I wish Overwatch had flopped sales-wise

[Burning Typhoon]

When I was a kid, I didn't have access to my parents funds. That makes no sense to me and is a part of irresponsible parenting.
The OP is just looking to throw blame at overwatch, because it's popular, and will ignore anything that doesn't support his argument. We all know overwatch did nothing first, from leaving out single player, to having micro-transactions, or anything else.

It did not in any way pioneer a path for other companies to follow suite. Overwatch gives you the opportunity to get everything in the game, outside of 3, or 4 costumes completely free. Overwatch is profitable, and makes a lot of money, and with several evens happening throughout the year, along with the regular release of new characters and stages, it's clear that the money is going back into the game.

There's tons of games that don't give out DLC characters and stages for free.

Overwatch isn't even obligated to give it's extra content away for free. It could have all it's content behind paywalls, and charge a monthly subscription to play the game.

What has happened are big companies moving to the cell phone market because fewer and fewer companies want to spend big money on a project that could fail. Especially if it's a new concept. But, that's fine. Have fun with your endless sequels, and blame overwatch for a cell phone strategy that it, on its own, had nothing to do with. You'll still have to suffer the consequences regardless of taking blame at overwatch or not. It's just the biggest thing you have to point your fingers at. But because of the cell-phone structure of being cheaper to create, and filled with microtransactions, it would have crossed over anyway as a means to suppliment the growing costs of games.

Everyone's defending overwatch, though. Maybe there's a serious flaw in your thinking. You know what I did? I bought the singular pink mercy skin on the day of the release. I didn't care that it was 15 dollars. I've also bought lootboxes too if I don't get what I want near the end of the event. If it saves me time, and hassle, or having to wait an entire year to get, it's my money and I can decide if it's worth it.

If anyone has an issue with that, then you can wait until the government steps in, and tell these companies what they can and can't do, because obviously the true adult is not the individual, but the government.