Overwatch 2 Survey Asks Players If They're Willing to Spend $45 on a Character Skin & More

Blizzard has sent out an Overwatch 2 survey asking players if they're willing to spend $45 on a mythic character skin, $10 for a weapon charm and more.

[Jin_Sakai]

I can only imagine how many selected “Yes”

[VenomCarnage89]

A pathetic percentage for sure

[vTuro24]

No matter what the number is, if it's above 0% then it's too high.

[outsider1624]

I rather pay a full game on sale at that price. Just curious though, what kind of skin would that be to cost 45$.

[Epicor]

I think most of us would rather pay the full retail price. But F2P is here to stay unfortunately. People need to stop romanticising gaming companies: They are not your friends! Not Activision, not Epic, not even your beloved Ms, Sony nor Nintendo. They all try to maximize their profits. Games which require constant updates are simply not profitable to support if only one retail payment is received. They want a steady cash flow. Big chunk of players won't spend anything or only something like max $20 during the lifetime of a game. But a significant amount will buy every battle pass and some extra cosmetics on top. That's probably $80 - $120 during the lifetime of a game. Then there are the "whales", around 3-5% of gamers who spend A LOT! This combined with the fact that F2P attracts a lot of new players (the pull) and one can guarantee that this model makes more money than standard retail price one-time fee for a game like OW2.

[Mobis-New-Nest]

I'll pay $45.00 when the game is running 8K resolution. 120 frames locked, 15 hour offline campaign, dedicated fast servers and no season pass. Free DLC weekly, fast patching to stop online players from taking advantage of glitches and lastly your voice actors need to be Hollywood Actors like Christian Bale, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Angelina Jolie, Chris Pratt, Robert Downey Junior, Liam Neeson, Toby McGuire, Leonardo Decaprio and Al Pacino. All that is definitely worth $45. Make It Happen!!!

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Gotta have Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro while you're at it

[-Foxtrot]

Jesus

[DeathTouch]

45 on a skin… on a first person game… yikes

[excaliburps]

Yep. I really, really hope people said no to this. But I am not optimistic given how the trend is these days.

[blackblades]

Well technically its not 100% 1st person, you can see 3rd person doing doing emotes or whatever etc but yeah $45 on skin is a WTF no game has done that unless it was a bundle

[just_looken]

Well 2042 has $20 skins right now very popular and they come with fake thermal/night vision specs. Or bundles with weapon skins and a knife for $30 prices in screen shots all subject to tax.

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Monkey see monkey do they just want turn the dial up.

[Yi-Long]

I just can’t any more with these companies. I really can’t.

Make a great game that people love to play, sell that, make money, everyone is happy. It’s simple.

But here they are now, far more occupied about monetizing absolutely everything in the experience, and then wondering why the public shrugs at their products and hates them.

The suits in charge are so filled with greed that it harms their own products to the point that it’s harming the industry.

[DeputyB]

Shitty thing is, if it was all a reasonable price, say 5-10$ MAX! I would buy skins I like without a problem, but fuck me when they decide to pull shit like this it makes we glad it'll be FTP and that they won't see a dime of my money.

[sourOG]

You get a whole character for 5 dollars in mk lol. 5-10 dollars for one skin is kinda crazy to me. That’s greed, maximize the willing.

45 dollars? These are not serious people. You can’t even blame that on greed lol.. I think they just aren’t too bright honestly. They are throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.

[Epicor]

Personally I absolutely hate F2P model as a consumer. You end up getting only core experience for free and end up paying micro transactions if you want to have the full experience. Can we call these even micro transactions anymore? They are just pure transactions of significant amount of money. Companies use F2P model because it's more profitable. It's okay for them not to make money out of big portion of players if significant portion end up paying. Then there's like 3% of player base who pay A LOT!

[senorfartcushion]

It’s crazy how much goes in to monetisation now during the pitching stages. You can’t get a yes unless you pitch with how much it’s going to make from MTX after the game starts selling.

[1nsomniac]

Welcome to capitalism. What do you expect? It doesn’t just end when they make profit. Capitalism will always mean “…yes, but how much MORE profit can we make” - that’s what capitalism is! The majority of people don’t seem to be able to grasp the understanding of that.

