{"id":129362,"date":"2022-11-01T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-140227"},"modified":"2022-11-01T04:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T04:25:00","slug":"overwatch-2-wants-to-know-what-players-think-about-its-store-battle-pass-microtransactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/01\/overwatch-2-wants-to-know-what-players-think-about-its-store-battle-pass-microtransactions\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch 2 Wants To Know What Players Think About Its Store, Battle Pass &amp; Microtransactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7c7da261f3e86\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7c7da261f3e86\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Overwatch 2\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7c7da261f3e86\/overwatch-2.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7c7da261f3e86\/overwatch-2.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Overwatch 2\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Blizzard<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/overwatch_2\">Overwatch 2<\/a> launched as a free-to-play title last month, and it&#8217;s not been the smoothest rollout. There were errors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/overwatch-2-servers-hit-by-mass-ddos-attack-on-launch-day\">reports of mass DDoS attacks<\/a> and concerns raised about unlockables being secured behind a paywall. Blizzard even went to the extent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/blizzard-apologises-to-overwatch-2-players-for-launch-issues\">apologising to players for these launch issues with some free rewards<\/a> and said it would &#8220;continue to listen&#8221; to the community.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, Overwatch 2 players seem to now be getting sent surveys. According to one post on game&#8217;s subreddit, this survey focuses a lot on the game&#8217;s Battle Pass as well as the Overwatch store, which is filled with cosmetic microtransactions and more.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-oembed\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Overwatch\/comments\/yg8tha\/blizzard_survey\/ @ 2022-11-01T04:26:56+00:00 --> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-card\"><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Overwatch\/comments\/yg8tha\/blizzard_survey\/?ref_source=embed&amp;ref=share\">Blizzard Survey<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Overwatch\/\">Overwatch<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>One user in the same thread, who also received the survey, said they provided an &#8220;honest&#8221; response in hope of adjustments:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>vcrshark &#8211; &#8220;I got it and filled it out. I tried to be critical but honest since I was worried they\u2019d toss responses that were \u201ctoo angry.\u201d Hopefully this signals they\u2019re willing to adjust things but I have no idea at this point. The handling of this game has been disappointing (to say the least) so far.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/overwatch-2-survey-microtransactions-battle-pass\/\">Other reports<\/a> suggest Blizzard has also been targeting players based on specific purchases in-game, with one user mentioning how they had been contacted after purchasing the game&#8217;s Watchpoint Pack.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com.ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:138900 @ 2022-11-01T04:34:00+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><!-- End Widget --><\/p>\n<p>Have you been playing Overwatch 2 on the Nintendo Switch? Have you made any real money purchases yet? <em>Comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Blizzard Overwatch 2 launched as a free-to-play title last month, and it&#8217;s not been the smoothest rollout. There were errors, reports of mass DDoS attacks and concerns raised about unlockables being secured behind a paywall. Blizzard even went to the extent of apologising to players for these launch issues with some free rewards and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}