Lunar New Year and Mei

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Someone asked this question once and I couldn’t find a proper, or at least, a satisfying answer to it. So I’m hoping this community can provide some insight to this.

Why didn’t Mei get a legendary skin for this event, you know, the Lunar New Year, the Chinese New year, the ONLY Chinese Hero? The one person who, understandably, would be the center focus of the event. But Mercy, the Swiss Heroine, the ethnical opposite of this entire event, got a legendary skin. Am I, like, missing something here? Is there an unrelease, upcoming, legendary Mei skin that’s being hidden from the public until it drops?

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Zhongguo
Hu Tou Mao
Chang’e
Luna

maybe because she already has 4 skins for it?
and 2 that were specifically released for the Lunar New year.

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there are more mercy mains than mei players, and mercy mains are more likely to spend money into the game

its purely for profit, its ironic mercy got a thai skin before lifeweaver

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I dont think you can see all those skins when you inspect mei and go to her skins selection. Good point tho bc she does have 2 Lunar New Year skins

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Just for fun, I wanted to count the skins.

Mei

  1. Rare = 4
  2. Epic = 8
  3. Legendary = 18
    Total = 30

Mercy

  1. Rare = 4
  2. Epic = 11
  3. Legndary = 20
    Total = 35

Difference = 5
3 epics & 2 legendaries

looks at 30 skins for Mercy
… I:

I got the skin & numbers from here:
https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/Mei/Cosmetics

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Because since they removed Mei’s freeze no-one cares about her, she is a non-character.

Also because since their game died they are operating on a much more limited budget and so can’t just do skins when they feel like it.

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Which is great and all, but how is this event completely ignoring the sole Chinese heroine as if this isn’t a part of her culture as well? While Wifeweaver just…Doesn’t get the thai-mythos skin, the only Thai hero, the… Place where that specific mythology is from, excuse me? I thought Overwatch was about representation, but both asian heroes/heroine are being pushed to the sideline?

That’s like, if Overwatch celebrated el Día de los Muertos but instead of giving Sombra a legendary skin or making her the poster for the event, Sigma gets it and becomes the poster instead.

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My only guess is they either: They feel she didn’t need another. They didn’t have one planned. Or they plan on doing another one later. But who knows.

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…Mei has 4 skins already for the Lunar New Year. Do you expect her to get a new one each year???

It’s not like this is the first time they’ve given other characters Lunar New Years Skins…

(This also isn’t the first Mercy Lunar New Year Skin, lol)

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Yeah, I expected the Chinese character to be the face of the Chinese event, because, she’s Chinese. So, yeah

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Because it’s not really “chinese” new year, the west just calls it that. It’s Lunar new year. and honestly she’s pretty saturated with them already.

Gung Hee Fat Choy yall.

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I mean, that’s a valid reason. It still leaves a bad taste in my mouth that the two heroes/heroine who this event definitely should’ve/could’ve focused on just got ignored

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Mei is in the event, she’s the narrator.

Why does the event and content have to be centered around Mei?

Why are you expecting more when she already has 4 skins - like I said, do you expect her to get a new Lunar New Year skin every year? She’s more than her nationality.

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I do want to be transparent to mention that I’m not Chinese so I don’t want to come off as if I’m saying Mei’s entire purpose is to just be, “That one Chinese Character”, but that I expected her to have a more prominent role in the event, even more so that the first Thai Hero didn’t get the Thai-mythos inspired skin. To me, personally, it seemed weird and off.

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This is the 2nd time you have avoided answering my question.

Why do you keep doing that?

Which is contradicted by

…
Why does she need a prominent role?

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Thats nice that you’re concerned about representation for a cultural celebration, but I gotta say that as someone who lives where it’s widely celebrated, it’s more about inclusivity and celebration than needing to be an ethnicity to participate. Have a mooncake and a sesame candy, sit back and watch the lion dance, scare off some bad luck and evil spirits with some fireworks and ring in the “new year”.

The Chinese community thanks you for your concern, but we’re good.

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If this was one of your mains would you be asking the same of them?
Here’s how I look at, All Blizzard’s PR talking about “diversity” and “Culture” and they yet they have other heroes celebrate Chinese culture while the one actual Chinese hero, seems like an after thought in fact her year of the bunny is just her usual suit colored red and she’s given a cute hat, Plus wasn’t the talk about Mei getting a MYSTIC skin? You know the ones that are customizable?

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You worded that beautifully. :hibiscus:

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Bastion also got a skin!

I’m not sure what Mei, being one of my mains, has to do with me wanting or not wanting an event centered around her.

(And btw, Mei is my 2nd most-played character. She is one of my mains. So, yeah. I would still be asking the same.)

That would be a battle pass thing then, not a lunar new year skin.

I’m not sure what you’re trying to get at.
Look at Krotoan’s post.

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I apologize, I’m not intending on avoiding your question. I’m miscommunicating what I’m trying to get across. Yes, I understand that Mei is more than just her culture, and I did previously mention that I did expect her to get a LNY skin each LNY. I guess the best way to put is, I expected Mei to receive something and since that something isn’t available, I unfortunately can’t, at the moment, find the right words to describe it.

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