So how exactly are you affording these skins ?
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By playing the game, only spending in-game coins on the characters I enjoy, and by being able to control my irrational urges.
I’m by no means in the minimum wage category, but I can still recognize what practices are not worth spending money on.
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Minimum wage can easily net you north of 3k a month with a bit of overtime, combine that with low overhead if living with family or any number of living situations and you get disposable income
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Easy. All my income goes towards Kiriko skins.
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Great, so how many hours is he actually playing the game ?
Im just selective. For example, for the SF6 collab, I bought 1 skin, Cammi Widowmaker and 1 emote, Juno Flying Birdkick. Cost about $25. Very affordable, even on a budget. 
I make above min wage in my state, but I live in a Fed min wage state so does it really count? I can tell you now the hotly debated $15 Fed min wage hike would put me pennies above min wage, and if my state adopted a clause of needing to be more than a few cents higher than Fed requirements I’d be getting a raise.
Generally I don’t spend. I’ve purchased two whole skins with coins since OW2 launch, the 1 coin Bastion not included because I didn’t buy it. There’s a reason I play a number of gatchas beyond liking free gambling, they are free and ever expanding. Free is affordable provided you have the self control/impulse control to not try to buy waifus/husbandos. They are expensive, like house payment tier expense, not something someone living off of microwaved Maruchan and PB+Js should be tempted to spend on. OW skins are waifus/husbandos minus the gambling, but still too expensive. I could buy some nice fruit or meat with that kinda money.
Thanks for your honesty.
So do you buy the battle pass ?
Fun fact: you don’t need to buy a single skin to enjoy this game.
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I buy the Battlepass too. Every season.
If you are able to afford battle pass skin + money to buy skins then you are not in minim wage.
For context this is what a minimum wage worker earns in a month as per data.
- Monthly income (minimum wage, full-time): ~$1,160
Here’s the secret.
Farm gold in WoW. Use that gold on the Auction House to buy WoW tokens. The WoW token is redeemed as Battle.net balance. You can then use that balance to buy items across any blizzard game. I’ve know people to who are really good at farming to use this method to buy diablo when it came out.
TLDR: Play WoW, Get Skins
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I haven’t worked for minimum wage since the 90s.
Even though now I make 8 times that amount I still don’t buy skins with my hard earned money.
I got plenty of free skins from playing ow 1 and earning them all for free.
I don’t use all my free skins, so why would I ever spend actually money on new skins I don’t need or would rarely use?
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Very, very few people are out here making 7.50 and working full time except maybe tip jobs and people who make money off commission, with some rare exceptions. Walmart, the bottom of the bottom of the barrel for unskilled labor, in even the most broke, down bad, American flyover state, pays $14 an hour at the minimum. Amazon pays $15, $21 where I live. I’d be genuinely surprised if you find someone making 7.50 an hour, in the US in this thread. Pulling this number out of my behind but I’d guess like 1%~ of hourly workers are pulling that kind of wage.
If someone is actually working 40 hour weeks and making only a thousand a month, they probably have no business spending a cent of that check on overwatch skins.
Between jobs right now.
Only use currency i’ve farmed from past battle passes and actually think about the “will i actually equip and use this skin?” Question before buying any of them.
And you can buy 1 BP every 2, easy really.
Last year, I was on minimum wage as I was on unemployment. I could definitely buy both the BP and a skin. I live a pretty simple life so my monthly expenses are pretty low.
But then you don’t have time for playing, do you?
More than a bit. Minimum wage in the US is $7.25 an hour or $290 a week or approximately $1160 a month. The amount you would need to work to make triple that is about 100 hours a week. If you are working that much Overwatch is the least of your concerned because you dont have time.
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Who’s working for that kind of money? No one is actually making actual 7 dollar minimum wage like that, if they are then they need to go work for McDonald’s and double their income because McDonald’s pays twice that in any state. Sure I’m in California but I would make 4000 a month working at actual Amazon doing optional 55 hour weeks of the most brainless work and still have time to relax and enjoy life and play some games.
How’s someone making one thousand a month, paying bills, rent, and buying groceries even going to be able to afford a computer to play on? let’s ask that before we ask how they’ll find the money for overwatch skins.
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