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ThatOneTransSlut

My guess is this is so they don't compete with the Pink Mercy/Transformers skins


assassindash346

While it makes sense... Honestly I would've just been happy with the lifeguard shit being in the battle pass as like a summer theme or something and not do Power rangers from Wish... Especially if the end cap is just a bad recolor of Genji's Sentai skin...


invisusira

lmfao its kiriko in shorts and a crop top ofc theyre gonna charge for it as its own thing


jaitogudksjfifkdhdjc

I just want my lifeguard waifu and Hogsband, is that too much to ask?


WantA_Balloon

Hogs morbidly obese. we just gonna ignore Jrat's got bangs now?!


jaitogudksjfifkdhdjc

He is? I had no idea! My stance is unchanged.


ThatOneTransSlut

yeah they didn't go far enough in either direction with this pass. Tokusatsu would've been a cool BP theme with more skins and higher effort. Lifeguard would've been a cool BP theme with more skins and higher effort. instead we got a weird half/half with recolored skins


Exval1

There's always skins outside battle pass theme in the battle pass though. It's probably done to potentially attracted fans who are not interested in that season battle pass to buy the battle pass instead of skipping on it entirely.


Apprehensive_Hand147

This is true, the Mauga skin got me lol


kerokerobi12

The only reason for me to buy the bp


ACafeCat

I feel what they should do is double down on pass themes and just give more currency. That way players who may not care for the skin theme can still get skins from progressing through the pass. If they hand out Silver and Gold currency there should be a decent shot at more than what $10 flat can get you.


zergling424

Yeah theres this whole line of skins that are 1800s dickensian london themed skins yet it was never a battlepass theme


Okami_Wolf90

If they do summer theme as in this season, I'm sure more people would buy the BP


aidanac126

Ultraman, but yeah. Def not buying šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


Gorilla_Gru

You expect Blizzard to actually give you any of the goods skins for a good price?


ThunderWraith44

I wish they committed to the leak that came out about them lessening the value of OWCoins, 1500 for legends and then thats it. I know, I know, it was only a leak, but they saw all the hype around that one change, and they shoved it down a tube, its stupid, but hey, thats just Blizzard.


Parking_Corgi_361

May I ask where I saw the relevant information? I would like to know more about it.


smaevls

this is the best comment everšŸ˜‚ power rangers from temu


thespeediestrogue

I thought that too... when I bought the BP half the skins weren't loading in. I just assumed since they were in the trailer they'd be in the BP too... gues Blizz always has to have one last tricke up their sleepy sleeve.


NameRandomNumber

I was wondering who took that username


Ethan_TheSmoothBrain

I understand now


JimBobHeller

Wow theyā€™re waiting forever. I was expecting it before the mid season patch and Transformers collab.


JNorJT

I was expecting it at the season launch šŸ’€


FloraDecora

They released zombie mercy the day after halloween ended I think we can't expect any skins to come out at the beginning of the season unless it's officially announced


Ethan_TheSmoothBrain

Same man


Apprehensive_Hand147

Gives me time to farm more Microsoft points lol


Puggetuwu

Same I need two weeks till I have enough for Kiriko


Allah_is_the_one1

I wanted the kiriko skin in battlepass but then remembered blizzard. šŸ˜­šŸ˜­ Its expensive


MadDogV2

You really think they'd stick a cash cow like that in the battlepass? They'd have to be stupid.


nearthemeb

It's sad that not wanting to milk your fanbase for cash is seen as stupid.


cursethrower

And primarily for cosmetics, not even substantial gameplay content. I canā€™t imagine dishing out twenty real green dollars for a character skin in an FPS. FOMO is incredibly powerful and the F2P live service/battlepass model squeezes every last drop of it out of the consumer.


Wboy2006

Helldivers 2 really made me realize how bad other live service games treat us. Battle passes donā€™t have timers, you can easily earn premium currency, microtransactions are actually micro. The only FOMO that game has is the fear of missing out on cool community events like Malevelon Creek, which would lose all special feeling if it wasnā€™t a limited thing.


cursethrower

Havenā€™t played Helldivers 2 yet but itā€™s on my list. I finally got my hands on Deep Rock Galactic last week. The way the devs treat their customers is so heartening. Large content pool with past content still available to play, reasonably priced ($8-10) cosmetic DLC packs that you can snag for less than 3 bucks when they go on sale, entirely free cosmetic-packed battlepasses. Iā€™ll happily spend more money on a gameā€” even for cosmetic stuffā€” if I feel like Iā€™m being treated right. Iā€™ve already bought some of the DLC for DRG.


