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Overwatch 2 unveiled a fresh look for Lucio, the Cyber DJ skin, this premium outfit available in the store for 2800 Overwatch Coins.

However, just hours after, it was announced that it would soon be completely free to unlock as part of the Overwatch 2 Spotlight event on February 12. To get Lucio’s Cyber DJ outfit for free, players simply need to watch one hour of partner streams to earn the new skin as a Twitch Drop.

While it’s commonplace for particular skins to be paid in Overwatch 2, the community has slammed the devs for making this new look free less than a day after it arrived in stores.

On Reddit, players threatened to quit Overwatch 2 altogether. “I just impulse bought this skin last night to find out today that it will be free. I don’t want to quit Overwatch, but things like this make me one step closer to uninstalling,” expressed one user.

Across X (formerly Twitter), players called this move from Blizzard “evil” and “scummy” and are “truly shocked” that a paid skin was made free less than 24 hours after its launch.

On the official Overwatch 2 Blizzard forum, one player questioned if users would be “getting a refund for Cyber DJ Lucio” now that it’s available for free.

The developers have not yet responded or provided updates on the situation despite the controversy only continuing to grow and spread online.

Overwatch 2 players demand refunds as new paid skin made free after less than a day - Dexerto

The Overwatch 2 community is demanding refunds after a paid skin was made available for free less than a day after being added to the store.

www.dexerto.com

 

[Ovek]

Sounds like a miscommunication between departments rather than anything evil or malicious.

 

[Hookshot]

Looks like a Concord character

 

[adamsapple]

Overwatch 2 unveiled a fresh look for Lucio, the Cyber DJ skin, this premium outfit available in the store for 2800 Overwatch Coins.

However, just hours after, it was announced that it would soon be completely free to unlock as part of the Overwatch 2 Spotlight event on February 12

lol that's a pure dick move, no other way around it.

refund that shit.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Not technically free. Looks like you had to watch an hours worth of OW2 gaming on Twitch.

But still a weird conflict of sale and promotion.

 

[MayauMiao]

I'm convinced it went free because nobody bought this hideous skin.

Did Blizzard hired someone from Concord?

 

[Revolutionary]

“I just impulse bought this skin last night to find out today that it will be free. I don’t want to quit Overwatch, but things like this make me one step closer to uninstalling"

These are the people still playing Overwatch. Impulse buying skins and still refusing to quit even after being ripped off.

 

[tkscz]

What is even this skin? It's way too busy and did they give the man tits?

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I'm convinced it went free because nobody bought this hideous skin.

Did Blizzard hired someone from Concord?

Why would they need to ? The game is dumpster fire at this point anyway:

Twitch.tv audience:
Overwatch 2: 10k
Apex: 18.3k
COD: 29k
Fortnite: 46k
Valorant: 111k
CS: 170k