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Article gives zero reasons. I'll add my opinion. Newness factor. Not having the meta settled, the lack of map knowledge, etc. Just all the things that circle the "new" of such a game drives the folks at the moment. It's got the feel of early OW when you just picked your person, got on a map, and did the objective not really knowing anything.
It's yet to see how the balance patching goes for the game and how new characters for the game go. I'll say the game does one thing out the gate better than OW2 and that's the reduced FOMO in the game related to battle pass. You buy the battle pass, you have infinite time to complete it. Now you can't sit the fence on if to buy the BP or not, hence my "reduced FOMO", but this is one of those things they've started doing in a lot of other games like Halo and what not, and it's something that I think Blizzard should do for OW. But I don't think that alone is going to turn the tide massively.
But I will say that Rivals and OW2 are absolutely proving the F2P is here to stay as a model for games. So I really think those in the OW community who were salty about OW2 swapping over have basically lost the war on the topic.
Again, all my 2¢, and I'm not claiming to be some scion of knowledge in the gaming industry. Just letting you know my feels.
I'm still salty that the game that I paid for was deleted and removed from my account and swapped for other similar game named OW2.
I mean, whether f2p would contiue wasn't really ever in question. Its been a successful model for multiplayer for a decade. The question is more in how abusive monitization can be before players will move to competition or leave. Hopefully this shows that players are eager to jump ship (or at least move to competition) when the monitization is as bad as OW2.