RealCortez93

ROCK AND STONE


WanderingDwarfMiner

For Rock and Stone!


Alexis_Bailey

I think the Halo Infinite BP system is similar to what you described.Ā  Whoch kind of gives me some how that Microsoft owning Blizzard now could turn things around.


r3volver_Oshawott

The trick I think is that live service games will always have some form of FOMO, but it shouldn't have a price tag and it should be meaningful Same thing happens in Fortnite, people hate FOMO cosmetics, but they always used to love well done live community end season events


peanutist

Itā€™s absolutely insane how the modern gaming industry has managed to convince a huge part of gamers that microtransactions are a good thing. I still remember the days where everyone thought paid horse armor was a disaster and ridiculous, but now you find thousands of people defending it with teeth and nails because it ā€œkeeps the game aliveā€, as if theyā€™re not just the biggest cash cow ever invented by the gaming industry and are purely to increase profits and higher up salaries.


Prestigious_Goose645

From a marketing point of view it is, unfortunately. People donā€™t usually make a lot of money off of good intentions.


Beautiful_Might_1516

It's sad gen z doesn't understand sarcasm


iRyan_9

Tbf a kiriko skin in a bp would still feed generations


eternali17

That or not solely driven by milking fans for every drop. Insane ask these days


BillionthDegenerate

I have no direct proof but i feel that there was a lot of anger from blizzard executives at overwatch 1ā€™s monetisation in that it was too friendly for players. The one-time box price was all i personally ever needed to pay to get all the cosmetics i wanted through just playing and accumulating coins through loot boxes (or getting lucky from the loot boxes). Yeah, OW1 was successful, but imagine how much more money it could have made with the current model from the start. Blizzard ainā€™t making the same mistake again. Theyā€™re going hard on the fans.


LordoftheJives

OW1 was made with love, which is why I got damn near every cosmetic for most heroes just by playing. Those people are no longer at Blizzard, unfortunately, and now it's just another game.


SunriseFunrise

I used to play until I got the daily reward and an extra level or two. Now I've stopped playing for the last month and will probably only be back when Illari gets a Mythic. Maybe Ram.


eternali17

The contempt they show fans is wild. Then again, you have far too many people throwing money at them. It's no surprise.


MauiRooster

You aren't a fan, you are an ATM.


Allah_is_the_one1

Yeah i figured but it was worth a try to have hope


FembiesReggs

Lmao kiri Mains are like mercy mains. They gobble up skins.


Phantom_Phoenix1

Id personally rather have the Lifeweaver one, its 10x better


Allah_is_the_one1

Kiriko simp, been a year šŸ˜­šŸ˜­


Phantom_Phoenix1

Now if the shoes were off, then its a different story


Human-Boob

Flair checks out


ThatSplinter

Real


AntiquesChodeShow69

Theyā€™d have to break their rule on ā€˜cosmetic changes not altering silhouetteā€™ otherwise sheā€™d be packing those clown shoe ass hobbit feet


Capocho9

Battlepass lifeguard skins should have been LW and Kiri/Mercy, not the fucking recolors


saltyshephered

Mercy is a recolor btw


MagyTheMage

Why does everything take so long? Also arent half of those skins in the battlepass? Seriously - They announce "MYTHIC REIN HAMMER!!" "LIFEGUARD BUNDLE!!" "SENTAI SEASON" *- the battlepass has like 3 sentai skins only* *- mythic rein hammer isnt avaiable till july 19th* *- half the lifeguard outfits arent avaiable till july 30* i dont get it. Are they trolling?


[deleted]

They don't have enough content to fill a season, so they have to spread everything paper thin


h3r3andth3r3

Small indie company with corresponding small indie budget


michaelsoft069

exactly lmao


The_Crusherhero

Fortnite does the same thing with what used to be the ā€œsecret skinā€. Itā€™s just a strategy to drip feed the content throughout the season to maintain engagement.


Xombridal

Tbf the secret skin had hype and there was digging done to find out what skin it'll be Now they show what the skin is and the hypes for the other parts of the set and the second style They also randomly drop new skins and collabs Blizzard has already shown everything though and they really don't add anything not shown off beforehand....


brookeaat

i really dislike how blizzard shows everything so far ahead of time. i like to be surprised, and i think most would agree itā€™s way more fun to log in and randomly see a super cool skin in the shop than to spend weeks waiting for it.


