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Overwatch: Game of the Year Edition Coming to the Xbox One on May 23rd

The full game.
10 Bonus Loot Boxes with cosmetic goodies for your Overwatch heroes.
Origin Skins for 5 Overwatch heroes.
A Baby Winston Pet for adventures in World of WarCraft.
The Tracer Hero for battling it out in Heroes of the Storm.
And more!

Plus Overwatch® - 50 Anniversary Loot Boxes with basic description

Celebrate Overwatch's anniversary with a batch of commemorative treats for your heroes during a new event: Overwatch® Anniversary! Kick off the celebration with a bang by picking up Anniversary Loot Boxes*. Every Loot Box contains up to four cosmetic items, including at least one Anniversary Skin, Spray, Highlight Intro, Emote, Victory Pose, Player Icon, or Voice Line. More than 100 Anniversary goodies are waiting for you! If your Anniversary Loot Box contains an item that is already in your collection, you will instead receive in-game Credits that you can use to acquire many customization options. *Anniversary Loot Boxes are available to purchase or earn in-game until June 5, 2017.

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

Might grab it. I'd assume PS4 as well?

 

[Mush]

Oh shit, right on time for when I finally get fibre at my new pad. Back to the grindstone for me.

 

[KZXcellent]

Excited to throw my money at the screen. Bring on the hype skins. Zarya can still be redeemed!

 

[Maximo]

Excited to throw my money at the screen. Bring on the hype skins. Zarya can still be redeemed!

They will never make a good Zar skin =(

 

[daripad]

Please no Dva skin, my money is not ready

 

[The God]

Price?

 

[GoodCoffeeJoey]

The event should start Monday, assuming a duration of three weeks.

 

[ponpo]

Pls more quality of life changes on console. Radio commands etc. I know this doesn't make money like dva meme emotes but blizzard pls.

 

[giancarlo123x]

My goddamn poor wallet.

 

[pagrab]

10 boxes seems like a really small bonus TBH.
Also, one hero from the game in which they have already given people twenty heroes for free?

 

[kami_sama]

10 boxes seems like a really small bonus TBH.
Also, one hero from the game in which they have already given people twenty heroes for free?

And I think you can get it on one of the free packs lol

 

[pagrab]

And I think you can get it on one of the free packs lol

Yep, I got it from there.

 

[Shotgun Kiss]

They will never make a good Zar skin =(

The Summer Games skin is OK. Definitely her best one.

 

[Mediking]

Wow.... now that sounds tempting... might get it on PS4 and finally try to see why Overwatch is so popular.

 

[AkimbO_Arcana]

I'm on vacation during that time. The nightmare becomes true 😱

 

[Nightbird]

Is Overwatch really the kind of game that needs a GotY Version?

 

[Lemonte]

If Zarya doesn't get cool skin I'm going to uninstall Overwatch.

 

[capitalCORN]

Is Overwatch really the kind of game that needs a GotY Version?

No, but people wanted a full fat release so, Blizzard might as well run the well dry.

 

[Jimnymebob]

Is this not just the Origins edition, but with 10 loot boxes?
Will Noire Widow be included?

 

[Jacobson]

oh wow. if only my friends would be interested in buying this lol. i always fail to convince them to try out overwatch

 

[The_White_Rose]

Will people with Origins Edition get upgraded to this?

 

[giancarlo123x]

Will people with Origins Edition get upgraded to this?

What is there to upgrade? This is an incentive for new buyers.

 

[Yukinari]

Two events this close to each other seems really money hungry.

Should just be a big update with items you can get at any time. Watch the Sombra sitting pose be exclusive to this event.

 

[Zomba13]

I look forward to getting a billion shitty voice lines and sprays and multiple dupes of the event voice lines and sprays and a single costume if I'm lucky.

 

[Maximo]

Two events this close to each other seems really money hungry.

Should just be a big update with items you can get at any time. Watch the Sombra sitting pose be exclusive to this event.

Being the anniversary some items should just be put into the permanent pool of skins,ect.

 

[Auctopus]

I was expecting the Anniversary loot boxes to have items from events throughout the past year.

I wonder what the Anniversary theme will be? Bride Mercy.

 

[bloodyroarxx]

Excited to throw my money at the screen. Bring on the hype skins. Zarya can still be redeemed!

They really need to at least bring over her HotS skins

 

[Ayumi]

So GOTY Xbox edition is basically Origin's Edition? Then what will PC users get as GOTY? Am I reading things wrong?

 

[hydruxo]

That's cool. After the abysmal drop rates in the last event I won't be buying any lootboxes anymore though.

