Overwatch 2 gives you a skin when you gift €15 to the biggest and wealthiest Twitch streamers

The second beta of Overwatch 2 starts today, June 28th. Blizzard would like to reward your streaming consumption with an exclusive skin so that you can also keep busy with the shooter on Twitch. The catch: you have to give €15 to the best-known streamers.

In the first beta, Blizzard’s shooter had a gigantic, but very short-lived success on Twitch. For the second beta, which starts today at 8 p.m., Blizzard wants to lure you into Overwatch 2 streams in a different way.

If you give a total of 3 subscriptions on Twitch, you will receive an exclusive skin from Brigitte. But what annoys fans is the choice of streamers.

You only get the skin if you throw your ‘Gifted Subs’ to big streamers like xQc, Asmongold or DisguisedToast. The community finds that this gives the richest influencers even more money while the small ones are left behind.

Watch this trailer to see what Overwatch 2 has to offer when it launches in Free2Play on October 4th:

“Support a Streamer”: For 15 € on Twitch you get a Brigitte skin

Which skin is it? Under the “Support a Streamer” promotion you get the legendary skin “Medic Brigitte” for one of the strongest support heroes in the game.

To get this you need to give away a total of 3 Twitch Subs in chats from a select list of streamers between June 29th and July 19th. You pay €5 per ‘Gifted Sub’, so this skin costs you €15 in total.

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Which streamers do you have to support? This list of streamers to gift your subs to is sort of a who’s who on Twitch. Not only are well-known Overwatch streamers included. Other big names, some of which have little or nothing to do with Blizzard’s team shooter, are also listed.

Here is a small selection:

• Asmongold
• xQc
• DisguisedToast
• crayator
• JackFrags
• extralife
• A_Seagull
• ml7
• A_Seagull
• Noko
• LuLuLovely

MMO greats like Asmongold, streamers from other shooters like Apex Legends or Battlefield or even the controversial RPG wiki Fextralife are listed.

“Let’s at least support streamers who really need it”

This is what Overwatch fans are saying: In the Overwatch community, fans are very disappointed with this action.

On reddit, people say things like “I’d rather not, Blizzard” and list a number of reasons:

I’m usually quick to spend money on a new skin. But this is just a big no from me.

– Smaller streamers who could actually benefit from it can’t get it

– Amazon/Twitch takes 50% of that spend anyway

– About €15 is more than you pay for Overwatch League skins (these are worth €10)

– The skin is not of the quality you would expect from a Legendary

u/E Arkham on reddit

Another reddit user even says that the selected streamers are a bad influence:

The list of streamers leaves me with a really bitter aftertaste. Let’s at least support the creators who really need it instead of the big streamers, many of whom aren’t even in our community or are bad influencers.

u/Hey-Ying on reddit

So fans aren’t too keen on the idea of ​​giving the already biggest and richest streamers on Twitch even more money in exchange for just a skin. They hope that Blizzard will include more smaller streamers who would have more deserved the support of the community.

Blizzard responds to the criticism

What does Blizzard say about the criticism? AndyB, Blizzard’s Community Manager, has responded to angry fans on the official forums. This is how he answers a user:

You grossly overestimate what all but the most successful streamers actually make.

If you don’t want to donate to one of the big names, we’ve listed plenty of smaller, longtime Overwatch streamers who would appreciate your support

AndyB im Blizzard Forum

Furthermore, this is only the “first event” of this kind for which Blizzard “deliberately selected only a limited number of participants”. This has the purpose: “to collect data and to learn”. As such, Blizzard wants to “build on top of that model and most likely expand availability” if it’s successful. (via Blizzard forums)

What do you say about this action? Do you think they are good or completely wrong? What do you think of Blizzard’s reaction? Tell us in the comments.

In addition to a lot of traffic on Twitch, Blizzard also wants to make money in other ways with Overwatch 2 when it is released on October 4th as a free2play shooter. You can find out what the plans are here:

Overwatch 2 becomes Free2Play and removes loot boxes – this is how the shooter wants to earn your money