-the first event skins weren’t purchasable with coins
-the first event used to have recolors on top of the legendary skins
-new event skins cost 3 times more than already existing skins
-the game has received non event skins update only twice for its entire lifespan (for the release of blizzard world and eichenwalde)
-exclusive skins have been repurposed as non event skins (officer d.va, oni genji etc)
-OWL got skins of all heroes and all teams purchasable for OWL tokens
-some of the OWL teams got new skin colors
-legendary OWL skins for OWL tokens were added
-the amount of epic skins per event has been reduced to 3 and they have been made exclusive items for some reason
-Previously exclusive skins have been available again (OWL and event skins)
-events no longer give new epic skins
-events no longer give new legendries (that are not recolors of exiting ones)
-OWL tokens is now the only way to obtain new legendary skins that aren’t recolors
In retrospective, it looks like all of the good stuff has been taken away from the events and instead is now bound to OWL tokens. With battlepasses on the way, the things may become even worse.
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Your statement is only true if you ignore that we had event skins this year and the only reason we haven’t had real events this year is OW2. Note not OWL but OW2.
A little bit a drama queen again arent we? The OWL special token skins were always there and looked a bit better than the normal legy skin because they costed money or you needed to watch OWL for a long time.
But in 9/10 cases people rather use the legendary skins from different events than the OWL skins in my experience.
And of cause cool skins will be in BP and shops now when the games goes F2P. Thats how F2P games make money. You get everything else for free tho.
Also the remix events are just there so that they can focus on getting PvP 2.0 out as soon as possible.
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So they have new legendries for OWL and twitch streamer promotions but doesn’t have any for OW1 because of OW2? Really?
When the blizzard world map was released they added bunch of blizzard games themed skins.
It was not an event tho. Otherwise it would came back. It was a special tied to Blizzard world because they could do it then because it was fitting.
The point is that it is pathetic having normal skins added to the game only once while everything else has been from events.
Well there was no incentive to do it. Again: they dont get money for it and lootboxes were everywhere. Its the games fault that we did not get other updates. Thats the price for “pay once and never again”.
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OWL has its own team doing stuff that isn’t the dev team for OW so they obviously aren’t needed for OW2 development. I am pretty sure there was an update for WoW as well this year despite OW2 which is the same idea.
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So only non event skins are considered normal to you?
Don’t worry, with BPs they’ll probably add a lot of normal skins
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Knew a while back the madness would get worse, when we got a 29€ emote. Lol wtf.
Yeah, I get that but it wasn’t really worth it. Skins are the only content the game has after all.
Should have been but then blizzard turned the game into live service with live service events and then denying it is a live service.
Also keep in mind originally you weren’t supposed to be able to buy event skins with coins. It was only changed because they got huge backlash.
I wouldn’t worry too much about it. By the time the devs learn their lesson in jumping the shark on monetization greed most will have moved on.
Only those super new to gaming and shooters would drop money on skins.
You can get way better skins and content for free in other games through mods and the mod communities.
The lone skin I ever dropped money for was all star Dva because I was out of town and I won a bunch of cash in Vegas on horse racing.
Blizzard could have made way more money opening up the customization for this game because it would have kept regular players engaged with new content during the dry years and the gotta catch em all whales would stay buying skins from blizz they don’t really need.
But it was never run that way. Jeff even said that he did not think of OW as a live service game. Thats why we have the change to F2P and a new cosmetic model. NOW we have a live service game. OW1 was a strange hybrid that did not work for the long term.
OW1 was a live service.
event only content - check
lootbox monetization - check
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I always found this really sad. I liked the surprise of getting new skins without there being an event and was hoping it would happen again.
I have not seen a single person who likes this change
I spent money on that too. The OWL token drops were bugged out and I wasn’t missing that skin. Luckily I had enough coins to cover half the price. Spending $5 on that skin was worth it. Once it’s more than $15 I will probably let it go.
Understatement of the year. Doomsayers are going to spread doom and gloom, nothing new under the sun in this forum.
Or, maybe, they chose to work on regular skins for OW2, since it clearly is the TOP priority right now and since OWL only have “team skins”, they also decided to give it more “flavor” by adding more Legendary skins that follow the theme of their events, which makes 100% sense … but sure, take everything and look at it in the most negative way. That works too I guess 
That is why OWL still gets legendries for tokens, right? Because they are too busy with OW2.
I wonder what the excuse will be when OW2 finally gets released and most of the skins becomes paid.
