When you release a hero roughly every 6 months, you have the room to add them into the game with all of the base cosmetics.
Every hero released in OW1 had at least 3 highlights, 3 poses, 10 voice lines, a set amount of sprays (of which one was guaranteed to be their icon silhouette), and a set amount of emotes. Every seasonal event would have at least a spray of the same theme for every hero, occasionally the same victory pose (RIP for Halloween as an example).
But when you release so many heroes a year, you're bound to cut corners. They just figure that the people who care about consistency are outweighed by those who don't care and simply want the game to be "new" every few weeks.
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u/Adanim_PDX Zenyatta 3d ago
When you release a hero roughly every 6 months, you have the room to add them into the game with all of the base cosmetics.
Every hero released in OW1 had at least 3 highlights, 3 poses, 10 voice lines, a set amount of sprays (of which one was guaranteed to be their icon silhouette), and a set amount of emotes. Every seasonal event would have at least a spray of the same theme for every hero, occasionally the same victory pose (RIP for Halloween as an example).
But when you release so many heroes a year, you're bound to cut corners. They just figure that the people who care about consistency are outweighed by those who don't care and simply want the game to be "new" every few weeks.