Impossible to earn OWL tokens with switch to Youtube

This is more of a complaint about how currently OWL has switched to Youtube and there is now NO possible way to earn tokens while watching. Also a limited time only skin (Brigitte goat) has been released with no way to earn tokens to possibly buy it. Either people have previous tokens saved up or actual money is used to purchase it. I find this incredibly unfair, especially to those who do not have the means or refuse to use real money on a skin that’s OWL exclusive. Surely I can’t be the only one who feels so cheated here.

When will tokens be able to be earned on Youtube? Will the Brigitte Goat skin time limit be extended?

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I have the same frustration. I already paid $40 for the game, I’m not paying another $10 just for a skin. And I’m certainly not going to give Blizzard or YouTube free revenue from me watching OWL, so I refuse to watch as well. Next move for me is uninstalling if they truly screw us on the Bridget skin. I’ve been looking for a reason to stop playing, I certainly found it here.

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Welp, it propably depends on yt more than overwatch. Even if they get money from you buying tokens, i belive they care more about views, so mayby so OWL would like to give those out, but i think yt have no way to do so. And no one knows how they gona resolve that.

Lol, they are so desperate to have people watch this trash. Esports were a mistake.

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If not being able to get a cosmetic skin for free causes you to quit, you were playing for the wrong reasons and should leave.

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It does seem that tokens are coming back at some point. Youtube and OWL haven’t just set them up yet. How long that will take is another question entirely.

And yeah, I don’t see a single skin (in a 1st person game to boot, where I can’t see it most of the time) to be worth that kind of price. If I can spend some time to get that, okay. I have too much of that on my hands anyway, and I kind of like the Goat skin. But paying half a week’s meals’ worth? Nope.

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Brigitte is one of my fave characters and I’d been waiting for a really special skin for her. I was very lucky to have had over 200 tokens saved up from the last time OWL streamed on Twitch, so I could get it no problem - but I would never evr pay real money for a skin. I just feel so angry about all the people who can’t get this skin. It might sound really silly but I feel it’s so unfair to release it while there’s no way to earn tokens.

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Yeah I’m not happy about not getting tokens too…hope they fix it somehow soon…

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I play to waste time, not to pay more. I can do that with any game.

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There is no time frame but we do know that they are trying to work to find a way to make this happen. As always tokens are available to purchase on your game platform store. please keep an eye on this thread for updates regarding rewards watching Overwatch League this season:

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I was actually thinking of watching until I heard you can’t get tokens anymore.

I apologize. I didn’t realize you couldn’t waste time in Overwatch without the Brigitte Goat skin. I hope whatever other game you leave Overwatch for works out better for you.

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Doesn’t sound like you were watching before either…

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if you don’t want to pay for something nobody is obligated to provide you an alternative method to acquire it. What kind of weird logic is that?

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That’s what I said…

Read what I was replying to…doesn’t sound like you’ve ever actually watched…so not entirely sure why blizz should care that you can’t get tokens honestly

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So you’re saying you don’t watch anything on youtube then unless you’re profiting from it?

I will be honest I will watch the full games and March if there was tokens but since there isn’t i just saw the Toronto and Dallas games that’s it. There was no reason for me to continue watching.

It’s definitely fair, don’t whine too hard now

I understand being disappointed about the switch, but don’t argue about fairness because that’s irrelevant

Not watching unless it gives drops. And even then I don’t really care that much. I prefer watching amateur streamers anyway.