How do you get OWL points from youtube?

Flaze-1616 · February 9, 2020, 10:01pm

How do points work this season? Can I watch on overwatchleague.com or do I have to be on youtube? and if so, how do I link my youtube?

anon53767189 · February 9, 2020, 10:02pm

Can’t atm, but they working on it

tornado7909-1821 · February 9, 2020, 10:02pm

I heard you have to link your battlenet to google, but that might not be true

Flaze-1616 · February 9, 2020, 10:03pm

How are the gonna start the season and not have rewards ready…amateurs.

MightyMogar-11880 · February 9, 2020, 10:04pm

They gave plenty of notice (qnd I’m pretty sure are basically spamming live chat every 5 or 10 minutes) that they are not giving out owl coins as rewards atm

Kaedi-11739 · February 9, 2020, 10:05pm

Tokens cannot be earned at this time. They are working on it but there is no timetable. If you want the Brigitte Skin you will need to purchase tokens if you don’t have leftovers from the 2019 season.

Additional information and full details here:

Flaze-1616 · February 9, 2020, 10:06pm

Well, no need to watch, i’ll just wait for the announcement

Hauven-2768 · February 9, 2020, 10:17pm

For now, you don’t. If and when incentivised viewing is back then the viewing figures will increase, I’m fairly certain. Whether they increase to their typical average is another question though.

KaKao-2675 · February 9, 2020, 10:20pm

ofc they’re “working on it”, lol.

They want you to open up your wallet.
Now go be a good whale and spend your cash.

Save-21881 · February 9, 2020, 10:33pm

Yeah I also call BS on this. YouTube already has a drop system for Fortnite, so it should be easy for them to enable drops for the Overwatch League aswell.

They are not enabling it just yet because Blizzard obviously wants to test the waters and see how much money they can get from the Goat Brigitte skin without the drop system enabled.

Kallocain-21738 · February 9, 2020, 10:34pm

they also want viewers.

Flaze-1616 · February 9, 2020, 11:42pm

Fortunately, I’d saved up points and was able to grab the Brig skin

Moira-21906 · February 9, 2020, 11:43pm

you mean a fabricated viewer count because those people will have it minimized and muted to farm the tokens

Goldlantern-1543 · February 9, 2020, 11:44pm

They did just close the deal last month. They’ll get it, though.

xerox8521-2734 · February 9, 2020, 11:47pm

Btw do you know if you can still gain tokens from watching ingame ?

Kallocain-21738 · February 10, 2020, 7:28am

Advertisers don’t need to know

Kaedi-11739 · February 10, 2020, 10:26am

There never has been a way to earn tokens directly through any game client. Tokens could only be earned by watching the live streams.

Gunakor-1940 · February 10, 2020, 10:27am

Token drops weren’t enabled on Twitch at the very start of season 1 either. They became available for stage 2 IIRC.

xerox8521-2734 · February 10, 2020, 10:53am

hmm I actually thought you could also gain tokens from watching ingame. Well thats a rip then. Thanks

Kaedi-11739 · February 10, 2020, 11:08am

It used to work that one could earn tokens from watching the embedded viewer on the BattleNet app launcher, OverwatchLeague.com, and the OverwatchLeague App, but this still was done through Twitch’s drop system (even if you did not directly link your Twitch account). As such since the move to YouTube, even these platforms are not working.