I’ve tried to get a lot of friends into Overwatch but the main thing that puts them off wanting to play is not being able to play some of the heroes without grinding heaps/paying to unlock them.
In a game like Overwatch where team compositions/certain picks are sometimes crucial to winning games, *no* heroes should be locked. It is straight up not fair.
One team could lose a game for no other reason than they weren’t able to pick a certain hero when the other team was able to pick that hero.
Also, a bunch of heroes that I consider to be the best/crucial picks are locked. Kiriko for cleanse. Lifeweaver for mass heals. Rammatra for smashing through shields. *All* of these are locked.
With all of the major announcements they made at Blizzcon, it is insane that one of them wasn’t the removal of the locks on heroes.
*All heroes should be unlocked from the get-go, full stop.*
I don’t think you should be hyping up team composition and counter switching that much to someone which doesn’t have the heroes to do those things. Let people learn how the heroes work then talk about that. If I lost a game when I started out and someone said “it’s not your fault, you just didn’t have the right heroes yet” that will just make me feel bad because I’m at a disadvantage. Not just because I’m already less skilled due to starting out but also because don’t have everything I supposedly need to do well. Take it slowly