“We understand that this year’s Lunar New Year event doesn’t have the number of Legendary skins as previous events. The Skins team is hard at work—with more Legendary Skins planned in 2022 than any year prior. We’ll share more with players on this topic throughout the year.”
https://dotesports.com/overwatch/news/overwatchs-2022-lunar-new-year-event-is-live
If we are now getting less skins - most certainly because they are working on skins for OW2 - then 2022 having more skins planned than ever before can only mean a 2022 release, right?
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my guess is another lootbox update with a legendary for everyone because I dont see any other way they’ll release more legendaries than any year prior
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They may have just recently realigned their projects as they know once the Microsoft transaction goes through they will have more resources. So they might now be focusing on keeping interest till they get more help. This might even mean rethinking a hero release before OW2.
More like you’ll have to keep the OWL stream muted in a separate tab longer than usual to farm points because that’s where your legendary skins are gonna be.
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I don’t think OW2 is fully releasing in 2022. But my prediction of what the content creators saw is that an assortment of changes previously being reserved for OW2 are being patched into the base game this year. If that includes a lot of legendary skins, maybe something like a battle pass is coming.
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Cut free content to sell it later… kinda makes sense 
Wonder what rushing them to release OW2… looking at Bobby and Microsoft… oh yeah.
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