From what I understand, these watermarks generally show up in Alpha/Beta/Early Access games.
Generally, they all have a similar format, consisting of some sort of unique identifying number; often along with the game name, the beta version, and your username.
There can be multiple uses for this.
Bugs/Information - The watermark can provide build information, and perhaps other information about what program version is running. This can make troubleshooting a lot easier when provided with a screenshot of an issue.
NDA/Privacy - Some games initially release under non-disclosure agreements and have very strict rules about sharing game information outside of approved channels. By including watermarks; you can mitigate the ability for people to leak content that you don't want released. It becomes easier to track down who released it (they might have more subtle ways too, but this lets the user know they can find you).
Based on the fact that most full-release games I've seen opt to not include this, I would think these are the two primary reasons.
I considered it as advertising the game and watermarking screenshots to be a third reason; but anyone who wants to steal your content could easily cut that part of the image out. I think that's a fairly unlikely motivation.
Once season 3 ends and 4 starts, you can no longer make any tier progression for season 3 and would no longer be able to unlock the last skin through tier progression.
This is based off how previous seasons have worked.
Can now confirm with the start of season 4 you can no longer make tier progression for season 3
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Well, each of the gold versions of the skins unlock at specific levels the lowest being Midas's which is at level 100 and the highest being Agent Peele's which is at a whopping level 300. Once their req. level is reached you need to keep levelling up by playing with that specific character to make them fully gold. The transformation happens gradually.
The specifics (1st is the level mentioned you req. for the transformation to start):
Midas: 100 Levels (Full Gold: Level 140)
Brutus: 140 Levels (Full Gold: Level 180)
Meowscles: 180 Levels (Full Gold: Level 220)
TNTina: 220 Levels (Full Gold: Level 260)
Skye: 260 Levels (Full Gold: Level 300)
Agent Peely: 300 Levels (Full Gold: Level 340)
Hope this answered your question EagleGaming