There are a bunch of name cards that are in the game client and clearly were meant to go with specific skins and yet were not included in the skin bundles. Of the pairings mentioned in the Overwatch Cavalry tweet (and the reply with the Koi Hanzo), only the Biohazard Ramattra hasn’t been in the shop yet, and none of those skins was bundled with the name card.
In fact, I think there have only been 3 bundles with name cards included: Witch Kiriko, Cyber monk Zen, and Calavera Reaper. I think those were all in October. I’ve had those 3 name cards in my “Just For You” recommendations every day for months now. So, I’m pretty sure that the other name cards have not been made available in any way, even for individual purchase.
Just, why? It’s an inexpensive cosmetic, and there’s currently so little variety in what people have available. It’s mostly just the ones from the battlepasses. Why are these other name cards in the game but inaccessible?
Creating artwork assets and putting them in the game and then not making them available in any way, even for money, is not laziness. They’ve literally done extra work for no reward.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the cyber widow icon. Do you know if there are other unavailable icons that go with skins? There’s also the series of “silhouette” icons that have been in the game since launch with still no way of being earned. Like, they even added hero challenges for earning icons, which would seem to be the obvious place for such an icon series, but they’re not part of those challenges.
Anyway, since the Cyberdevil Widow was in the last shop rotation of Season 1, it occurred to me to wonder if icons and name cards stopped being included in bundles at the same time. I scrolled back through OverwatchCavalry’s old Twitter posts to see when various items were released into the shop. From what I could find, the last bundle to include a player icon was Cyber Dragon Hanzo on Nov 8. Cyberdevil Widow was released on Nov 29, and her bundle didn’t include the player icon. I believe the last bundle to include a name card was Calavera Reaper on Nov 1, while Star Sheep Orisa (released Dec 13) was the first bundle with an obviously missing name card.
So there does seem to be consistency here. In mid-November, player icons and name cards stopped appearing in bundles.
The full list from my experience of missing name cards and player icons from seasons 1 and 2 is:
Name Cards:
Aztec Sombra,
Star Sheep Orisa,
Biohazard Ramattra,
Koi Hanzo,
Minotaur Reinhardt,
Medusa Widowmaker,
Captain Torbjörn
Player Icons:
Owl Guardian Mercy,
Minotaur Reinhardt,
Cyberdevil Widowmaker,
Hermes Lúcio
Interestingly, The Takoyaki Zenyatta bundle included a player icon, the first one to correctly unlock since Cyber Dragon Hanzo iirc
I don’t get why they still haven’t added the missing player icons and name cards into the shop?? I’ve been waiting for that koi header for a long time now…
Why add in stuff like this if you’re just gonna forget about it or something?? It’s so dumb!
I saw that they added a player card with the new ashe skin, and i want that one so badly but now i’m scared that they will forget about it and i will never have the chance to get it
