


I tried to make the anniversary event more enjoyable and unique.
First off, I want to say that this was really hard for me to do. Because on the one hand, I realize that the original event is just awful. On the other hand, I feel like I added too many rewards.
But man, this is the 10th anniversary of a game that reinvented the hero shooter genre. If it were the 8th, or maybe the 6th, or who knows, maybe the 7th anniversary, I wouldn’t have focused so much on the rewards. But come on. 10 years—a round and significant milestone for everyone connected to this game in any way.
💀1. The elephant in the room: recolors.
Make them challenge rewards. Just play 10 matches in Classic Overwatch on the hero you want a skin for.
Blizzard gives out 3 epic skins per loot box, but they’re literally useless. I don’t think even 50% of players play more than 5 heroes from the original roster.
Also, I can’t believe I’m writing this, but make all skins with an effect like Tracer’s. You know, where the light part glows.
👌2. 10 Legendary Loot Boxes.
You get the idea. 10 years, 10 loot boxes. You don’t have to give them all at once—10 for challenges.
1 could be given out in Twitch Drops. 4 for personal challenges, and 5 for completing community challenges.
(You could disable the default challenges for 3 loot boxes. That would be more than fair. Besides, they’ve done this before, more than once.)
👍3. Anniversary loot boxes contain items from previous Battle Passes. (up to Season 21)
This was a given. 20 loot boxes with 1 guaranteed legendary skin. Considering that Blizzard is already selling recolored Battle Pass skins, and Chinese players have been able to purchase Battle Pass skins.
🦍4. Animated sprays for 10 wins in Competitive mode.
Animated sprays are extremely rare as of 2026. And I just can’t bring myself to make them available in Quick Play and so on. Again, no one is forcing you to do them. Playing as Kiriko and want an animated spray for Kiriko? Getting 10 wins over the 21 days of the event won’t be a problem for you.
👋5. A unique, universal anniversary emote.
That would be an amazing reward. I don’t know—let the heroes count their fingers and hold up a ten. Let them clap in honor of the decade like in that damn Evangelion. Whatever it takes, but a universal emote like that has to exist.
👀6. 20 Mythic Prisms, just like in the fall of 2025.
📿7. Little things like titles, badges, and other trinkets can either be given out as Twitch Drops or simply added as bonuses for completed challenges with.
🚽8. Remove challenges that grant Battle Pass xp