Blizzard announced a few weeks ago that they were bringing back Pink Mercy to Overwatch 2, and since then there has been quite a commotion in the community, with some devastated by the skin's return and others more than happy.

Pink Mercy is one of the rarest skins in Overwatch 2. Originally sold as part of a charity drive for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the skin was only available for a short time, and Blizzard has since announced that it will not be returning. The Lego Bastion was part of a short-lived collaboration with Lego, and Winston's Blizzcon Noir skin was sold for only one year before being discontinued. However, none of these rare skins are as sought after by "Overwatch 2" players, as they are neither Mercy nor pink.

There are several websites selling accounts (which are banned in Blizzard's TOS), and a look at the most popular ones shows that some are over $1,000, while others are in the triple digits. Believe it or not, these prices have dropped significantly from just a few weeks ago: before Blizzard announced that it was bringing back Mercy Skin again to support the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, almost every account was worth several thousand dollars. But now, as pink Mercy skins are no longer as rare as they once were, these accounts have dropped in value from a few thousand to a few hundred dollars apiece. While that is still a ridiculous price to pay for an Overwatch account, it still seems to be a significant blow to black market sellers.

However, there are plenty of other players who are madly in love with the return of skins. One player said in a Reddit thread, "I feel like a mafia boss laughing in his executive chair as I watch the black market completely collapse."

For a long time, the skins were accompanied by strange rhetoric, with some players claiming that if you didn't have this skin, you weren't a Mercy main player." People who were saying that it was already shameful to gatekeep a regular skin, but that pink [Mercy] needed to stay restricted to show who was a noob and who wasn't, because it was a charity skin, was a whole other kind of sneaky sack of shit," another player says. Fortunately, we don't see the same kind of rhetoric around Pink Mercy anymore. Most players know that Pink Mercy is not the best opinion to share around, and also because it's probably not as rare as it used to be.

It remains to be seen how much money these new Pink Mercy skins will raise (they raised nearly $13 million back in 2018), but based on other metrics, they seem to be quite popular; yesterday, a day after Pink Mercy was added to the store, "Overwatch 2" soared to #4 on Steam's bestseller chart: one player tweeted, "This is the true power of Mercy Skin."

With 100% of the proceeds from the Pink Mercy Skin and Pink Mercy Skin Bundle going to the Breast Cancer Research Fund, it is encouraging to see that the spread of this skin has been quite successful. It may not be for everyone, especially for those who don't play Mercy much, but it is certainly a wonderful cause.