30 New Player Icons...50+ items

So there are 30 new player icons.

If you throw these out the window, they made 31 new things…

9 Skins (If you hate sports…4)
1 Emote
2 Highlight Intros
6 Victory Poses
10 New Voicelines
3 New Sprays

Considering most people could care less about VL and Sprays

There are 18 new pieces of content. If you leave in everything, there are almost more player icons than actual items…WHY?

My theory is that they made this many icons just so they could say 50+ new items.

Edit: If you didn’t know, the past events have had very little when it comes to new PI…HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Edit2: The first summer games had 100+ new items not including PI, this one can barely break 50 with PI

Edit3: HALF THE ITEMS ARE ICONS. THERE ARE 31

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You’ve discovered the magical world of marketing.

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Fantastic marketing, and where to find it.

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It’s almost as if blizzard thinks we care about our player icons than how cool our new skins are xd. But for real what’s with the sudden massive increase in icons, seems a bit redundant.

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After waiting for 3 SGs, my country (who participated in all of OWWCs) finally got their flag. Thanks Blizzard for taking Argentina into account.

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Thanks for making this list for those working right now. 30 new player icons is a lot for one event. I would have to agree with you here.

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People beg for months after the summer games every time for more flags so I don’t blame them for throwing in more.

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True, but to make almost half of your new item’s being just player icons isn’t really that exciting, IMO anywho. I hardly see anyone here actively talk about them other than wanting to see their flag.

First time this event happened there were 150+ items.

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The worst thing are the voicelines…wasnt expecting such a letdown there. I guess future events wont be different.
Soooo disappointing.

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In an event that’s all about sports.

No, Blizzard added that many icons to increase the sale of loot boxes. A customer has to buy more loot boxes to get what he or she wants from the loot boxes. For example, if there was only 1 skin and 5 icons, then the probability would be 1/6 to get the skin. Furthermore, if Blizzard adds 5 more icons, then the new probability is now 1/11, which would decrease your probability of getting that skin with That’s why Blizzard added icons to lower the chances of people getting skins, emotes, highlight intros, and so forth.

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50 items doesn’t seems like much nowadays. If every hero gets 1 voice line, that is pretty much 28 items.

Also only 6 legendaries this time. I guess we can thank OWL for “stealing” 2 hero slots for the all-star weekend.

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And thus the ploy to increase lootbox sales begins. Er… continues.

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No. It doesnt make a difference if theres 1 million or 1 new icon,your chance to get a skin stays the same.

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Hopefully no one will buy LB this year…it would just be a waste of money.

I remember when you had to buy at least 100 to get everything. Now you can get 25

Sadly this is another situation where people have been asking for things for a long time and they finally put something in that has been requested and to make it easier to collect they put in fewer other items and now you have people both mad and happy about it. No matter what they do someone is going to be upset so I’ve taken to just accepting what they give for event items and being happy.

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That’s true, but you also get less currency from duplicates so adding more icons reduces your coin generations. On average, It takes me around 100-150 loot boxes before I started getting many repeat items on this account, which was made in October of last year.

You have to relize they could’ve made other content too. When the first SG came out here were all the items we got.

43 player icons
25 hero-exclusive sprays, and Two general sprays and 3 acheivement sprays
50 voice lines
19 skins
16 victory poses
5 highlight intros
4 emotes

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Not the best thing in the world, not everyone can drop money on boxes, so increasing coin generations is a lot more helpful than wasting money on 50 or so boxes.