I completed Overwatch 2‘s season 12 fight pass last night. There are just 11 days left in this season and it’s quickly the longest it’s taken me to work my method through the hero shooter’s everyday difficulties to open all the skins, emotes, and voice lines Blizzard provided in these previous 9 weeks. As I ended up the fight pass, I recognized that today, October 4, is the two-year anniversary of when Blizzard closed down the initial Overwatch to change it with the follow up.
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In 2022, whatever altered for Overwatch… well, type of. It was expected to, a minimum of. Now, 2 years later on, it’s clear that my faith in Blizzard’s initial vision for the follow up hasn’t been rewarded– which’s mainly due to the fact that we didn’t get the majority of what was guaranteed: a story-driven follow up that would likewise support a growing competitive suite.
Now, let’s analyze what we in fact got:
- A free-to-play video game
- A fight pass system to unlock cosmetics
- An extremely costly store that keeps discovering brand-new methods to generate income from the cosmetics you open as seasons pass
- A 5v5 competitive format that nobody in the neighborhood can settle on, even as Blizzard attempts to calm everybody
- PvE modes were slowly hacked off the video game, consisting of a story mode that got 3 objectives, followed by radio silence from Blizzard
- Reports from us and Bloomberg that the narrative objectives were canceled without a main statement or option to move the story forward
- The deserting of the Pixar-style animated shorts that seemed like an occasion (though they still put out some that were less interesting)
- A growing dependence on crossover occasions that have some fantastic skins however are beginning to seem like the only relevant thing that occurs in the video game
- Some cool occasions like the Mirrorwatch remix from previously this year, however primarily drawing on old shit like Summer Games and Winter Wonderland
- A couple of brand-new, terrific heroes who build on the world, include brand-new characteristics and synergies to the teamplay, and are generally a great deal of enjoyable to play
- A beautiful cool Pride occasion
All of this ought to read with the context of the comprehensive layoffs at Blizzard, turnover due to the business’s reported work culture, and substantial management modifications throughout the years.
I still have a great deal of love for the Overwatch universe. After playing over 1000 hours throughout both the initial and the follow up, characters like Soldier: 76, Sombra, and Lifeweaver have actually embedded are a few of my preferred computer game characters of perpetuity. I like playing as them, however that isn’t sufficient any longer– I’m on auto-pilot, opening cosmetics for them I will not utilize and feeding a device that isn’t providing me what I desire or was guaranteed.