 

[giancarlo123x]

They really need to at least bring over her HotS skins

It's unbelievable that a game she's a guest in has skins 100x better than the main game, they're so good.

 

[ToyMachine228]

Wondering if the Anniversary event will have any other kind of content aside from loot boxes?

 

[Spades]

Might finally jump in with this - hopefully it'll bring an influx of other noobs as well so I do not get destroyed every single game.

 

[Newtype-001]

Wow.... now that sounds tempting... might get it on PS4 and finally try to see why Overwatch is so popular.

I thought you tried it already and hated it 🤔

 

[singhr1]

So GOTY Xbox edition is basically Origin's Edition? Then what will PC users get as GOTY? Am I reading things wrong?

Origins version exists on every platform. This is just giving you bonus lootboxes as GOTY edition.

It's unbelievable that a game she's a guest in has skins 100x better than the main game, they're so good.

There's also Evangelion skins for OW characters (Genji and D.VA) in HotS and im crying.

I don't understand the 50 anniversary loot boxes. Are they giving us that or do we have to pay ?

You really think it's the former? OP just posted a link to the description from the Xbox Store page.

 

[Phoenix944]

I don't understand the 50 anniversary loot boxes. Are they giving us that or do we have to pay ?

 

[AkimbO_Arcana]

Might finally jump in with this - hopefully it'll bring an influx of other noobs as well so I do not get destroyed every single game.

You'll be fine. Most of the time Overwatch feels like playing chess with a toddler. Problem is there are toddlers on your team too.

 

[maouvin]

Two events this close to each other seems really money hungry.

Oh yeah they totally need the revenue after those official numbers. Yeah.

I don't understand the 50 anniversary loot boxes. Are they giving us that or do we have to pay ?

It's just the store item that gets you 50 lootboxes. We'll likely get only one free lootbox like the previous events.

But I wouldn't be surprised that in Jeff's grace we end up with something like five free boxes.

 

[Ganado]

I don't understand the 50 anniversary loot boxes. Are they giving us that or do we have to pay ?

Celebrate the anniversary by giving us more money!

 

[Rickenslacker]

It's unbelievable that a game she's a guest in has skins 100x better than the main game, they're so good.

Ah I wouldn't worry, they'll probably make up for her lame skins by having a Juggalo Zarya skin for the anniversary.

 

[Phoenix944]

Haha ok, thanks

 

[Zomba13]

What would be nice if the anniversary was just an event they throw open the chance to get every event item. Make it so you get 1 item per box from any of the events but make the event time super short.

Also, Zarya's Arctic skins are fine. Her HotS skins are terrible. They look too over designed and try hard.

 

[ponpo]

Ah I wouldn't worry, they'll probably make up for her lame skins by having a Juggalo Zarya skin for the anniversary.

Juggalette*

 

[TatteredHat]

Just port over Zarya's Thunder Guard skin from HotS and we're good.

 

[Yukinari]

What would be nice if the anniversary was just an event they throw open the chance to get every event item. Make it so you get 1 item per box from any of the events but make the event time super short.

Also, Zarya's Arctic skins are fine. Her HotS skins are terrible. They look too over designed and try hard.

Events like summer games are seasonal and confirmed to come back every year so theres no point in doing that.

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

Events like summer games are seasonal and confirmed to come back every year so theres no point in doing that.

Receipts? I'll be glad to hear I can eventually get the Halloween skins for Reaper, Mercy and Zenyatta :]

 

[Veelk]

We know we got a Zarya skin coming.

My bets are a Hanzo skin (Personally I'm hoping Cyborg Hanzo, an alternative universe where Genji won their fight and Hanzo got recruited. But it's probably going to be the christmas skin from the comic), a Pharah, Symmetra, perhaps a new Soldier, Maybe Lucio, and Ana.

Those are all the heroes that haven't recieved much love lately in terms of event skins, atleast no legendaries, so I'm hoping to see them get some stuff.

 

[Yukinari]

Receipts? I'll be glad to hear I can eventually get the Halloween skins for Reaper, Mercy and Zenyatta :]

At the very least this post confirms summer games is yearly and not every 4 years for the olympics like some people believed.

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20747905428?page=7#post-134

But its not hard to guess that stuff like halloween, christmas and lunar near year will be mainstays as well. Not sure about Uprising though.

 

[The_White_Rose]

What is there to upgrade? This is an incentive for new buyers.

I just want the free boxes 😣

 

[giancarlo123x]

I just want the free boxes 😣

You do!

Spoiler

you get one and you appreciate it dammit!