Now we have seen widows mythic I am starting to see a potential anti-consumer practice when it comes to mythic designs.
That issue being, levels 1-3 unlocking pretty basic customisation and colours and then locking the actual full skin with all the cool effects behind level 4
It was only the tracer skin that really had this issue, but then we got reaper and now widow’s skin and its creating imo a unhealthy pattern with mythic design
This whole ‘upgrade your mythic’ is fundamentally flawed. We saw this with tracer where all it did was make the final tier the only one worth using. You cant both have skins feel like they upgrade whilst making sure all the combinations feel equal. What it results in is people feeling like they have to max the skin to actually get their moneys worth cus the other options are just substantially lacking
We literally just saw this with the reaper mythic where if you actually wanted the cool colour trail etc you HAD to get level 4. Didnt matter if you liked the first mask if you want all the effects you gotta max it out. Also all they did was take the full skin, remove pieces and lock them behind each level. So instead of each tier unlocking new options you are just buying your way back to what the full skin always should have been.
Widows is exactly the same. If you want all the visual animations on the skin like the fire on the hat etc, you gotta get it to max level.
What this does is limit player choice cus there is only 1 real choice, and where a mythic may have 3-4 armor options all except the last level are obsolete cus the last tier is just the best.
We need to go back to where mythic customisation didnt consecutively get better as you level it up. Where you could get level 1 or 2 and still get the full skin experience. Where there was no best option and it was merely up to player taste
Imagine if with zeus jq if you wanted the lightning hands and effect on knife you had to max it to full…
Yeah, I hated that they locked some of the gimmicks behind the final tier of the Tracer Mythic, especially since the early tiers look way better in my opinion.
Also, as far as Mythics go, Widow’s is really tame, it feels more like a legendary with recolours than a Mythic.
I hate that they say “upgrade your mythic” because that implies you earn each stage and there is a progression when all you do is pay more money (…sorry, prisms )
I also despise that if there is only some parts you like from the mythic you have to buy every level even tho you won’t use the other level cosmetics like the mercy skull mask, my favourite colour weapon and hairstyle was the lvl 1 but I wanted the skull mask so I had to unlock every stage just to get it.
I don’t disagree but jq mythic was released as all one thing. You only ever got the maxed out version when it originally released, so it makes sense that it’s different from some of the newer ones. Im not sure where I stand on this exactly because on the one hand yeah you obviously kinda just have to go for max to get the effects but that’s also just how mythics were designed from the start, they just now added a way to get a cut down version for “cheaper”
100% agreed with the OP. I was thinking about the exact same thing too + both Reaper and Widow mythic skins not having weapon options, only having a single weapon you can’t customize. And i think that we all know why!
widow does seem to have at least 2 gun options. Reaper has only one but I think that’s just how it goes sometimes different mythics have different options,
edit: im probably lying, shows how much I play widow lmao
With Genji mythic everyone had their own style based on their preferences and looked “max level” with the alterations being tattoo patterns, masks and colours. Now it varies between being mediocre with minimal change like orisa and Hanzo, being high quality throughout but having level up feel like Ana and Mercy or straight up being level up to look better like Reaper and the upcoming Widowmaker.
They werent though. Its just the reaper widow and tracer thats done this…
With mercy they didnt lock the beam & rez effects + fiery wings behind level 4
I was happy to stop mercy at level 3 because i wasnt a fan of the level 4 mask or extra colour option. I felt like even at level 3 I was getting the full skin and its features
What they are doing with reaper and widow would be like if they gave mercy basic effects and then locked all those cool effects to level 4.
I dont feel like i am getting the mythic in a mythic skin until its max level WHEN THE WHOLE POINT OF ADDING PRISMS WAS SO YOU COULD PICK AND CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANTED. By adding all the effects only to level 4 only you dont get a choice anymore. You have to get to level 4 to actually get a mythic skin
Imagine if moiras eye orbs were locked to only level 4….
You need to add to your post the new essentially level 5 info.
And for the first time, you can enhance your fully maxed out Mythic Hero Skins with the prestigious Gilded Aspects from the Mythic Shop, launching with sleek black and gold color variants.
Level 5? Level 6 is already here! Not only can you have a special gilded skin, you can have a mythic weapon with special death effects and weapon flourishing!
It’s been this way a while, but admittedly has been getting even worse.
And with the gilded colour schemes being locked behind the mythic store and having to have already spend the obscene amount of 80 prisms to unlock everything before you can unlock it, it’s bound to only get worse.
This is why I stopped buying the passes the moment the Tracer one came out. When I saw that people didn’t get very upset at the lower quality and lack of actual “customization”, i knew it’d only get worse from there. I’m happy with the ones I have, and I bought Mercy’s just for the collection, but unless they drop one that’s actually up to the standard of the first few which is highly unlikely at this point, I won’t be bothering.
Edit: ESPECIALLY considering everything else in the passes is worse now too. More coins, sure, but less emotes, victory poses and actually DETAILED highlight intros make it again, not worth buying. Lord knows I don’t need more souvenirs, the 0.2kb they probably take up is still a waste of space.
This does seem to be a really logic and fact based argument, but I simply do not agree with you, yet again. No idea how you come up with this stuff. The point of choices is that you can make them, Swanky. Hopefully that makes sense to you.
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