Q: What will happen to lootboxes and the current currencies (credits, owl tokens, competitive points) once Overwatch 2 goes live? Will they just disappear?
J-Specs: Thanks for your question! We’ll share a more detailed explanation on all of these topics before Overwatch 2 goes live in October. To give you a quick answer now though, those existing currencies (credits, OWL tokens, and competitive points) will come with you into Overwatch 2. We are not transitioning loot boxes into Overwatch 2, and ahead of launch, any unopened loot boxes will be automatically opened with your account receiving all the contents directly.
now please no more “what about my morbillion credits and eight hundred lootboxes? They’re just gonna disappear? My family will starve!” threads
I don’t think we have confirmation that that is a new type of currency yet. I imagine it is and that it is the money you buy with money, but that’s still not confirmed right?
OW1 credits come with you to OW2, but our new virtual currency will be the main currency, and there will be things in OW2 that will not be purchasable with those OW1 credits.
This was already obvious. But it is heavily implied that all those credits won’t be spendable on anything in OW2. They will only be spendable on OW1 stuff. So they are effectively useless to people that have everything.
Its nice that they will transfer but the question remains: what can we do with them there? Buy old skins and gold weapons? Conversion to new currency? No one knows. But its a good thing that they dont just evaporate.
I mean… assuming you like cosmetics kinda? The real issue is Blizzard doesn’t really release anything any more. The basic loot box hasn’t been updated in like 3 or 4 years outside of new hero junk skins.
Event skins, if they are any good come out once every few months, and recent ones have been cheap pallet swaps or just down grades in general. Legendary lack unique voice lines and such.
Most the best skins are earned through owl tokens, aka not playing the game…
The points aren’t really the problem, it’s that Blizzard can’t make content for their own game. Not sure OW2 will really solve that.
I’m just shy of 500,000 OW1 credits/coins. So I really need to know the full extent of what we can expect. I’m mainly keeping an eye out for any sort of info regarding conversion(s).
Yeah I imagine the gallery will remain the same and credits will still be used there. There may also be daily challenges that will earn you credits. As for how often things that cost credits will be added if at all, who knows?
New currency will be used for premium purchases, such as store skins and battlepasses. It will essentially be how a game like Apex works
