I would love to be able to trade or give skins to my friends. I know RNG is part of the reason loot boxes sell, especially during events, but I have a few skins for heroes I don’t play that I would love to give to my friends and make them happy.
Plus I didn’t get Shieldmaiden Brigitte and I need it in my life before May of '19. 
That is not possible just because - money. Blizz need it dollars and if we would be able to get what we want whenever we want, we would eliminate RNG which is driving force of lootbox sales.
What about do a CSGO and make a marketplace to buy and sell skins with IRL money where Blizz gets a cut?
They’ll make millions more!
I really wish you could do this too. 
I understand Blizzard makes money from loot boxes, and that’s how OW gets its main source of revenue, but it seems like they could still do “something.”
Like I’d even pay $1 to be able to gift a skin. That’d even it out, yeah? If the transaction costed money? And they could even make it so you can only gift to people who’ve been on your battlenet friends list for at least 3 months. That’d avoid online skin shopping through ebay, etc.
/Shrug. I don’t know; I get that there’s a lot of things making this near-impossible as a feature, but I just know I’d love it.
You sound kind of sarcastic but I would love to see this. God knows I need that sweet Orissa skin.
I doubt Blizzard would introduce such ideas. Most people are after maybe one or two skins at most, meaning they’d be satisfied and lootboxes would become worthless even faster than they already are.
Nope, I’m serious. I’ve been wanting that for years.
I wonder if the recent controversy over gambling makes this sort of thing less likely.
These days the idea of a paid marketplace for randomized items sounds like it would draw some pushback.
True! But I guess Magic The Gathering exists.
They would need to revamp whole buissnes model, making events obsolete. Beside CS:GO base its economy on rarity of goods. Better skins are harder to obtain and you can get more than one. Not applicable to Overwatch, since skins aint that hard to get and you can buy them with gold.
A few reasons.
I bet that’d make them happy, but you know what would make Blizzard happier? If they spent some cash on lootboxes to get those skins instead.
It’s not happening dude, sorry.
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Just imagine the backlash of this community if they made you pay to gift a skin.
Isn’t it possible to gift lootboxes? Why not just gift those
I know, I was thinking that. XD But still, it’d make sense. I’d be fine with it as long as it was like … literally $1.
I’d be happy to trade that with you if it were a thing