Blizzard locks Season 7 skins behind a $40 paywall, enraging Overwatch 2 fans

Much of Overwatch 2’s Season 7 promo material was linked to a Halloween crossover with Diablo 4, though it doesn’t look like many people are going to be wearing the Inarius and LIlith skins – especially considering they’ll set you back $39.99.

Overwatch 2 Season 7 will introduce a fair few changes when the start date swings around this week. Major adjustments include new leavers penalties and a whole new battle pass bundle for Season 7. While the new map and Sombra rework has been warmly received by fans so far, the price of the Ultimate Battle Pass Bundle for Season 7 has sent fans of the franchise steaming.

“I’d rather buy a nice game on sale or at the same price without a sale than a disgustingly overpriced pack,” comments one Redditor, while another points out that “This is how much Overwatch cost at release. This is a joke.”

Anyone playing live-service games knows that the price of Battle Passes and alike will always set gamers back a bit, though most of the time the content is justified. Whether the Ultimate Battle Pass content is worth it is another discussion, but what’s really the issue here is that there’s no way to get the Diablo 4 skins in Overwatch 2 without paying a high price.

The trailer for the Rise of Darkness expansion clearly poises Lilith as a central character, and having the skin only available through a $40 paywall is pretty ludicrous.

Games reliant on frequent battle passes and cosmetics have been toying with consumers for a while now, but introducing a battle pass that costs almost as much as a game is a pretty big step. One player summed up the effect of this pretty concisely: “Blizzard really making it easier and easier to not want to interact with the shop.”

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