Overwatch 2’s Halloween-infused seventh season, Rise of Darkness, went stay on Monday, bringing with it a swath of creepy new skins for its heroes, together with a hotly anticipated pores and skin primarily based on Diablo IV’s Lilith for sardonic healer Moira. Sadly, gamers who eagerly dived into the season for an opportunity to amass Moira’s devilishly good pores and skin now really feel like its existence is a price-gouging trick moderately than a deal with due to its hefty value and paywalled availability.
You see, Lilith Moira can solely be unlocked by buying the sport’s Final Battle Cross: Season Seven Bundle which prices $40. Final season’s Premium Battle Cross additionally value $40, however not less than that one got here with three new story missions. Often, OW2 skins will be acquired by finishing ranges in its Battle Cross however the Lilith Moira pores and skin, in addition to Pharah’s Legendary Inarius pores and skin and Bastion’s Epic Pumpkin pores and skin, can solely be acquired by buying the Final Battle Cross. Lilith Moira’s price ticket isn’t going over nicely with followers who see the bundle as yet one more instance of Blizzard fleecing gamers for brand new skins.
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“Informal reminder that Overwatch, the ENTIRE GAME was $40 on launch,” Arenyr wrote in a r/Overwatch thread. “Now we’re paying that quantity for a few skins and a Battle Cross.”
“Blizzard is so fucking gross for this,” Drewboy13 replied in the identical thread. “Not solely is all the pieces so crazily overpriced, it’s additionally paywalled and locked behind much more costly bundles.”
“I believed the one motive the earlier season’s Final Bundle was $40 was because of the Invasion ‘marketing campaign missions’ in addition to the truth that you bought three legendary skins,” LeKrahka mentioned. “Truly bonkers.”
“I’d moderately purchase a pleasant sport on sale or on the similar worth with out a sale than a disgustingly overpriced pack,’ Sharashaska mentioned. “Each time they’ve the chance to be respectable they fail and make the shittiest choice potential concerning their customers.”
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Final August, Blizzard despatched out a survey asking gamers in the event that they’d be keen to pay $45 for brand new hero skins. On the time, a Blizzard spokesperson advised Kotaku the survey was “totally meant to raised perceive participant preferences for various kinds of Overwatch 2 cosmetics” and costs supplied in it have been “randomized per person and usually are not indicative of ultimate pricing.” I suppose Blizzard’s survey led to the conclusion that Moira mains like myself can be keen to pay $40 to get the assist hero a great pores and skin that wasn’t her David Bowie-inspired one from 2017. I’m going to stay with the Bowie one.