Buying Overwatch Loot Boxes for New Skins May be a Waste of Money

Overwatch’s recent patch on Jan. 23rd added a new map and over 100 new cosmetic items, including 12 new legendary skins to the game. As with almost all content in the game, you can’t purchase the new skins directly, but they must be gotten by luck from loot boxes. However, unlike new skins from special events, these skins are being pulled from the regular loot box pool of skins instead of from the special event loot table.

What does that mean for you? If you don’t currently own many of the older skins from the standard loot boxes, the odds are definitely NOT in your favor of obtaining one of the awesome new skins.

All this stuff is going into the regular Overwatch loot table. It’s pretty rare that Blizzard adds new cosmetics to the base loot table; the studio has only done it to add skins for new champs, or to make Heroes of the Storm promo skins available to all Overwatch players. When Blizzard has released batches of cosmetics, those items have usually been associated with an event, like Halloween, Christmas or the game’s first anniversary. Event skins are only available during their event, which typically runs for three weeks. These new skins, however, will be available from regular boxes, all the time. There’s no rush to acquire them.”

Read the full article: Don’t buy Overwatch loot boxes to get the new batch of skins @ Polygon.com