True but honestly, the skins are not that great anyway. I have a ton. Plus, the new collectable items are useless
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That is why you read the patch notes from when season 3 launched. I donât get why people never concern themselves with things that change in updates or new releases such as seasons.
And yes, patch notes are readable from in-game.
6 posts, came to the forums thinking he was the first to say this.
GG
Do it, I beg you, do it.
Everyone says this, it means nothing unless you put your damn money where your mouth is, otherwise itâs just an empty threat without teeth.
Yeah, they finessed you.
This is Blizzard weâre talking about, remember.
They repeatedly stated before Season 3 that they would be âadding the non-premium currency which you can use to purchase OW1 cosmeticsâ.
Bobby will not add premium currency to the Battlepass for the foreseeable future.
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Maybe you should have been playing longer, because I saw the Q and A post they put out weeks before the BP (with free credits in it) announcing that there will be free credits to earn again.
It was pretty easy to find, because originally said they werenât going to bring back the âoldâ currency at all.
So, have fun with that.
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Are you honestly telling me youâve read the patch notes for every patch you ever installed, and that you know for a fact there wasnât fine print in it that said that you agree to play Blizzard $10 if you play the game for more than an hour?
And can you honestly say that you wouldnât be screaming bloody murder if they asked you to pay up on the basis that it was hidden in the patch notes?
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Haha what a dummy, if you look closely, youâll see that one currency is a yellow circle with two lines, while the other is a yellow hexagon with two lines. One is credits, the other is coins, two totally distinct concepts. Couldnât you tell the glaring difference?
And joking aside, Iâd have to look it up right now to know for sure which icon is which.
Yes, I read every patch notes for updates in all the games that I play, because I want to know what changed.
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OK, I think youâre in a serious minority then. Iâd bet that less than 10% of forum posters do, and less than 0.5% of game players who donât post in the forum do.
I donât mean glance at them; I mean read them closely enough to notice that it says âcreditsâ and not âcoinsâ when one is expecting it to read âcoinsâ.
I certainly glance at them, but I only read the parts of them that look interesting. I didnât buy the BP so this doesnât apply to me, but I actually did think that it was coins until I noticed people complaining that it was credits.
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Visual change that had a scammy purpose.
The only result itâs gonna have is a further deteroriation of their already bad reputation, just for hundreds of Premium BP bought by accident by casual players who trusted the significance of a yellow colored currency (thinking it was Premium currency).
Was it worth turning their community (aka âclientsâ) even warier whenever they purchase something from Blizzard ? Is this the kind of image they want to reflect ?
Well, thatâs all they did just out of greed for selling a little extra Premium BPsâŚ
Imagine if those visual changes, as you call it, gets even worse and it gets impossible to be 100% sure what weâre buying in the future, whether itâs a skin or new hero we want to unlock, and you fall for it ?
Will you be that compliant, then, when it happens to you ?
Itâs a game, the most important information should all appear in-game, not on some site on the side. In-game patch notes donât mention anything about the currency recoloring.
I just checked, no mention of old currency being recolored in yellow 
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Try to defend this however you want, you know deep down what Blizzardâs goal was.
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Have you ever sat down to play board games with some friends? I mean a large group of friends. You will find thereâs a group (within that group) of your friends who will try to avoid reading rules, because they know someone else will explain it to them.
Patch notes are treated the same way.
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Another thing youâll notice is that among those who have read the rules, there will be many different interpretations of the same rules. So even though many people have read the rules, you still end up arguing about what said rules actually are. 
I am not talking about the recoloring. I am talking about the section that mentions the free credits being added to the BP.
This is from the Patch Notes:
Overwatch Credits are back
- Overwatch Credits, which were previously labeled âLegacy Creditsâ and were not earnable in Overwatch 2, can now once again be earned through progressing in the Season 3 Battle Pass
- All players can earn up to 1500 credits as free rewards, and another 500 credits are available as premium rewards in the Season 3 Battle Pass
- Credits can be spent in the Hero Gallery, which now contains nearly all seasonal Epic and Legendary-tier skins released prior to the launch of Overwatch 2. This includes many skins that were previously only available for purchase with Coins in the âJust for Youâ section of our Shop
There are 1500 credits on the free BP track. You didnt even need to buy the BP to get them.
It doesnât need to, thereâs a distinct difference between the word âcoin(s)â and âcredit(s)â, knowing that it can be deduced that there was a color change.
Thereâs been countless changes that havenât been in the patch notes, does that mean that every single last change needs to be?
And the shapes are different too. (albeit similar)
Premium Coins are hexagon.
Free Credits are Circular.
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But ultimately, if you explain something to them, you can hand them the rule book and say âsee, right here. You go back to startâ
You didnât read the rules, you didnât even gloss them.
Live and learn.
Heck, before you confirmed purchase, you could have scrolled over it in the BP and examined the credit rewards lmao
So, this is me pointing at the rule. Which you could have (easily) seen ahead of time (several times).
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Iâve actually had quite a few cases where, with a board game, we go back and consult the rules and even reading them together we still have different interpretations of them.
Not saying thatâs the case here though; I do agree that if you read the patch notes carefully (which I donât think most people do or can even be reasonably expected to do) then it is clear that credits are not coins.
Thereâs no scam. They didnât lie. They specifically stated these would be legacy credits that could be used on older items. You should learn to read before making purchases.
Those are close words. Most people used those two terms as synonyms, hence why people got confused because of that in the first place, then because of the the scammy recoloring.
When those changes are directly connected to clientsâ wallets, yes.
Most players are casual players that canât tell the difference between the old and new currency in terms of âlogoâ (they both look alike). The color is usually what people remembers the most.
Even I, as an Overwatch player since 2016 couldnât tell the difference between the old and new currency designs as I donât spend my time in the shop, yet in the game lobby and matches. Thatâs what gaming is all about.
I am talking about the scammy recoloring. Had Blizzard had good intent, they would have written in capital letters (or in bold) âCAREFUL, WE RECOLORED THE OLD CURRENCY IN YELLOW. DONâT CONFUSE THEM WITH PREMIUM CURRENCY, THEYâRE NOTâ.
They didnât 'cause their intent was for casual clients to be scammed. I still donât think itâs smart for them to tarnish their reputation even further just for extra Premium BPs to be bought. This will have bad consequences for them in the long run.