Now that Overwatch 2 fans can regularly get into the free-to-play game following Blizzard’s chaotic launch, there are still a handful of problems for the development team to work out. Multiple players are still reporting that several of the heroes are locked for them, or there are a handful of bugs and glitches happening, with Blizzard having to remove those characters temporarily, such as Bastion and Torbjörn. Among these in-game problems, many players are eyeing the Overwatch 2 store, and they’re not pleased with the prices of the heroic skins or the weekly rewards for earning coins to purchase them.
If players want to unlock any Epic or Legendary skins for an Overwatch 2 character, they need to purchase them from the in-game store. Prices of the skins vary, with Epics ranging from 1,000 to 1,500 Overwatch Coins depending on if a player is buying a skin or a bundle with emotes, weapon charms, voice lines, or sprays. For Legendary, it’s even more, cranking up the price to 1,900 to 2,000 depending on the skin and bundle. Unfortunately, there are only two ways to get Overwatch Coins: buying them using money or completing weekly challenges.
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Each week, there are 11 weekly challenges for players to complete, and players earn 30 Overwatch Coins for completing four, 20 Overwatch Coins for completing eight, and 10 Overwatch Coins for completing all 11 for a total of 60 Overwatch Coins.
In the grand scheme of the Epic and Legendary skins, 60 Overwatch Coins per week means that, for the lowest Epic skin, a player can expect to spend nearly 17 weeks grinding up through the weekly challenges to earn to buy one from the store, and that’s only if they
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