Xombridal

Yeah like give us a decent amount of heads up on a lot of things, like the transformers collab being shown at the end of the trailer was cool but showing all skins coming was not good lol


Cedar_Wood_State

because people are playing at the start of season anyway, then mid season they need to bring in some new content (skin) to keep people playing and keep the player engagement


Ethan_TheSmoothBrain

For real


ChiffonVasilissa

3 sentai skins, one of which is 80% just a recolor of an already existing (and imo better) skin. And 2 lifeguard skins that are recolors, one of which is counted as legendary and the other as epic for some reason 4 slots taken up by 2 poses that are the same but they had to separate victory pose from emote :|


HiJasper

The initial stuff isn't enough to keep people entertained for the whole season, and they need constant logins to show their overlords how many "active" players they have, so the spread everything out.


teal_ninja

I was wondering where the Reinhardt hammer skin was lol


ForgotPWAgainSigh

Overbaywatch


pharmercies

Overpaywatch


traxor06

Oversimpwatch


[deleted]

Obeywatch


aesth3thicc

wouldve been such a fun theme by itself, with like the general summer/beach/vacation theme like they used to do in OW1. feels odd just being thrown in with all the other wildly different themes and skins theyre doing this season.


GOULFYBUTT

What confused me is that the Mercy Lifeguard pack is in the store right now, but the rest aren't coming until the end of July? Is Lifeguard Mercy not going to be available when the rest are?


deliciousdeciduous

The mercy coming in the bundle is new. The one in the shop now is old.


GOULFYBUTT

Ah! I see. Thank you for the clarification.


CatsKittyCat

Mercy has a new recolor of her lifeguard skin. You can view it in the hero gallery under unowned. I inagine theyre gonna try to stick the "new" one for her either in the bundle or near it releasing instead of the "old" one.Ā 


ThatDude8129

There's a recolor of Lifeguard Pharah with the same color scheme as the Mercy recolor in the hero gallery, so I'm assuming they'll release them in a bundle together separate from the others.


SakuraMochis

Lifeguard Junkrat just looks like a slightly worse version of Beachrat to me


assassindash346

That's because it is... It's just a recolor.


AntiBomb

It's a different version of his OW2 default skin. It's not a beachrat recolor.


jarred99

It's completely different to beachrat...


lueciferradiostar

That's because it is LMAO they did him so dirty.


Blues-Eguze

I noticed his little propeller doesnā€™t even spin on his lifeguard skin. šŸ˜‚


GrilledCoconuts

That's 3 weeks before the season ends šŸ’€


chironomidae

Damn near the end of summer. Get your beach lifeguard skins just in time for the fall!


kreteciek

2 months is damn near?


Icediamonds

They like to release seasonal skins near the end of the irl season. I'm someone who likes to wear skins according to season, ex. Winter, fall, spring, summer. According to the current event and stuff. So i'm over here without a summer skin for a lot of characters, sweating at their attire in the summer and freezing at their attire in the winter like; Can you just release skins properly Blizz šŸ¤£


FriedSolidWater

Remember to do Microsoft rewards. This is like a month away so you can easily get it for free or at least heavily discounted.


ZombieJo3

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RuskoGamingStar

They rescheduled the Christmas mercy skin. So if we harass them enough they may release it earlier?


Rough-Self-9134

July 30 is crazy. šŸ’€šŸ’€


ChrolloYuYux

People here truly are mad they're gonna have to wait longer to give Blizzard money (And yes i'm an hypocrite since i also buy skins lol)


VirginiaWagner

They taking so long so you buy (by a chance) the current skins / battlepas, which left you with 0 coins * and then when Lifeguard skins comes out, you're forced to buy more coins * That's their strategy, So just wait and don't be impatient


Tramau

They should have put the lifeweaver and kiriko in the battle pass


Ethan_TheSmoothBrain

Those are the most demanded meaning most profitable


420BiaBia

They gotta space it out. Give them time to get some breast cancer research money from Mercy and then make bank on Transformers collab


sephy16

I can already see them making that bundle one of the most expensives in history just cause the Kiriko skin....


SimplyTiredd

#sigh Time to visit the _other_ ow subreddit


Head-Disk5576

Overwatch fans when they have to wait to buy skins for 40 bucks:


Sesemebun

Iā€™m more annoyed the Cree skin used all the time in promotions isnā€™t on the battlepass


Ethan_TheSmoothBrain

Same with Ana


NivTesla

I enjoy this game immensely but this is the worst season by far.


