The cost of entertainment.

I’ve noticed a lot of people bitching about the cost of Overwatch. Even the cheapest purchase option available, the one that I went for, is getting flak for being too pricey for what you get.
I think people are either feeling a bit too entitled or they’re not seeing the value of the product.

I measure entertainment in time, and I measure entertainment time in cinema tickets. A cinema ticket will buy you, on average, between 1.5 and 2 hours of entertainment. Average cinema ticket in my neck of the woods is between £7 and £10.
Using that as a base, a Triple-A video game that costs about £60 should offer at least 12 hours entertainment for it to be considered good value.
Overwatch only cost me £30. I’ve played it for waaaay more than 6 hours so far and Blizzard have said that new maps and characters will be added at no extra cost.
I don’t see any of that as bad.

Keep all that in mind before you kick up a stink about having to pay for something. If you enjoy a product, then damn well support it. The whole “I want it but I’m not going to pay for it” attitude people seem to have will cripple creative’s ability to make a profit one day. No profit, no product.