[annoyedgamer]

I blame the consoomers. They wouldn't sell this if idiots wouldn't buy it. But here we are.

[Npugz7]

Are they on crack!

[Snookies12]

It's Blizzard, so... It wouldn't surprise me.

[badz149]

did you forget how much they are making on Diablo Immortal? now anything less will be a disappointment for them

[AngainorG7X]

That's the cancer right there. And I'm not talking about the question, I'm talking about the answers..

[Muigi]

They’ll just give that same amount to their favorite streamer for a 2 second shoutout lol.

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

Surveys are meant to capture ALL options.

$45 was certainly on one end of a sliding scale of sorts…. But that’s it. They won’t cost $45.

Pricing is a very difficult part of any business. Finding out the highest amount everyone is willing to pay is part of the marketing process.

Surveys never ever telegraph intentions of companies that clearly.

[Servbot41]

"They won’t cost $45" I'll see you in a year tops.

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

You just don’t understand how marketing works. Sure, if 50% select $45, the devs would happily set that as the price.

But, the $45 option there is more of an extreme option on a Goldie Locks spectrum.

It’s basic survey design. If they really wanted to price skins at $45, then it would be a middle option, and they would’ve had an even higher option, like $90.

[outsider1624]

What's the lowest?

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

Great question, you get bit.

[badz149]

$44.99

[CorndogBurglar]

What you're saying is 100% true and anyone that has taken a basic marketing class knows this.

But I think the problem here isn't the $45. It's the fact that they shouldn't be charging for this crap to begin with.

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

But it’s F2P, that’s the trade off.

[CorndogBurglar]

"But it’s F2P, that’s the trade off."

Fair enough. Except the problem with F2P games is that they almost all end up milking the players for every little bit. Is it possible to not spend anything on them? Sometimes. But the grind is usually so ridiculous that you pretty much need to pay for things. Most players that stick with F2P games end up spending WAY more than the price of an actual game before its all said and done.

[Noskypeno]

It's like those stores at the mall that say 50% off this weekend only but then you go back a week later and it's still on sale. A lot of stuff have a price tag that will never sell at that price to give the person shopping that day that might only shop once a month, thinking they are getting a great deal. This is something similar, like "this is worth 45$ but if you buy right now it's 20$, you might not get this offer ever again so don't delay"

[DeputyB]

LMAO wtf kind of question is this! Whoever says yes is fucking retarded.

[DannyVIP]

Damn that's crazy 😂😂😂 I'm not even going to download it now.

[Hikoran]

Trust me I'm not even willing to fork out £60 for the base game, let alone a skin

[PapaBop]

Man how Blizzard have fallen.. thanks Activision! 45 for a skin? 10 for a weapon charm? An absolute far cry from their glory days.

[HeliosHex]

This just means they will indeed release 45 dollar skins and 10 charms. It is after all optional. So of course a few schmucks will indeed buy these things. They only asking to prepare players and ease it in nice and slow like you would a virgin.

[quenomamen]

My boys kid has spent to date around $400 in Fortnite on cosmetics so yea they can make it free to play and make it back on skins

[CobraKai]

I’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter.

[cerpintaxt44]

rip

[anast]

Keeps these articles coming, especially during game reviews.

[JayRyu]

No!
Period!

[LucidIllusion]

Retardation has become rampant in today's society.

[ChiefofLoliPolice]

Couldn't agree more.

[Knightofelemia]

A fool and their money

[frostypants]

Meanwhile, people complain that $35 for a 3rd party, fully modeled airliner add-on with complex subsystems for MS Flight Sim is too much.

[MontyeKristo]

Absolutely not. Never will. Won't do it. I don't even buy them at $5, not a chance in this cold dead world would I pay $45 for a SKIN... that other people will also have. If they were 1 of a kind.. I still wouldn't but it'd be more worth it.

I guess I still remember the old days where playing long enough or doing well enough, meant I could UNLOCK, not BUY, character skins. Shame.

[chobit_A5HL3Y]

i'm not even willing to spend 45 on the actual game itself.

[Elda]

One would think no one would agree to that price or any price above $1 for a skin.

[ApexWolf22]

Well COD has been selling $20 Skins for a few years now so this is just a natural progression. Makes you really miss the $15 map pack days….