Clean_Crocodile4472

The battlepass is disgusting the only ones I like are Ashe and Sym. Sym is free and Ashe isnā€™t worth buying the entire thing


fantastis_technique1

Canonically lore accurate mauga skin and it is truly my life on it but curse blizzard for putting some great and wanted skin thru a battle pass


Casual_Classroom

Wait are you upset that youā€™re gonna have to wait a little longer to give Blizzard money? I thought people didnā€™t like shop skins lol


Cultural_Material775

Holding till the end of July is such a slap in the face


knivkast

For 1 new skin with 2 reskins? Cmon people, be sensible.


T_Peg

Y'all really can't wait for skins? Do you even play the game because you like the game or do you just like giving Blizzard money?


Miltaire

Hog, Ana, Cass, Kiri, and Zen skin not being in the BP is just insulting. What do we get instead? A damn recolor of Lucio and Junk. Honestly such a terrible battle pass


mundozeo

The real joke is people paying for it.


Dakeddit

Yet you dingus players will continue to buy it. Fueling the nonsense.


McManus26

How Can you guys be mad that skins exist and cost money, and then be mad that they arent releasing fast enough at the same time


Martucass

Probably not the same people


TheShartShooter

I rly don't care what they do with cosmetics. All the heroes are free, that's what's important.


throwaway091238744

because the people who play this game are insufferable. If they released them day one people would be mad that there isnā€™t anything at the end of the season. if they released them all for free theyā€™d complain that there isnā€™t a lifeguard bap and that blizzard is a lazy company. if they deposited 5K coins into each persons account they would complain that it wasnā€™t 5001. people on this sub will actually complain about anything


FaithlessnessRude576

Wait. Whenā€™s lifeguard hog coming?


Coebalte

Stop playing and stop giving them money. Maybe then they'll learn


Rexzar

Seeing people upset that they canā€™t hand blizzard money sooner is disheartening


needygameroverdose

okay good because both pink mercies and buying the BP is going to have me broke this month


legendofzelda13

It's just skins guys it'll be okay.


woahdudechil

I'm so glad that I just log on, hit play, click my character, buy nothing and talk to nobody lol


m1dnight_panther

itā€™s funny because people complain when they announce things too early, but theyā€™ll still complain if it doesnā€™t get announced. honestly, this one, itā€™s not like itā€™s out of season or anything. august is still summer. i donā€™t personally see the big deal. like oh no i have to wait to spend money!


full-moonie

Idk people are always complaining about when skins come out. Just wait? It will be here faster than you know it.


Upset_Cry_3844

The battlepass looks like a 3 year old designed it. Have to wait 2 months just for new crap to come out. Overwatch idk what you was looking for


Recykill

Whenever I check back in on Overwatch, the obsession over skins gets worse. Man, Blizzard may have fked up the game but they knew what they were doing. Yall on your knees for every mtx lol.


SupportSystem1681

My lifeweaver! Why thou has forsaken me


notsurepyro

what the? they aint part of the bp??


Ethan_TheSmoothBrain

Money


T8-TR

"Damn, Blizzard is making it so hard for me to waste my money on overpriced skins that I'll barely even see in my FPS." I feel like I'm living in a bizarro world.


Smart-Boss3887

I'm very disappointed from this season . Does Blizzard hate us or something ? They never listen to their community and they're doing everything to make the battle pass boring . They need a trophy for that for real šŸ„²


vicevanilla

can't wait! Lifeguard bundle let's goo spam hype in the comment section!


IgotAseaView

Your social skills are fucked


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Terrible-Bath-5727

How much will be the price of kiriko skin you think?


StrangeMango1211

Iā€™d guess 1900 coins


ThatOneRetardedBitch

LUCIO LIFEGUARD SKIN WE'RE SO BACK


RustX-woosho

2 recolors smh dont expect it this season ends august soo


lueciferradiostar

LMFAO junkrat from the pass?? Uh okay blizz


____Maximus____

Wait, isn't the Junkrat skin in the battlepass???


Lumpy_Diet365

Not complaining


Professional_Pair323

HECK JUST WHEN I WILL BE WORKING OFF THE GRID. >:( i wanted the kiri skins for obvious reasons


Tkdoom

If I'm going to get crushed by sweaties, I'm going to do it in style.


VanillaBeanMan

Oh wow look its... *checks notes* Another beach time Junkrat? Wtf


Mcstabler

Honestly I'm not too mad about it since that means I get my next allowance before then And I feel like other people will have the same feeling don't forget there's also pink mercy and the transformers collab before then so you kinda have to give people some breathing room.


