What exactly is going on with Overwatch Legendary Edition?

[Pemalite]

Wyrdness said:

Pemalite said:

Definitely Anecdotal. I am also probably on a completely different continent... And Considering how sparsely populated said continent is... You don't get much more rural. - Yet fixed wireless, fiber to the node, ADSL, 3G/4G, Public Wifi and so on is a thing. - If your internet is limited, don't buy an online only game to start with.

I mean either way, at some point if you intend to run the Overwatch on your console, you will need to download the entire game irrespective of physical media eventually, Blizzard churns through it's datasets pretty often.
Yes a Physical copy is a good thing to have, especially for collectors like myself, but I understand Blizzards reasoning... Either way, It's not that big of a deal, just don't buy it, PC is all Digital, consoles are heading in that direction, the future is digital.

Again anecdotal you're asking why others have an issue not about yourself so your own situation is a moot point as this is an example of why they may do, people can buy what ever game they want as they manage their own situations being online only is not the issue it's the unexpected added hassle of still needing to download the current base game which is questionable.

You keep harping back to the patch argument when that doesn't debunk what people are saying they paid for a physical copy so that's what they're expecting and not just an empty box, eventually downloading all those patches for all we know will be months down the line so that in itself is not a good defence either because if the patches are monthly and come in at 1-2GB that's well manageable in how data plans work.

Unless you have expanded storage you will be installing/uninstalling games on Switch if you have a decently sized games library.
Thus you are likely going to have to do a fair chunk of downloading anyway.

Either way... I did state that not having a Physical copy sucks, but I also understand how quickly Overwatch gets updated considering I own multiple copies for multiple platforms...

Plus it's an online-only game... If Data is that important to you, don't buy an online-only game.