{"id":2342,"date":"2022-06-17T10:17:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T10:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/17\/overwatch-2-is-getting-rid-of-loot-boxes-in-favour-of-a-battle-pass\/"},"modified":"2022-06-17T10:17:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T10:17:13","slug":"overwatch-2-is-getting-rid-of-loot-boxes-in-favour-of-a-battle-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/17\/overwatch-2-is-getting-rid-of-loot-boxes-in-favour-of-a-battle-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch 2 Is Getting Rid Of Loot Boxes In Favour Of A Battle Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Roadmap and new character announced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/overwatch_2\">Overwatch 2<\/a> finally secured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/blizzards-overwatch-2-launches-on-nintendo-switch-this-october\">a release date<\/a> earlier this week and official confirmation that the sequel to Blizzard&#8217;s hugely popular online shooter will be coming to Switch. Now Blizzard has revealed the game&#8217;s upcoming roadmap, along with some interesting changes, during a reveal event broadcast yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>On top of the news that Overwatch 2 will be going free-to-play for its PvP mode, Blizzard has now revealed that the sequel will no longer be using Loot Boxes, and will be replacing this with a Battle Pass and an in-game shop to ensure fans can choose from what&#8217;s on offer rather than rely on chance.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/overwatch-2-is-getting-rid-of-loot-boxes-in-favour-of-a-battle-pass\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Overwatch 2 Is Getting Rid Of Loot Boxes In Favour Of A Battle Pass<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Roadmap and new character announced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/overwatch_2\">Overwatch 2<\/a> finally secured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/blizzards-overwatch-2-launches-on-nintendo-switch-this-october\">a release date<\/a> earlier this week and official confirmation that the sequel to Blizzard&#8217;s hugely popular online shooter will be coming to Switch. Now Blizzard has revealed the game&#8217;s upcoming roadmap, along with some interesting changes, during a reveal event broadcast yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>On top of the news that Overwatch 2 will be going free-to-play for its PvP mode, Blizzard has now revealed that the sequel will no longer be using Loot Boxes, and will be replacing this with a Battle Pass and an in-game shop to ensure fans can choose from what&#8217;s on offer rather than rely on chance.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/overwatch-2-is-getting-rid-of-loot-boxes-in-favour-of-a-battle-pass\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}