It’s not the best post Overwatch 2; Whether it’s the long queues, the way people can’t log into the game, the broken heroes, or the poor Battle Pass, Blizzard has been making a lot of news since the game launched earlier this month — not really for the right reasons.
One of the main sticking points people have with games comes down to the implementation of cosmetics. I’ve argued that the battle pass should have a free loot crate track (similar to the way Apex Legends does) because I think it makes you feel like you’re actually earning more as you play – even if the rewards are low value Traditional cosmetics.
As it stands, you have to earn Overwatch Coins by completing weekly in-game challenges, and you can only earn a paltry amount at a time. For example, the quickest way to get your favorite Hanzo skin from the first game is to use IRL money – which, of course, isn’t something everyone wants to do. Enter Reddit user loliscoolyay4me. They did the math and created a spreadsheet listing all the cosmetics launched from Overwatch, and aggregating the associated prices in the Overwatch 2 store.After crunching these numbers, users found that the price of each old cosmetic item in Overwatch 2 was equivalent to Incredible $12,080.69.
If you’re looking to earn all of this with the in-game currency earned from your weekly challenges, good luck; you’ll need to complete nearly 450 years of weekly challenges. I hope you have patience.
But hey, at least you don’t have to buy everything; there’s a battle pass that rewards you with various in-game rewards as you play, and Blizzard is even giving away a free Reaper skin and some bonus experience for that incomplete release period Apologize. It’s not much, but it’s a start, right?
Still, Blizzard has a lot to celebrate despite the cost of the cosmetics and the broad response from the player base to the Battle Pass. The game has already attracted 25 million players — and that’s just 10 days.
If Blizzard can even monetize a fraction of its audience… well, it’ll be laughing out loud for years to come.
