On October 25 by means of November 8, Overwatch 2 celebrates its first seasonal occasion since its debut earlier this month: The 2022 version of its yearly weeks-long Halloween Terror extravaganza. Like previous years, Halloween Terror will honor the vacation with new skins and a Junkenstein’s Revenge themed co-op competitors. However what is really scary about this 12 months’s Overwatch’s Halloween choices is that every one these previously free enticements at the moment are trapped behind an expensive battle move.
By way of restricted version cosmetics, which in earlier years had been unlocked by finishing competitions, Blizzard at the moment lists 10, bizarrely, “discounted” however paid-for bundles and skins at round $20 or 2,000 Overwatch Cash every, together with a Bride of Frankenstein pores and skin for Sombra, and heavy steel executioner pores and skin for Junker Queen. This 12 months’s occasion rewards are restricted to sprays and voice strains—there aren’t any reward skins in any respect.
Blizzard by no means mentioned this could be in any other case, essentially. Earlier than Overwatch 2 rolled out in September, the developer wrote clearly on its weblog that every installment of its nine-weeks-long seasonal mannequin can be tied on to “a brand new Battle Cross, each one with a novel theme and as much as 80+ unlockable tiers of cosmetics.”
But it surely feels totally different to learn one thing and to see it occur in observe, like being advised that your hire will improve after which receiving an bill and understanding, oh, your hire has elevated.
The costs are additionally complicated. Followers trying to purchase healer Kiriko’s witchy legendary pores and skin had been dissatisfied, first, by the truth that Blizzard listed the pores and skin as $26 or 2,600 Overwatch Cash, and second, that there isn’t a approach to purchase simply 600 Cash. So, to get closest to 2,600, you’ll need to spend $30 on 3,000 Cash. And, once more, regardless of the Halloween skins solely launching yesterday, the witch pores and skin can also be already listed at a 29% low cost, down from 3,700 Cash it was by no means really at.
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“Blizzard did nice with the Halloween occasion this 12 months,” the highest YouTube touch upon Overwatch 2’s Halloween trailer says, “the costs of the skins are going to be completely terrifying.”
“Halloween terror in overwatch this 12 months must be the most important rip-off blizzard ever made hahahah,” League of Legends professional Oskar “Selfmade” Boderek wrote on Twitter.
“That is the downfall of company America,” one impassioned, standard remark learn in an Overwatch Reddit thread discussing the shortage of free skins. All roads result in Overwatch.