Overwatch 2 – Season 7: Rise of Darkness Begins October 10!

Every season. :rofl: THIS is the ONE!

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it has 2 legendaries and an Epic skin in it. It makes it so there are 3 bundle exclusive skins now

i doubt it. it’d have to be a recolor cuz the original was pretty exclusive

the only heroes who don’t have battle pass skins are Widowmaker (who’s confirmed to be getting one), and Brig, who’s gotten 2 free event skins (Ice Queen during Winter Wonderland 2022, and Sparkplug earlier this season).

So far, all the skins looks pretty cool.

(except Mercy :rofl:, she got ugly epic skin. 100% deserved it)

Im excited with that new Lifeweaver, Ashe and Echo skin. Especially that “Corpse Bride” Widow skin, i’ve been wanting those for years.

i’ve heard people theorize that showing Necromancer Ram was actually them showing a new highlight intro.

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Finally someone who knows how to not be negative about every single thing!!! It’s so annoying with people saying “OMG another Pharah skin!! what the hell are these devs doing!!!”

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Thats nice and all. But what do you plan on doing about the flood gate of CHEATERS coming into this game? Im tired of substantial amounts of head-click hackers in this game that are clearly using cheats, making this game MUSH.

Also. Match maker is terrible

I cant speak for others, but personally I’m not hype.

I just acknowledge a W when I see one. I still need more info before I consider playing again, though. I’ve skipped out of most of OW2 due to disappointment/frustration and I’ve gone into detail many times, but if I see something good, then I’m also willing to say so.

She got a baywatch skin. The universe had to be brought back into alignment XD

True. I hold nothing against good progress!

In fact, some things seem to be genuinely good - like the Lilith skin for Moira, and a change to Sombra’s kit - being two items of note.

But the principle of the matter goes more into Blizzard’s pattern of behavior over the last 7+ years. It’s like a wound that gets cauterized repeatedly every new season or so, but the effect is in reverse. The hype is like a new honeymoon phase (cauterization from the previous wound), and the time thereafter is like a slow siphoning of players’ money (a new wound opening over time, until the next season).

After a while, it’s something that’s very difficult to ignore. And it’s why the focus on new players is so high - they don’t have veteran levels of resistance.

This I agree with. They’ve definitely gone back and forth with Ws and Ls.
Aside from my personal preference for 6v6, their monetization and currency distribution have been weakpoints; I stopped a month into season 1 because I burned out grinding weeklies.

And though skin prices are a still too high and story mode bundle was a turbo L (just let people get it for $5 :face_with_diagonal_mouth:), between the overall improvements to getting OW coins/credits, passes going on sale during the last weeks, and these credit shops, I think monetization is in a reasonable spot. The free lootboxes from OW1 still take a hot dump on the current system though XD

I did some rough math around a year ago and iirc in OW2 a non-paying player get around 6.25% of what they’d earn in OW1 at best. Even if a player pays for the premium pass, the passes have a hard cutoff on earnable items and they’d still have less what I could earn for free in OW1.

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It’s a shame what greed does to people

The Sombra rework looks pretty questionable on paper, but at least the skins are all righteous.

So still no major changes despite the absolutely awful Steam score and dwindling player numbers? The skins look decent so I’m sure the whale will be happy at least.

Soooo Season 6 ultimate bundle, for $40, included:
(3) Legendary skins
(2000) Coins
BP with Illari + 20 tier skips
(3) PvE missions

And Season 7 has:
(2) Legendary skins
(1) Epic skin
(1000) Coins
BP with no new hero + 20 tier skips
(0) PvE missions

Am I missing something or did they just reduce the ‘items’ by ~30% and are going to offer this for $25-30 instead of $40?

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id be surprised if they actually sold it at a reduced price. ive never bought those bundles but i had assumed they were 40$ in previous seasons

Yeah for 2k coins I could see that, but half, with no pve or new hero, and one less legendary skin? At $40 that’d be an insane reduction in value.

This looks very good for… everyone really. Really glad that they keep the credit shop in the game (even when its in a limited fashion) and let the F2P players get skins and even new heroes during a week! This might be one of the best seasons so far in terms of content. Better than last year to 100%. Sadly for me I only like the Lilith Moira skin and dont care about the others. Well… matter of taste.

The only thing that kind of makes me angy is that I see that PHARA is getting ANOTHER skin and they dont talk about any Ana changes… :melting_face:

What you are missing is that they had in every seasons prior to S6 the bundle for 30 bucks with only 1 legendary skin and one epic skin. So if they are going back to 30 bucks and give is 2 legendary and one epic its a win in my book in terms of value.

If you play both heroes consistently then sure. Most people don’t though and would rather have the extra coins to use towards whatever they want.

Well, I buy it for the BP (10 bucks) and the 2k coins (20 bucks, so 30 bucks in total), so I dont really care about the rest. Its a nice extra that does not cost me anything.