Though Overwatch 2’s hold times person seemingly improved aft attraction connected the game’s servers past night, you inactive mightiness privation to hold a spot if you’re looking for an wholly bug-free experience—especially if you don’t similar bugs that mightiness beryllium spending premium currency connected leader skins without your consent portion utilizing the in-game chat.

Though it’s not wide however communal the contented is, it seems to person been hitting users since launch, if not earlier. The underlying contented appears to beryllium that, portion utilizing the chat successful a menu, the crippled keystrokes are inactive registered by the different paper options, meaning you could navigate your mode to the store and extremity up buying a tegument portion you’re substance chatting with friends. Posts astir this connected the game’s Bug Report forum spell backmost to May, calling attraction to it during the beta. Other posts person gone up since the game’s authoritative release, and a rising station connected Reddit is seeing others chime successful with tales of their accounts besides inadvertently buying premium leader skins.

Approaching 1,000 upvotes connected Reddit, idiosyncratic Dracyoshi’s station lays retired the contented directly. “I was chatting with immoderate friends portion browsing the leader assemblage erstwhile the crippled unexpectedly began unlocking Junker Queen’s Plutonium skin,” they said. They spell connected to speculate that substance typed into the chat is “occasionally misinterpreted by the crippled [as] an input for navigating the menu.”

Though they followed up with Blizzard enactment connected the issue, there’s nary denotation that refunds oregon changes are connected the way. Dracyoshi told Kotaku that, since posting, Blizzard inactive hasn’t resolved the contented and maintains that it won’t contented refunds for purchases made with in-game currency arsenic acold arsenic this lawsuit is concerned.

Scrolling done the thread connected Dracyoshi’s station reveals different players echoing the aforesaid issue. “My person was a unfortunate of this bug,” reads 1 comment, “accidentally purchased Kirkos legendary for 1900 credits portion trying to chat.” “Oh my deity this happened to maine twice,” reads another, “I thought I was going crazy.”

For now, it seems similar champion signifier is to travel Dracyoshi’s proposal and not “use the in-game chat portion successful the leader assemblage until it’s fixed.”

Kotaku has reached retired to Blizzard for comment.