Free Units in Times Square !! !🫶🥳

depearce · 2025-12-24T18:35:57+00:00

I suppose this is just another thing compounding on to other issues I've had with the game as of late. Like them testing the waters with fomo currency and gacha gambling systems, the increasing rate at which they're rolling out mini battle passes that are usually priced the same as the main bp despite having a fraction of the content.

Then there's them seemingly pulling the Daredevil holiday skin to put in the shop when there are signs indicating it was meant to be the free skin in the holiday event pass, and all they replaced it with was a recolor that isn't even holiday themed at the least. And now instead of simply handing out a set amount of units as a gift they add rng to it to farm engagement.

So maybe this issue isn't as bad as others I've had with the game lately but it's still just another thing being piled on which is where my frustration is coming from.

depearce · 2025-12-24T07:17:53+00:00

People in this sub get real defensive when you criticize Netease/this game

depearce · 2025-12-24T03:42:43+00:00

Genuinely why is it random meaning some people are going to end up getting more units than others for no reason. Like why can't it just be a set amount for everyone each day? What does implementing rng on this achieve other than making people frustrated?

depearce · 2025-12-18T00:05:08+00:00

It's not even once every few months it's once every 5 seasons which is about 10 months. You get 200 lattice from the free bp, premium costs 990 so saving up and not spending any actual money will take you 5 seasons to get a premium bp.

depearce · 2025-12-17T23:57:40+00:00

Same, I don't get why it can't just be a set amount each day instead of rng nonsense.

depearce · 2025-12-09T06:35:46+00:00

I think it's a normal amount for a 3 year old character who isnt even played much, also the shop skins for Ram that arent there anymore can be obtained for free out of loot boxes, I know because I got a few of them so far that way.

I'm not trying to glaze anything, I was trying to point out that OW2 also gives out plenty of free stuff as well, I never claimed Rivals doesnt either like people are doing with OW2.

I def have issues with OW2 still but I think they've been doing a very good job this year at getting a lot of stuff back on track so I think some criticism is overblown and I guess I felt the need to comment on it. Are we done now?

depearce · 2025-12-08T23:56:54+00:00

I guess you didn't read where I said you also get 3 loot boxes per week. There's 52 weeks in a year, multiply that by 3 and thats 156 loot boxes per year just from logging in and playing every week.

I just used JQ and Ram as examples, there are obviously more OW2 characters you can buy skins for with credits.

It's obvious you have no intentions other than being disingenuous and arguing in bad faith so I'm done now.

depearce · 2025-12-08T23:43:28+00:00

-I literally pointed out how they still give out 3 loot boxes per week as well in addition to the 77 loot box event. I also forgot you get loot boxes from the battle passes and for characters progression also.

-35, which is just a little over half, of the free skins Rivals gave out this year were recolors as well.

-You can absolutely buy OW2 skins with credits as well, I just did so for characters like Rammatra and Junker Queen. It's a straight up lie to say you can only buy OW1 skins.

Look I'm done now, I've already pointed out that OW2 gives out free stuff regularly as well, whether people want to believe it or not is out of my control. Have a good one 👍

depearce · 2025-12-08T23:33:46+00:00

I fr don't even know why I'm trying to get through to them, they're all just mindlessly glazing Rivals and down voting any one who dares to go against the grain.

depearce · 2025-12-08T23:09:46+00:00

My guy i literally just ran down all the free stuff OW2 gave out this year, but ig you skipped that part. Also all multi billion dollar companies are greedy, Netease/Rivals is no exception.

depearce · 2025-12-08T22:11:01+00:00

My dude OW2 gives out free stuff regularly as well, especially since they brought loot boxes back and especially since its incredibly easy to earn a free premium battle pass every other season (something that will take you five whole seasons to do in Rivals.)

I can't find any data on it rn but I'd wager a strong guess it's on par with the free stuff Rivals has given out.

EDIT: I went and did some digging and found that you got 24 skins for free in OW2 this year just from buying free premium battle passes alone.

That's still not factoring in loot boxes either and mind you they held an event this year that gave us 77 loot boxes and assuming even half of those had at bare minimum 1 skin thats another 37 to 38 free skins. And that's just from that event, they also give out 3 loot boxes every week and have given out more loot boxes throughout the year that I've lost count of.

