I love the paywalling of Crossover skins! Its such a deliciously evil FOMO tactic! Plenty of DIGITAL ITEMS you can NEVER get again since they are apparently impossible to reproduce due to limited resources!
Sombra Demon Hunter (forced to be given to everyone in a limited event after massive backlash, now unobtainable)
Genji Illidan and Symmetra Tyrande (Blizzcon ticket exclusive, now unobtainable)
Reinhardt Raynor (Deluxe versions Blizzard Arcade, now unobtainable)
Brigitte Medic (Find the streamer with the cheapest sub option and get 3 of them, soon to be unobtainable)
Love the original 6 that they dropped into REGULAR lootboxes pools after the community pestered and begged Blizzard for new items to be put into loot boxes after most regular players had unlocked everything by 2017 and all they got were dupes and content even back then was sparse.
I remember thatā¦ I even remember that jey3 was so dumb he even didnt know what everyone was talking about (hes mentaly bronze), but i think thatās what they suppouste to say āi know about somthing but canāt tellā community started some conspiracy theory about big future they (streamers) lost some views thanks to that.
Fake hype thatās what was the main goal then make us wait for like you sayed 4 maps, 1 hero and all in Orange. Big, big hype
"Q. What regions are participating in the Support a Streamer campaign?
A. Participating regions include North America, Europe, The Middle East, Africa, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand."
Idk, i get supporting the content creators because they hyped up ow2 with the secret fake nda meeting (nda is lifted, still donāt know what they were all so excited aboutā¦ liars??) in exchange for guaranteed beta access but i think $15 for a skin is bad. They knew people would buy skins at $10 a piece because of owl. They say they get no monetary value and they get ad value but the real hidden value is finding out how many people will pay $15 for a skin. Its a sneaky round about way of doing it but trust they are doing it.
This is useful info for a game right before it starts attaching price tags to skins in their ow store. Depending on how many ppl buy this skin will more than likely decide the fate of whether legendary skins in the online store are $10 or $15 in October.
Welp, there goes my complete collection of (non-OWL team color epic) Brig skins. Not that anyone would probably fault me for passing on this one anyway, seeing the overall consensus.
Even if I were on Twitch, I wouldnāt be subbing to streamers because I wouldnāt ever be able to bring myself to actually properly watch them. I cannot bring myself to be dishonest. I guarantee, even the actually nice ones would set off my anxiousness due to the nature of it.
And a sidenote, I find it a bit ironic that the skin is for Brig, considering the way a lot of streamers have treated her.
If you figure itās a marketing thing. Having popular celebrities and variety streamers promoting the game, gets a lot of people who either never played Overwatch or havenāt played in years.
āFeel free to support our beloved and excitedā¢ streamers committed to the partyā.
The good thing is now we have an official list of people we should not listen when they give their ātotaly free and not controlledā opinion about Ow2 !
Nah i wouldnāt fault you for buying this or not buying it. Im undecided myself. Ill have to see how brig plays in ow2 on console to even see if i want another brig skin or if this skin would just rot in my collection. If they ever use skins to buy streamer influence again ill have a lot to say tho. This better be a one off thing.
If having their customers pay their content creators with the purchasing of FOMO skins is the future ill click not interested on every ow content i see on youtube for the rest of my life.
