Blizzard introduced a currency system in Overwatch to support your favorite teams in the Overwatch League. The currency system involved the usage of Overwatch League tokens. These tokens are different from the regular in-game coins, which players receive upon winning a match or receiving duplicate skins.

The Overwatch league tokens are available for purchase within the game. They are a common currency which is used to buy the skins of any OWL team. Each team has its own color scheme and its own set of OWL skins.

The total amount collected from the sale of these Overwatch League skins would be moved into a common pool. While 50% of these sales would go towards Blizzard, the remaining money would be evenly distributed amongst the participant teams.

When Overwatch League announced the OWL – Twitch deal worth $90 million, it was expected that Twitch would engage in some type of rewards for watching the Overwatch League matches on their platform.

Nate Nanzer mentioned that the Overwatch League tokens system will receive big changes. He mentioned a time period of three to six months time, which is towards the end of Season 1.

We’ve got a lot of cool ideas, the most obvious of which is earning tokens and team skins

Viewers have received tokens

While nothing has been officially announced as of yet, users are reporting instances of receiving OWL tokens. These users have had their Twitch accounts linked with BattleNet. It’s only a few people who have come forth with these revelations, but it might signal an imminent update.

There have been different reports about the number of tokens received versus the number of hours watched. We still don’t know if there is a correlation between the two, but user screenshots definitely confirm token rewards.

It’s bad for European fans

We have seen similar systems in other esports titles such as CS GO. Obviously, it comes with a rider, that the Twitch accounts need to be watching the matches live. We don’t know yet if that is the case with Overwatch league, but it most likely is. Blizzard will want to boost the viewership numbers, similar to how CS GO got a big boost due to the Major drops in the game.

The Overwatch League matches are held at the Blizzard esports Arena, Los Angeles for Season 1. The Overwatch League timings are very bad for European fans. Most of the matches start around midnight for Europe.

With subsequent seasons, when the matches will be spread across the globe we will see a timetable better suited for fans all over the world. But for now, it’s going to be difficult for EU fans to watch the matches live.

How to link Twitch to battle.net?

In order to be eligible to win tokens, you have to ensure that your Twitch account is connected to your Battlenet account. If you do not know how to do this, follow these steps :

Go to https://www.twitch.tv/settings/connections Sign in to Twitch Check out the “Blizzard Battle.net option” and choose appropriate region Click on “Connect your Blizzard Games and Twitch activity” Sign in to Blizzard

It’s just five steps and will hardly take up more than five minutes of your time. The Token rewards reported are extremely low. However, if you are getting free tokens while enjoying the highest quality of Overwatch, it is definitely not a bad deal.

Unconfirmed Questions

There has been no official announcement about the OWL tokens being available to viewers as of yet. It has raised several questions which we hope Blizzard will address in their press release.

Are the tokens given out at a fixed rate per time watched?

Will the tokens also be given out to those watching via MLG.tv, the official website or Twitch mobile App?

Is the token reward system random?

We will update this post with more information as and when Blizzard announces it. Do you like the reward system? I will be buying London Spitfire skins with the tokens, what about you?

Edit: Blizzard has confirmed that the few tokens that users have received were a part of the testing phase. Blizzard will make the announcement regarding rewarding viewers with tokens soon.

Hey all, So sorry about the confusion on this. As part of a test of the Overwatch League viewership reward system, some viewers who had their Twitch account linked to their Battle.net account received League Tokens yesterday. The test has since ended, and we’ll have more details about content and rewards to share soon.

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