Blizzard is adding more rewards to Overwatch's 10th Anniversary event after criticism from players who felt the game's decade celebration was too thin. The change affects the remaining weeks of the event, turning the original community loot box track into a larger payout and adding a guaranteed Legendary skin bundle near the end.
In an update to its Reign of Talon midcycle post, Blizzard said Week 2 community loot boxes will be doubled and Week 3 community loot boxes will be tripled. During Week 3, every player will also receive a 10 Year Anniversary Loot Box with four guaranteed Legendary skins.
Blizzard says the revised event now guarantees 10 Legendary skins in total. The studio is also reducing the grind, with the number of games needed to earn all 15 Anniversary Loot Boxes dropping to 60. Wins count as double.
The anniversary event began May 12 and runs through June 1, with rotating throwback modes, global community rewards, original roster-inspired skins, 22 developer-made cosmetics and 11 cosmetics from community creators. Blizzard's first reveal positioned it as a broad celebration of Overwatch's history, but the reward structure quickly became the flashpoint.
Players had pushed back on the amount of free anniversary content, especially after the event launched with a heavy focus on recolored launch hero skins and loot boxes. The complaint stung more because this is not a normal seasonal beat. Overwatch turns 10 this month, and Blizzard had already framed 2026 as a reset year after dropping the sequel branding and relaunching its seasonal structure.
The new rewards do not remake the event from scratch, but they do answer the most immediate complaint: the celebration now gives regular players more loot boxes and a clearer Legendary skin payoff before it ends. It also makes the event easier to finish for anyone who was staring down the original match requirement.
This is the second Gamers Now story around the event, following Blizzard's earlier reveal of the Overwatch 10th Anniversary reward lineup. That earlier rollout focused on what was coming. The new update is about Blizzard responding once players actually saw the scale of the celebration.
Blizzard's official post still points to more reward plans beyond the anniversary window, including Junkrat's Loot Hunt from June 5 to June 8 and another Drive event from June 11 to June 15. Those are separate from the immediate anniversary fix, but they show the studio trying to keep Overwatch's reward calendar busy after the event closes.