I think we should be able to obtain or buy old overwatch battlepass skins, like bundled with the mythic skins or something
they should just let people grind whatever pass they want and make them purchasable all the time
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Time-limited cosmetics are just short-sighted. As time passes, there will be more and more new players who never had the chance to get them, and some of the players who did get them will stop playing. This means that a smaller and smaller portion of the playerbase will “benefit” from the exclusivity, while a larger and larger portion will want them but not be able to get them.
Yep. We should. I totally agree. But try convincing Blizzard upper management + sales just how much money they will make without the use of their precious FOMO trickery. Especially since they’ve gathered a lot of data on everyone’s spending habits and know quite well that:
FOMO = 
The Blizzard guys that insist on this business model and purposely designed it this way: 
Try telling them to be more lax and generous and see if they’ll notice or care about your feelings on the matter. I doubt they would even read what’s printed here on these forums or care for customer feedback. They know gamers loathe paying high prices and supporting predatory business models, but know quite a few do it anyway, no matter how bad completing such a transaction feels for so many. They’re not here to be generous or make a fun game. They’re here to make a lot of money. It’s all they care about.
(The devs are the ones most likely who care about making a fun, artsy game. But they don’t set the business model or decide when, or if, cosmetics make a return.)
As I always say: if you don’t like the business model, then don’t support it. Collecting cosmetic content is a big draw and part of what keeps the game feeling fun for a number of folks like yourself (it provides another form of progression, and being denied this content is bound to make you feel unhappy, perhaps even left out and jealous—by design, of course: it’s meant to get you spend, and, more importantly, to program your behavior, keeping you hooked and frequently returning to visit the shop so you don’t miss out on your favorite content in the future). If missing out on “one-time” content makes you unhappy with a game, and you’re unwilling to play along with the FOMO mentality, then you should stop playing it. Don’t just “not buy skins.” Stop playing the game altogether. The reason is because your presence is being used to fill games for other people. You are providing a service for Blizzard while not being fairly compensated for your (play) time. So don’t give them even that.
Removing yourself from Blizzard’s games is the only way you can make yourself “heard” by the bean counters when game population counts and quarterly sales numbers are the only metrics they care about.