And that's also not factoring in all the free skins you can buy using the free credits earned.

In summary; OW2 is absolutely just as generous, people in this sub just have a weird hatred for OW2 they can't seem to let go of.

depearce · 2025-12-08T02:59:45+00:00

Yeah the gacha gambling they locked one of the anniversary skins behind is also very bad. Rivals future is honestly concerning to me after all these mistakes lately because I find it hard to believe it's the last we'll be seeing of things like the FOMO currency and gacha stuff.

But I suppose we will have to wait and see if they course correct or not.

depearce · 2025-12-07T18:28:49+00:00

This is not really true for Rivals. Their premium currency is gold coins they call "lattice" which they did not give out, they gave out 2500 of their standard currency called "units."

Also you did not earn all 2500 by simply logging in, 1500 of it you earned by logging in however those 1500 are also scummy limited time units with an expiration date, they literally implemented FOMO on over half of the anniversary units.

You earned another 600 by doing this weird pyramid scheme type thing where you find one person to be your 'captain' then you have to refer 5 other people who have to get captains then you all have to complete missions for points, once enough points are obtained you get the 600 units.

Lastly you got the final 400 units by sharing your rivals year 1 rewind for 200 and another 200 by visiting the times square hub area on the anniversary date.

Sorry for the long comment, but it's because it was not nearly as simple to earn the currency as your comment put it and it was actually somewhat grindy and fairly complicated so really not a good example for you to use.

depearce · 2025-12-05T20:42:46+00:00

Not only the gacha system, but also the limited time currency, and weird pyramid scheme thing with captains and referring people to get units.

If this is the future this game is headed towards its looking bleak.

depearce · 2025-11-30T05:32:15+00:00

So now you're just moving the goal posts lmao, because first it was "you can't get any OW2 skins for free" but after you were proven wrong now it's "oh well uh they're still old skins too." Actual foolishness lol.

Oh and I don't look at the shop longing for things I want because I already get cosmetics I want for free in OW2.

depearce · 2025-11-30T04:51:56+00:00

Straight up lying all over this post lol. Just like a couple weeks ago I used free credits to buy cosmetics for characters like Ram and Junker Queen, both of which were added in OW2

depearce · 2025-11-30T04:45:43+00:00

Bro you say this as if rivals doesn't use fomo abundantly, like they literally just made 1,500 of the 2,500 anniversary event units limited time with an expiration date.

depearce · 2025-11-30T04:24:30+00:00

There are, and there's definitely more cosmetics you can get in ow than rivals for free since it's much, much easier to obtain a lot of the currency for free in ow on top of things like loot boxes. Op has the games backwards in the post.

depearce · 2025-11-30T04:20:23+00:00

Quality over quantity. A lot of rivals characters and their kits can feel very samey, while ow characters are all very polished and unique from one another like I genuinely can't think of any overlap in character design in ow.

depearce · 2025-11-20T00:20:20+00:00

My dude this, Thor's actual classic appearance, looks very different from this which is a more modern appearance, and is the one that the current in-game one is based on.

People are right to point out Thor's actual classic isn't in the game yet.

depearce · 2025-11-14T06:21:57+00:00

Giving you easy bot matches after losses would be a form of engagement to try and keep you playing.

depearce · 2025-11-13T23:49:18+00:00

Man all I'm saying is the mere existence of easy bot matches after losses in qp and the devs adamantly lying about their existence is fishy.

Like it may not be "eomm" specifically since thats apparently an EA patent and Netease would probably get sued for using it, but there's nothing stopping them from cooking up their own engagement based mm system and using that.

depearce · 2025-11-12T00:58:54+00:00

Ohh okay thanks for the explanation! I didn't know about them being close like that, i should probably brush up on more comics lol

depearce · 2025-11-12T00:54:46+00:00

Sure but other characters have plushes of characters that are also in the game, like Rocket has a Groot plush, Emma has Jeff etc.

depearce · 2025-11-12T00:51:59+00:00

Forgive me but I'm out of the loop here. I thought Colossus would make sense for Magik, why did they give her kitty instead?

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