All this time later, it has nothing to show for it except a languishing game that will likely never be 'complete' in the eyes of its players, and a development team stripped of one of its greatest ambassadors. Over four years, Blizzard ground an entire IP to a standstill to accommodate this idea. The community's response is one of almost abject dismay. Story missions intended to kick off a new narrative arc are still on the way, but much of what an entire community has spent more than three years waiting to see will never make its way to the game. All of the skills and progression systems that would have gone along with it are dead. The 'Hero Mode' that was intended as the crux of PvE has been canceled. By service game standards, Overwatch was still pretty young, not some creaky game barely being held together, so a need for a new game on that basis didn't make sense to me.Īnd now the same PvE content around which Overwatch 2 was supposed to have been built has been gutted. Overwatch was only six years old when it was shut down in favor of its replacement compare that to games like World of Warcraft or League of Legends, still yet to see a sequel despite their much older development frameworks. There were only three years between the full release of the first game and the announcement of the second. The cavalry's.goneįrom my perspective, Overwatch 2 was always a strange proposal. An FPS juggernaut gradually faded into increasing obscurity thanks to the promise of Overwatch 2. The Overwatch League stalled, and new content became almost non-existent. But then it slammed on the brakes, and all the momentum that Overwatch had was lost. As would-be competitors fell away, Overwatch was the hero-shooter, almost an entire genre in its own right.īlizzard very nearly had a runaway train of a new franchise. An obsession with character and world-building was championed by industry-leading cinematics and storytelling.
A thriving community was helmed by an esports scene that Blizzard had managed to grow from scratch into one of the biggest in the world. There was a time not that long ago when Overwatch felt like the biggest game on the planet.
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