There’s something of a stinky-bink going on about Mei’s 3,000 legendary winter skin.

As can be seen, it’s literally a red and green recolor of her BASE SKIN.  With a hat, and a bow for the buh-bomb.  Her ice block also turns her into a snowman with a hat.  But otherwise it’s a 75 coin recolor.  Possibly 250 because of the hat and snowman.  Since it’s a holiday item it would rightfully be boosted to 750 coins, which I think is fair. It’s not a legendary clearly, but 1,000 would still be an acceptable price, but by no means should it be 3,000.

THIS is a base 1,000 skin.

Notice how it’s new, everything.  New boots, new jacket, snow goggles, hat, gloves.  Everything is new.  That’s what a legendary should be.

Now, of course, not all legendaries are made equal.   Hanzo’s wolf for instance, is incredible. I can’t play him for shit but I bought it anyway. Totally different from the base skin on the left.

Additionally, his ult line changes because his ult changes from two dragons to two wolves.  So new skin, new lines, new ultimate.  His Halloween skin was cool, but really not a huge departure from his base skin, so why wasn’t there a huge thing for that?

I think Mei’s outrage was from a few things.  In the case of most of the other heros, they have several different outfits, not just recolors.  If we look at Mercy, she has the base skin, the devil/imp skin, the Valkyrie skins.  That was before anything else came out, so 3 unique skins.  Then she got the Swiss summer skin, which was a recolor but a touch above a base recolor at the 250 recolor range.  Then she got Witch Mercy, which was incredible with just being crazy sexy, AND a granted wish to get the costume from the postcard, AND she got the Halloween Junkenstein event lines “My servants NEVER die!” in addition to a few random lines like “someone called for a witch” instead of “called for a doctor” and so on.  And her weapon is a broom, it’s awesome.

Another example is Reinhardt, who has the base skins, the 250 recolors,  the helmet-less skins, the legendary skins, the Crusader skins (which are incredible), and a Halloween skin.

Then we look at poor Mei.  She has her base skins, the 250 base skin recolors, and 2 legendaries.  Basically 2 unique skins.   TWO. No summer skins, no Halloween skins.  Her legendary does not change her ult, wall, or freeze.  No new skins from LAUNCH.

That’s why the xmas skin, even with the snowman, is a bit of a slap.  She’s still more or less at 2 skins.  TWO!!!

Symmetra is somewhat in the same boat in that her legendary skins don’t really “do” anything  But, she got a skin for Halloween and she has the base skin, the “India” skins (I don’t know what else to call them), and the architect skins. 3 unique skins, 3.5 if you consider the halloween one was a pretty decent recolor.

With Mei at 2 plus a hat/snowman.  A perfect storm adding in a legendary holiday price tag.  If it went to 750, this would probably have blown right over, with a sprinkle hint of a completely new skin for the Chinese New Year.  I know red is lucky, but I want a blue and white sparkling cheongsam dress with white fur trim, a wand instead of a gun, and new reloading animations to account for the wand totally not being a gun.  So there.

Usually in games I end up with a ‘thing’.  Archers in Lineage 2 are douchebags, as are mages in WoW, paladins are selfless in both, I love rogues, and so on.

In Overwatch so far I want to dominate Reinhardts on the enemy team whenever I see them, and make them go down hard.  S76’s on my team  I will defend with my gun, or my life.  That’s my Soldier, bitches!

Hanzo’s are mildly irritating but Genji can die in a fire.  Again.

Added Jinx, another female player who actually added me first when we played a game.  Also added Cynavox who played a Roadhog and a D.va but we talked a bit.  I got mouthy with someone who was trying to give him a hard time with Dva, so that’s probably why he sent the invite.  I don’t put up with salt in quick play.

Play whatever you want, bad, good, I don’t care.

It seems like a lot of people that I was playing Overwatch with, aren’t logging in any more.  Bridgetroll was having personal issues so he’s been out, and some of the people that I played with a few times at the start haven’t been on in weeks, like Ashven.

I took a friend invite from a S76 player named Loveboss after doing a string of medium AI battles with their group, and added someone named Solstrom who was ok to talk to.  I added Shiro, who was a Reinhardt who asked for someone to heal, and I switched because they were already tanking.  They typed a lot, so I threw an invite, and we played together as a 5 man party last night.  It was pretty bad, losing a whole lot, with one talkative guy who was new, but I don’t really care.  As long as I’m not playing in silence, it’s fine.

After 85 levels, not a single Mercy skin, intro, or pose dropped so I finally bought the Valkyrie skin, and what do you know, Devil dropped right after.

I really like the blue wings on Valk though.