Offtopic but I can see there being a competitive starter pack with relevant unlocks being available free/cheap on the store/a reward for playing x matchmaking games or whatever. Although I wouldn't count on valve just accepting the current meta unlocks as the essentials but rather encourage players to use various/broken unlocks as they said they're trying to use matchmaking to gather balancing data.

You play mge to practice the skills you're not already practicing from playing tf2 the entire day, every day. People always seem to think people who MGE don't actually play the game.

Yes, they even gave him a name; this makes no sense, his lore page needs to be rewritten now?

Also lol@blizzard mocking their customers at the end of the trailer

Not too afraid of the skins, but I think there will be an option to deactivate them.

Wat, did they just reveal reaper before the game even launched?
Lmao Blizzard, what are you doing?
Also agree, the skins could be terribly confusing once there are more heroes in the game. They're not as identifiable as tf2 characters. Maybe they'll be optionally deactivateable clientside.

People who refuse to play the needed classes will probably just lose a lot and stay in elo hell, while decent players move up to a level where teams communicate pre-game and people actually get to play their mains.

Why would they give a date exact to the day if they actually plan to release several months earlier?

End of June is so not spring though

40$->40€ ( ͡°╭╮ ͡°)
Release in 7 months

Edit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4hB88uMY8k

Icewall looks sick

There is nothing wrong with paying for the game. People worked to make the game. If the base game is good, it's okay to pay for it. If the bonus content is good, it's okay to pay for it. If either of them isn't, it's okay to not buy it. Don't see the problem there.

You're right, I remembered the store being in much longer than it actually was. Points still stand though.

I'm not criticizing anybody's decision not to buy the game, your finances are your business of course, but I'm confused why people are surprised and even upset by a game being sold at a regular price. 40$ isn't a high price, it's cheap for a video game. I can't see that having any effect on the competitive community. The amount of money a competitive player dumps into electricity alone to practice their game dwarfs that. If there is serious interest in a game by players who compete for money, a 40$ one-time purchase shouldn't be something to hold them back.
As for microtransactions, as long as it's cosmetics/unlock of heroes that you can get with non-grindy amounts of play, I couldn't care less.

Tf2 was a paid game with microtransactions for almost 4 years.

What? If you don't like the story in a story-based game, that's it. If you don't like the platforming in a platformer game, that's it. If you don't like the puzzles in a puzzle game, that's it. If you don't like the multiplayer in a multiplayer game, that's it. That argument doesn't make any sense. If you don't like a game, you wasted your money on it, regardless of what game it is. I don't think Portuguese people are more inherently thrifty than anyone else either, lol.

I don't at all understand the objections against Blizzard selling a video game at a price at which video games are normally sold at. If anything, 40$ is cheap.

By that logic, there's barely any reason to purchase any new game. There's always an older, similar game out that's cheaper or free.

Why would you not pay 40$ for a multiplayer game that can (potentially) give you tens of thousands of hours worth of gameplay as opposed to paying 60-70 for a 30 hour singleplayer game?

I wonder where all you guys are getting your valve intel from that allows you to have such confident predictions about a game mode of which nothing has been announced.

Worst case, you can still look forward to skillfully outplaying people with crit cola/candy cane wombo combos