I Opened 100 Winter Wonderland Loot Boxes In ‘Overwatch,’ And Here’s What I Got

By Paul Tassi for Forbes Magazine.

Overwatch’s Christmas/Holiday event is upon us, and that means it’s time to open some presents. Like the Summer Games and Halloween events before it, Overwatch has dumped a bunch of new holiday-themed skins, sprays, emotes and more into the game, and it’s up to players to earn and buy them for a limited time.

As is tradition, every time an event like this happens, I open 100 loot boxes. This is much easier in Hearthstone where I can save up gold to buy packs and Blizzard also gifts me free stuff, but I have no such luck in Overwatch, where I will be paying out of pocket. But that’s fine! I do it for you, dear reader. And also myself because I am a skin-collecting addict.

I’m going to open these 100 boxes over the next half hour or so, and I will chronicle everything I get, including any of the cool new skins which have not leaked before this event, surprisingly. I am not looking at social media so I can remain surprised by what I find, and join me in seeing what’s in this giant pile of boxes.

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Alright, whew, that was a lot of unwrapping. Here are all the Winter Wonderland goodies I got in 100 boxes:

Voice Lines – 17

Sprays – 39

Icons – 35

Poses – 14

Highlight Intros – 3

Emotes – 2

Legendary Emotes – 1

Epic Skins – 10

Legendary Skins – 7, Santa Torb, Santa Mei, Nutcracker Zenyatta and four copies of Elf Tracer

And I got 11 Legendaries of cash/old skins that were not Winter Wonderland. I also got a little less than 5K in gold from all the duplicates.

As a reminder, you can buy seasonal items with credits now, for triple the prices. As such, I’m going to buy the skins I missed, like Yeti Winston or Ice Ghoul Reaper. Zarya’s legendary emote is interesting, as it’s pretty funny and changes each time (well, three total times). But I’m not sure an emote is ever going to be worth 3,000 credits unless you’re spamming it all game.

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All in all I did have a pretty great legendary drop rate, with 18 Legendaries in 100 boxes. Yes, only 7 were Winter Wonderland, but I got four copies of Tracer, and the only one I actually had to buy was Winston. No complaints there.

Some of these are a tad lackluster, but others are pretty fantastic, and I think this will be a popular event like the last two have been. There’s a new all-Mei snowball brawl that I’m about to go play, and lord knows I am done buying boxes for the rest of this event.

So, any of that seem like something you’d be interested in? Head on out there and earn some boxes to open, or just cheat like me and buy them.