Yesterday, Blizzard announced the latest lawsuit for Overwatch 2. In solemnisation of the Lunar New Year, the Year of the Rabbit seasonal event brings immoderate holiday-themed stylings crossed maps, and immoderate returning crippled modes. But a deficiency of compelling and earnable skins and cosmetics has fans disappointed, pining for the days of Overwatch 1. The caller skins are locked down the game’s shop; meantime the lone escaped skins are recycled from the erstwhile game.

Overwatch 2 launched successful October of past year. Rebranding itself arsenic a live-service shooter, implicit with a purchasable conflict walk and a assortment of antithetic timed challenges. With the archetypal Overwatch nary longer playable, having gone offline erstwhile the sequel launched, fans of the game’s unsocial team-based multiplayer are stuck with 2’s galore unpopular and contentious changes, which includes a simplification of 6v6 matches to 5v5 and the disappearance of the once-unpopular lootboxes; a much modern conflict walk and cosmetic store operation replaced it. Such alterations person proven precise unpopular with the Overwatch community. And the Year of the Rabbit Seasonal lawsuit doesn’t look to amended the antagonistic sentiment.

Though the lawsuit mightiness look breathtaking connected paper, with 2 seizure the emblem modes, a free-for-all mode deathmatch, existent rewards for playing the crippled are sparse—particularly erstwhile compared to the archetypal game. The lone caller skins, a Lunar New Year-themed getup for Mei and a non-event related 1 for Rammatra, are locked down the currency shop. And dissimilar erstwhile events successful Overwatch 1, determination isn’t a full batch to gain conscionable by playing the crippled extracurricular of a tegument from the archetypal game.

You don’t person to hunt acold to find disappointment brewing wrong the community. Several apical posts on the authoritative Overwatch forums travel a acquainted trend, with titles similar “Soo ..Same contented cycle, but worse?”, “I FEEL GROSS clicking Shop”, and “You person got to beryllium kidding me.” That precise past 1 cuts to the bosom of why, beyond a deficiency of new, earnable skins, the lawsuit seems to neglect the precise tone of the game’s ain characters.

“It’s the twelvemonth of the rabbit” the station starts, “and we aren’t getting a rabbit themed D.Va skin? D.Va’s full aesthetic is rabbit. Tokki [D.Va’s mech] is rabbit successful Korean! Her weapon is called the bunny blaster. She has a bunny hop emote. She has a dependable enactment saying ‘this rabbit fights back.’ But they’re giving Mei a rabbit themed skin?”

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Thematic incongruity aside, the deficiency of immoderate breathtaking skins to gain has fans feeling like the “legacy events are wholly pointless and worthless now.” A rising station connected Reddit lays retired a nonstop comparison betwixt however these events utilized to spell successful Overwatch 1 if you’re curious. Though the erstwhile crippled utilized arguable lootboxes with randomized prizes (which galore are lamenting the nonaccomplishment of) to woody retired escaped skins, determination were astatine slightest 3 caller skins earnable conscionable by playing the game. The existent lawsuit truly only introduces 1 caller skin, and it costs astir 10 bucks (which you request to redeem successful the game’s premium currency to purchase).

Overwatch 2’s Year of the Rabbit seasonal lawsuit is presently live, moving until February 6.