Overwatch players are used to a lot of things. We are used to getting headshot out of nowhere by a Widowmaker we couldn’t see, we are used to teammates refusing to push the payload, and we are used to Blizzard finding creative ways to ask for our credit cards.
But the community’s collective jaw hit the floor when the price tag for the brand-new Ultra skins officially went live.
Blizzard recently introduced this new Ultra tier of cosmetic rarity, pitching it as a step up from Legendary skins with flashy visual and sound effects. The problem? One single Ultra skin costs 3500 Overwatch coins.
If you want to translate that into real-world adult money, you are looking at roughly $35. For one digital outfit. For one character in a first-person game where you can only see your own hands most of the time anyway. The immediate backlash from the player base has been loud, angry, and honestly pretty hilarious.
Gamers Alarmed at Ultra Skin Price
The reaction across Reddit and the official forums was a beautiful symphony of pure outrage. As soon as the shop reset, players noticed that the 3500 price tag did not even include a bundle with a highlight intro or a weapon charm. It is just the skin.
One response on X summed up the absolute disbelief perfectly: “3500 FOR JUST ONE SKIN??? WTF, BLIZZARD HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND???”
Another player couldn’t help but laugh at the sheer audacity of creating a whole new rarity tier just to justify inflation, writing, “LMAOOOOOOOOOO I knew it that making that rarity was just to increase the prices and charge more than a legendary these greedy bastards.”
The consensus is overwhelmingly clear. It feels like a massive cash grab designed to test the absolute limits of what players are willing to spend, rather than an addition that actually makes the gameplay experience better.
A Dark Day for the Nostalgic Veterans
For the players who have been around since the original Overwatch launched back in 2016, this new pricing model feels like a dystopian alternate reality. Back in the day, you bought the game once, and you earned everything else just by playing and opening loot boxes.
Now, a single character skin costs more than half the price of a brand-new AAA video game.
As one veteran player pointed out: “People who spend this amount of money on Overwatch definitely did not play before it went F2P. Thinking about what I could get out of 45 event loot boxes when I see that price tag.”
It is a stark reminder of how much the gaming industry has shifted toward aggressive monetization. To make matters worse, players have noted that some older Legendary skins from years past already had custom sound effects and visual tweaks included at no extra cost.
Charging nearly double the price of a standard Legendary skin for features we used to get normally feels like a step backward for everyone except Blizzard’s bank account.