Players who want to collect all of Overwatch’s limited-time Olympic goodies will have to deal with disappointment. Blizzard said that it will be staying the course on its Summer Games promotion in which players only have through August 22nd to find, buy, and loot special skins, emotes, and sprays.
Responding to player outcry over the difficulty of obtaining all of these unlocks and the unavailability of straight-up buying them for credits, Game Director Jeff Kaplan told fans that the studio will be giving the event “more time” to see how it plays out.
“Sometimes we want things to feel rare and special,” he wrote. “We wanted to try something new with this event. As we mentioned in the developer update, we’re learning and experimenting with this event. And if the event is received well (my impression so far is that it is being received well once you remove the debate over the items not being available for credits), we will run it again next year.”
Kaplan said that Blizzard is keeping an eye on the event and might reconsider its approach to such promotions in the future.
