Blizzard is offering Overwatch 2 players a vacation dainty successful the signifier of a Gingerbread Bastion skin. It’s precisely what it sounds like: the leader shooter’s robot, made wholly of gingerbread and candy canes. His vertebrate companion is adjacent made retired of gingerbread, and the full getup is ace cute. The tegument and a candy cane limb charm are disposable present arsenic a cheap, one-Overwatch-Coin package, but what was apt meant arsenic a motion of vacation goodwill comes with a notable irksome drawback: now, my Overwatch coin equilibrium is nary longer a bully circular number.

If you, similar galore others, are the benignant of idiosyncratic who needs to crook the measurement connected your TV up oregon down truthful the level fig ends successful a 5 oregon zero, you apt cognize what this means. Now, nary substance however galore coins you gain done completing play challenges oregon paying for them outright, you volition ne'er person a level fig again, arsenic each the coin amounts you tin get successful Overwatch 2 end successful zero already. So, if you bargain the Gingerbread Bastion skin, determination volition ever beryllium a pesky 9 astatine the extremity of your currency. Unless Blizzard releases thing with a outgo that ends successful nine.

I joke, but the discrepancy really does person a tangible effect connected your utilizing the Overwatch 2 store. All the cosmetics you tin bargain successful the in-game store outgo circular numbers, and there’s nary mode to bargain Overwatch Coins for immoderate little than 500 coins ($4.99). So, for example, accidental you wanted to bargain a tegument that costs 1000 Overwatch Coins, but you conscionable bought the Bastion tegument for 1 coin, bringing your equilibrium to 999 Coins. You’d beryllium 1 coin distant from buying the tegument you wanted, but the lone means you’d person of instantly closing the spread would beryllium to wage astatine slightest $4.99. The adjacent quickest mode would beryllium to implicit 4 play challenges, which would springiness you 30 Coins, but is, of course, much clip consuming.

Ultimately, due to the fact that of the grindy systems the Overwatch 2 store has successful place for acquiring currency, a tegument costing 1 coin has a fistful of weird drawbacks, whether that beryllium from it putting your coin equilibrium successful a weird spot successful its economy, oregon you having to woody with a non circular fig successful your wallet staring backmost astatine you each clip you unfastened the store. But arsenic a vacation gift, it’s the thought that counts, I guess?

Outside of seasoned Bastion skins, Overwatch 2 is presently hosting its yearly Winter Wonderland event, which includes a caller mode that harkens backmost to erstwhile Mei could frost everybody successful place.