Developer Update | The Games Are Back!

Good evening everybody, welcome back to another Developer Update.
Last year for the first time, our first event ever, we ran the Summer Games.
And we learned so much from running that event.
You guys gave us tons of feedback.
As you saw throughout the year we iterated and changed our future events
based on that initial run with Summer Games.
Now I've been paying attention to a lot of social media and
I've been hearing the buzz everybody asking about:
When is Summer Games coming back?
Well, now is the time Summer Games is coming back very soon
and we wanted to set you up with some pertinent information so you knew what
was going to be the same and what was going to be different about
Summer Games this year.
So, first of all a question on a lot of people's minds is:
Are the skins that were available in Summer Games 2016 going to be
available again this year?
And the answer is absolutely, yes, we know you want a chance to
get that American McCree skin or the Nihon Genji.
You will absolutely be able to get those skins again.
Now the other thing, if you remember, not all of you
were around back for Summer Games 2016, but back then those skins were not
available for unlock via the credit system and that was something that we changed
based on your feedback.
Well, this is going to be the first year that Summer Games is
going to run where you'll be able to unlock the old skins for credits
as well as the new skins that are coming too.
So, that is also awesome.
Now as I mentioned there's new skins and new content coming as well
and I don't want to spoil it all, but I'll give some hints.
Roadhog, I'm sorry, Roadhog is not getting anything.
So, that was just me being silly.
Junkrat is going to get an awesome Legendary skin and I think you guys are
going to love it; it's very sports themed and our favorite Australian
is going to get a great skin.
Mercy, and that's why I'm wearing this shirt today,
Mercy is getting one of my favorite skins of all time and I'm so excited
for you guys to check it out.
And we have some other cool things happening as well.
I think Widowmaker and the McCree fans are going to be really
blown away with what we're going to deliver and there's some silly
stuff too and I'll just I'll just leave that for you guys and you'll know what
I'm talking about in a little bit.
But, the new skins will be available for credit unlocks just like every event
and as I mentioned those old skins are available too,
but we're going to do something different for the old skins.
We're going to discount the prices to normal loot box prices for the credit
cost of those skins.
So, for example if you want Tracer in her runner skin that
she had in Summer Games 2016, which was a Legendary, it will
only cost you 1000 credits versus the 3,000 credits that an event
Legendary normally costs.
We think that bringing the old items back is absolutely key for our players
who weren't able to get them the first time around and we also want to discount them
somewhat, so more of you can get more of those items you want and love while
still reserving some specialness for the brand new stuff.
So, not everybody's running around in all the coolest most brand-new stuff.
We also want to remind you that we've made significant loot box
changes which you guys have already seen a little bit of in our
normal loot box in regards to duplicates.
So, we drastically reduced the rate at which you're going to get
duplicates and we've never before felt this in one of our
event loot boxes before.
So, Summer Games will be the first time that you're experiencing the
much reduced duplicate rate in the loot boxes.
So, we think that'll be awesome.
Now a lot of you are thinking enough with the rambling about
skins and loot boxes all we really care about when it comes to Summer Games
is Lúcioball. Is it coming back?
And the answer is YES, Lúcioball of course is coming back not only that
but we have our beautiful Rio stadium that we built for 2016 and we're
proud to introduce Sydney, Australia as a new stadium for Lúcioball
to take place in.
Now we've also made some tweaks to Lúcioball based on feedback from
the first time around.
There's a couple things that have changed.
1) You can no longer stand in the enemy goal and BOOP the enemy
goalie out of the way.
We've removed the ability to BOOP your enemies because a lot of people
were finding that frustrating.
We also changed Lucio's ultimate in Lúcioball.
It used to pull the ball towards you very dramatically and there
was sort of some cheesy strategies about BOOPING the goalie stand and the
goal pull the ball in, etc. We made that go away.
So, now when you use Lucio's ultimate you move much faster, you can use
his alternate ability to BOOP the ball much more quickly and he
jumps a lot higher.
So, it's sort of like super Lúcio when he uses that ultimate.
We think you guys will really enjoy it.
We think the change is really healthy to Lúcioball and that will be great.
Now the thing that is probably most exciting about Lúcioball coming back
is we've really upped the stakes this time.
Not only can you just play Lucioball like you enjoyed it last year in
Summer Games but we've also added a new card to the Arcade
that's called COPA Lúcioball.
and what this means is competitive Lúcioball.
That's right, for three weeks during the Summer Games
we're going to be running a competitive Lúcioball system.
Not only that if you place if you play your ten games competitively
in Lúcioball you will get a special spray.
If you make it into the Top 500 of Lúcioball players in
your region you will get an additional special spray.
So, we can't wait to see how you guys do to see what your skill
ratings are, to see you know how great of a Lúcioball player
are you versus a normal Overwatch player.
We think this three-week season concept could be a lot of fun outside
of Lúcioball even.
So, we want to see how you guys respond to it.
We want to see how you guys play with it and what you think
about that.
So, that's an overview of Summer Games.
We're going to be releasing even more information leading up to the event.
We think you guys will have a ton of fun.
As always, we're listening to you for feedback and if we need to make
changes, we will.
We hope you guys enjoy Lúcioball, Summer Games, and
all the new loot box content and have a blast playing.
Thanks.

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