Overwatch Is 50% Cheaper Until January 2nd, Standard Edition Is $19.99

Blizzard just gave gamers a major holiday present by slashing the price of its massively popular multiplayer shooting game Overwatch by half. Until January 2nd, U.S. customers can join their friends in team-based FPS glory for only $19.99 for the base game or $29.99 for the Game of the Year Edition. The latter option comes with skins and loot boxes to start the game in style.

This discount is quite timely on Blizzard’s part with a lot of exciting updates and events coming right around the corner. As PC Gamer notes, the developers are making some tweaks to the matchmaking to make it fairer, thus leading to fewer disadvantaged novices. There’s also the Overwatch League scheduled for the beginning of 2018.

Suffice it to say, the company is highly invested in drumming up as much excitement and interest from gamers as possible, and making the game cheaper will certainly do the trick. This should go a long way towards nudging gamers who weren’t sure about buying Overwatch to finally make that decision, bringing up its total number of players considerably.

For those who haven’t ever tried the game before, the base package that only includes the game is highly recommended. Skins and loot boxes can be gained later on by playing the game, so it makes no sense to buy the more expensive package of a title that players might drop right away.

For those who do have some extra money to burn, the $30 does come with skins and extra content that might not be available to players for a long while. Of course, these items are all cosmetic and there are no gameplay advantages to be expected. Then again, it does also come with certain items that are tied to Blizzard’s other games, including World of Warcraft, Starcraft II, Heroes of the Storm, and Diablo III, Gamespot reports.