Overwatch 2’s mythic skin prices revealed to be (unsurprisingly) very expensive

polygon.com:

Overwatch 2 season 10 is now live, with a few important changes to how Blizzard is monetizing the game. Most notably, the hero shooter’s new hero Venture is free for all players, and no longer locked behind the battle pass. Overwatch 2’s battle pass now also pays out multiple kinds of currency, including the premium paid currency known as Overwatch Coins and a new type of currency called Mythic Prisms, which players can spend on mythic-tier skins.

In addition to offering Mythic Prisms as part of the premium battle pass, Blizzard is also selling that new currency, letting Overwatch 2 players catch up on mythic skins they may have missed from past seasons’ battle passes. The price of Mythic Prisms may be eye-watering for players who are looking to directly purchase mythic skins, but likely won’t be a surprise for longtime Overwatch fans who have been conditioned to expect to pay $20 or more for a single skin.

Mythic Prisms are now being sold through Overwatch 2’s in-game store in three bundles:

A base-level mythic skin, without additional customization options, costs 50 Mythic Prisms, or $39.99. A fully-upgraded mythic skin costs 80 Mythic Prisms. That makes the total starting cost of a complete Mythic skin around $70, depending on which bundle players purchase.

That sticker shock will likely lead to a lot of grumbling about the cost of mythic skins, since that’s equivalent to the costs of many AAA console and PC games. But for players who purchase the premium battle pass (which costs $9.99), they’ll get enough Mythic Prisms each season to purchase a fully upgraded mythic skin if they invest the time to complete the pass up to level 78 (out of 80 tiers).

Here’s how Blizzard explains how players earn Mythic Prisms over the course of completing the premium battle pass:

Starting on Tier 8, you’ll collect 8 Mythic Prisms every 10 tiers until Tier 78.

At Tier 48, you’ll be able to unlock the base level of Mythic hero skin that you want to collect.

Once you complete Tier