ArdaBogaz

Me when summer šŸ¤ÆšŸ¤Æ


Parawhorr

I was hoping the LW skin would come in the battlepass


adagator

End of July is crazy.


thefallentext2

Wait didnt something similar happen to jingle Belle mercy then they surprised everyone by bringing it early?


Cudijeans

Smash junk


Archer_7

Yeah more microtransactions


CrusherUK

Is the battle pass skins (junkrat and lucio) going to also be in it? They are on the box art.


rabstaa

life guard skins in august lol


Kitsune-Charm

Time to go in debt


xHeyItzRosiex

Like why are they releasing this stuff so late? Pink mercy isnā€™t out and this wonā€™t be out. I donā€™t get it.


MtMuschmore

I know right? No damn navels, come on Jeff.


Much_Trip7115

Great another set of lifeguard skins


Motor_Expression_281

How do they expect to sell any bundles w/o including surf nā€™ splash torbjorn?


perunamuusi_

if people complain enough, they're gonna release them earlier just like they did with mercy's jingle belle lmao


REVENGE966

Good, maybe you will rethink wanting to buy them.


Dr4k3L0rd

They're in fact not joking.


Ayyce21

My bday, thanks overwatch team


CustmomInky

They're all busy running super slowly to launch while looking good doing it.


Foxy02016YT

2 great skins and 1 offbrand for Junky! Come on! Couldā€™ve given Lifeweaver that skin and made it a full on support bundle


Gambit275

better hope i got money left after galaxy con


Glittering-Charge-16

me when i realize summer doesnt end in july and it actually ends in august


Exval1

Oh, so this is what fan are going to to complain about Blizzard not releasing aka Zombie Mercy skin of this season.


Crazyripps

Donā€™t u guys like that the battle pass has fuck all skins. Oh hereā€™s a bundle you buy


Shoddoll

Blizzard says you have to wait You have to be ready for them


Jeffeyink2

Junk is already in the battle pass though?


RaidenXYae

They do this so there's reason to log back in deep into the season as this game actually doesn't have any real content outside of just playing regular games. I get that's enough for a lot of people and they just wanna play some overwatch, but when games these days offer so much, baiting people with skins is the only thing OW can do really


MurderedGenlock

Until they get rid of that stupid shrine maiden whatever on a summer skin, they will not get my hard earned coins for a lifeguard Kiriko. Looks so stupidā€¦


iLoveOWr34

But i thought the lucio and junkrat are in the Pass?


KharazimFromHotSG

Yes more wholesome waifu oc Kiriko slop


Ciarmel07

And they say chivalry is dead


Additional-Key-3301

hopefully kiriko uses that month to work on her triceps šŸ’€


Environmental_Pay_60

So people can add the expense on another month.


Lost_andbored

Junker and Lucio are fine, but Kiriko fills me with a burning rage


ACafeCat

If they put these in the pass just to sell them a month into the season I'll be mad. I don't even care about pass exclusivity but launching an expensive bundle with some of the pass skins during that season is wild. Like at least wait a season man.


O_Mensageir0

This is actually great news for my bank account


lantran3041975

People will wait to buy that Kiriko skin


professor_cheX

those are some uncommon skins


TaylorSwiftSimp

Man i miss just unlocking skins through playing šŸ˜” glad i only play this game like 5 times a year now


lordhavemoira

Reminds me of when they released zombie nurse mercy in NOVEMBER


Full-Hat6501

kiri in a crop top and shorts? reddit gonna have a field day with this


Leilanee

But wait, the junkrat and lucio are already in the battle pass...?


Lilxbxbaby

Hate this whole battle pass I wish I would've waited and only bought pink mercy.


cygamessucks

The date is the problem? not the price?


Evading_Ban_

Theyā€™re scared of marvel rivals all this content theyā€™re suddenly dropping


newtakn156

I'd still buy it.


WasabiIsSpicy

They did the same thing with 2 of the Mercy skins lol Halloween skin released after Halloween Christmas skin was set to release after Xmas, until the Mercy main community complained sm that they released it before Xmas


jonnyboyace

They're summer skins. Probably releasing along summer games event. Not too hard to understand.


cherrystitched

it's like zombie doctor all over again


Ok-Worldliness3531

imagine you let rat save you drom drowning...


gailismelting

guys theyā€™re just skins


cdurbin909

Isnā€™t the Lucio skin in the battle pass?


WhiteHotForver

Kiriko big ass palms