Some Overwatch 2 Players Are Getting the Brigitte Medic Skin for Free

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Blizzard has been working to get as much promotion and eyes on its Overwatch 2 Beta as possible, including promotions and mini-events aimed at drawing attnention of fans around the world. That means coming up with creative ways to offer incentives to fans that watch Overwatch 2 gameplay.

Unfortunately, there are instances where all ideas cannot be executed in the same way due to external circumstances. An Overwatch 2 fan found one of these alterations infuriating and shared their frustrating discovery with other Overwatch fans on Reddit. AnOverwatch fan noticed that the Chinese Overwatch fans were offered a different way to earn the Medic Brigitte as part of its Overwatch League Midseason Madness promotional rewards.

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Chinese fans that watch at least 2 hours on Bilibili between July 19-21 will get the Medic Brigitte skin. Everywhere else the skin was offered, was as part of a promotion with Twitch and a select group of Twitch streamers. To earn the skin, fans of Overwatch or the streamer had to gift 3 Twitch Subs ($15 or the regional equivalent). For reference, the Overwatch League Perks for watching the Midseason Madness tournament are 5 tokens per hour watched, all 2022 Overwatch League Team sprays after 2 hours, and the default Overwatch League Home and Away skin for Widowmaker after 5 cumulative hours watched.

Overwatch fans were not happy about finding out this detail, and the original post calling out the practice expressed the user's frustration as being «salty» about finding out this information. Some comments shared the original poster's frustrations and called attention to other instances in the past where Blizzard's Chinese arm and its Chinese partners