“Style” is everything in a multiplayer game.
If you want us to spend money, open the flood gates.
'Nuff said.
Fake edit: Fire the person who tells you this thing that ppl will go for rarity above availabilty! No one cares, you are shooting yourself in the knee. You need 150 wins in comp to get a jade weapon by points, that should be good enough. Let us dress up how we want to express ourselves.
Artificial rarity is a rather insidious tactic, which is sadly rather effective.
People don’t want to miss out on something special, so they’re more likely to fork over the money to get it.
On the other hand, the delays that buying coins can have will likely make folks miss their purchase windows causing over all disappointment in the whole system and make them less likely to buy anything.
Let people buy skins if they want to. If blizz wants to uphold artificial rarity, then they can just delay some skins being purchaseable in the hero gallery. But after that, let them be available.
I understand seasonal skins only being available during their seasons, but at least make those seasons clear enough like halloween and xmas. There’s no point in witholding old battlepass skins beyond a few seasons for example.
Buying the skins outside of the pass is understandably going to be more expensive, but at least make them available.
I agree with you 100%. Why is it that the shop only features limited-time content? Why limit these awesome cosmetic and such items for purchase? I’m sure if all items (except for maybe holiday and event-specific things) were available for purchase all year round, Blizzard would make more money from cosmetic sales. For instance, if Lifeweaver’s Cleric skin was available for purchase right now, I’d absolutely buy it. But I missed the skin by just a few days!
Furthermore, it’d be really cool and awesome, and potentially very lucrative for Blizzard, if they made it possible to obtain previous battle passes and play for them, and to obtain those items previously available in those battle passes. I’d really love to get Kiriko’s Amaterasu and Rogue skins, but as of right now, it’s impossible for me to do so, just because I didn’t play the game at the time those skins were available. Why leave potentially hundreds of thousands of players out of having the opportunity to obtain these cosmetics, simply because they didn’t play the game or otherwise couldn’t obtain those cosmetics at the time they were available, perhaps due to financial issues or otherwise? Please give us the opportunity to obtain these cosmetics sometime in the near future, Blizzard.
I think the devs have spoken about possibilities that previous mythic skins might be available in some form, perhaps as a choise of which mythical you want to play for in a pass.
So far it’s only talk, but they are aware that peopme want ways to unlock the past mythic skins.
They are trying to find the optimal solution, but we’ll see how long it’ll take for them to incorporate any of it.