Players complained. Then they opened their wallets.

Overwatch’s Ultimate Battle Pass Bundle for Season 2 — a $39.99 package bundling the premium pass, 20 tier skips, 2,000 Overwatch Coins, and two Legendary skins — sits at #3 on Steam’s Top Sellers chart as of April 15, less than 24 hours after the season launched. The $9.99 Starter Pack, which throws 1,000 coins at you alongside a Panda Jetpack Cat cosmetic, trails just behind at #6.

This is the same pricing structure that drew fire over the $40 Genji mythic skin we covered earlier this week. Blizzard has form here. Forum threads dating back to late 2024 document a steady drumbeat of player frustration over exclusive cosmetics locked behind the ultimate bundle tier. One recurring complaint: after the Lilith Moira controversy, Blizzard reportedly promised that ultimate bundle skins would eventually become available for separate purchase with premium coins. According to players on Blizzard’s own forums, that commitment lasted one season.

None of which slows down the register. The Ultimate Bundle holds a 92% positive rating on Steam from 13 reviews. The top-voted review opens with unsolicited financial advice about building credit. The Starter Pack sits at 84% positive from 19 reviews, led by a user howling about cat skins in all caps.

“I don’t even play Mercy, and I still grabbed the season pass bundle just for it,” wrote one forum user, accidentally distilling the entire business model into a single sentence. Blizzard isn’t pricing these bundles for the people writing angry forum posts. They’re pricing them for the people who buy first and never post at all.

Season 2, subtitled “Reign of Talon — Summit,” launched April 14 with new DPS hero Sierra, an Antarctic Peninsula map rework, and a lineup of mythic cosmetics including the Genji weapon skin that kicked off this week’s discourse. The outrage is predictable. So are the charts.

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