Overwatch players have taken to social media to ask why retailers still have Overwatch on sale when the game is no long…
), retailers still have copies of Overwatch for both PS4 and Xbox One on sale - on this occasion, it's priced at $34 - even though the game essentially no longer exists.If you try to run a physical copy of Overwatch now, it'll install the game but on launch it will transfer to Overwatch 2 which, crucially, is free to play.
As some commenters quite rightly point out, the legendary edition comes with 15 skins that, theoretically at least, transfer over to the sequel… and given the price of some of Blizzard's premium skins, buying an old copy of Overwatch and getting skins that way may work out cheaper than buying them directly from the in-game store. As, though, not everyone got to keep their legendary skins in the merge of Overwatch 1 and 2.
Others made comparisons to Bungie's sci-fi shooter Destiny 2, which also started life as a physical premium game before switching to a free-to-play model.