Are people this deaf? OW2 is clearly coming in 2022

[GhengisJohn-1238]

@GreenTrotsky-1332

People are way too busy malding and losing their minds about “only two skins” to notice, but if a dev says they’re releasing more skins this year “than any other year”, it means that OW2 is 100% coming in 2022. Think it through please. Take a deep breath and hear the very loud hints they are dropping.

Uh my dude, but he didn’t say that, he said:

@AndyB-11735

While we know that we’re offering fewer Legendary skins with this year’s event, the Skins team is hard at work on new content, with more Legendary skins planned for retail than any year prior. We’ll be sharing more information on this throughout the year.

“We have more planned for retail” does not specify a year. I want to make it clear I am not staking a claim on you ultimately being right or wrong about what year the game comes out, but like, let us be clear about what was actually said. You could interpret this as skins being for sale, which I believe you are doing or you could interpret this as skins arriving with the retail launch of Overwatch 2 as in this sort of usage:

https://www.wepc.com/news/overwatch-2-retail-release-pricing/

But let us be very clear. He never said “this year”. In fact saying they’ll be “sharing details” with us “throughout the year” could make it sound like they’ll either drop these skins through the year or they’ll be sharing DETAILS and NOT skins in preparation for Overwatch 2’s retail release.

When have they ever referred to skins as being “for retail”? That phrasing is kind of peculiar don’t you think?

But again, I’m not saying you’re right or wrong, just maybe hold your horses there. You are inferring meaning on a statement that was intentionally vague. I was going to tell you that I don’t think they even know what they’re doing yet then I found THIS post while checking to make sure I didn’t miss something:

@AndyB-11735

When we use phrases like “throughout the year” it’s intentionally ambiguous as we’re not at a place where we’re ready to communicate firm schedules.

So yeah. Take a deep breath and maybe temper your expectations. Because if you don’t then it will hurt more if things don’t work out the way I’m sure we’re all hoping they will.