The Pink skin should never be put in normal lootboxes

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I’ve lost faith in special tie-in skins ever since the debacle that was the officer D.Va skin being put in the normal lootbox rotation after merely a month. It really gave the middle finger to anyone that spent the time to earn that skin, just because people complained back and forth about it being too hard to earn; at least should have been exclusive for ~4 months like oni genji.
But this Pink skin is an entirely different beast. Blizzard can give the middle finger to their player base all they want, but if they go a similar path as the D.Va skin, they’ll now be giving the middle finger to people who donated to breast cancer research._ People spent a relatively high amount for a skin for charity and to see blizzard drop the pink skin in the normal rotation at all in the future would be one of the biggest insults I’ve ever seen from this game to its playerbase. Blizzard, this is not an event that needs a participation trophy in the future. Besides the actual donation to charity, players who dropped $15 whole dollars for one skin will not be content with other players buying the skin for merely 1000 in game currency, or randomly pulling it from a vanilla lootbox. Have the event come back in the future sure, maybe add another skin, but this skin should absolutely get the Blizzcon skin treatment and never be in normal lootboxes. I’m sure an official confirmation of its permanent absence will increase sales quite a bit as well.
If someone can’t afford the skin, they can make a smaller donation directly to the breast cancer foundation through other means; as many would try to admonish my topic by saying people shouldn’t be donating money for just the skin, well there you go. Players can donate just $1 if they can’t afford the $15, with no skin attached of course.

Thanks for reading.

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I think they’ll keep it out of the loot boxes. They haven’t released Widowmaker Noir’s skin into the normal loot boxes.

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Hopefully. I’d feel uncomfortable if they moved it to normal lootboxes.

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I’m positive they wouldn’t, purely because of what it stands for.
To give something that was a charity fundraiser away for free would defeat the purpose :slight_smile:

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I personally like special skins like these, it’s a cool way to show that you were “there” during that time.

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I mean it would effectively be scamming the people who bought it. Like, surprise! If you had waited a month you could have saved that $15! That’s a lot different from the HotS skins, because those skins didn’t cost physical money

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I doubt they will. Due in part because of the cause it was made for, and because the Noir widow skin and origin skins are still exclusives.

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Well since I donated, yes, I would prefer they don’t ever put it in lootboxes.

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No. Because you didn’t pay for the skin, you donated to the charity. The skin was merely a incentive. And it shouldn’t matter, if it becomes available for everyone afterwards.

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My point is the people who paid for it would feel cheated

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I am broke soooo the only way i’m getting it is if they make thru normal lootboxes

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The reason they added the skin in the first place is because a lot of people are greedy and need an incentive. Those people would feel ripped off. I know it sucks, but most people are more capitalists than humanitarians

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ShadowLord64, with that same logic, wouldn’t it be even greedier of Blizzard to take something created to incentivize charity donations and make it widely available to incentivize lootbox purchases? Or for Blizzard valuing in-game currency as equivalent to a sizable donation of real money to charity?

Really makes you think.

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Yup. Exactly. That’s basically what I was going for.

Also placing the Pink skin in boxes would put them in violation of Belgium’s ruling, since they have declared it gambling for lootboxes to contain items with monetary value. At the moment, Overwatch is not in violation, but would be if Pink Mercy were put into boxes

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I haven’t bought the skin, but am thinking about it, and agree.

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God I hope not.

It was a huge decision for me to put my little money into both supporting this case, but also getting a cute exclusive skin.

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well thats happening ethier way if the pink skin is or isn’t being put in a lootbox

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In what way? Blizzard has shown no inclination of assigning real world values to items

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Technically you -are- buying the skin, it’s just the proceeds are going to the charity. It -is- a purchase, not a donation.

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I think you have the law backwards because I think it states that it can’t have things with no monetary value thats kinda why card packs are not conisdering gambling because you can sell those for money