Overwatch 2 Developers Are Scrapping Their Initial Hero Mode Plans

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Overwatch was a huge success. This hero-based competitive FPS had plenty of fans logging into the game regularly. So when a sequel was announced, fans were intrigued to see what the developers were planning to do with this franchise. One of the big elements that might have excited some fans was the inclusion of a PvE campaign storyline. This would add plenty of interesting lore and even further tweak the hero characters.

In particular, it seems that players could further buff characters a bit as they progressed through the game. So if you were interested in more storylines being featured and likely some more insight into the hero characters you played, Overwatch 2 might have been an instant purchase. However, now that the game has been out for a little while, the developers are revealing the game’s initial storyline campaign elements and tweaks you would have been able to make for your hero is no longer in the works. 

Thanks to a report from Gamespot, we’re finding that the development team opted to focus more on the live service aspect of the game. Aaron Keller, the game director for Overwatch 2, stated that this was a process to decide on killing off their initial plans. Keller noted that there was a large portion of their team working on the PvE side of things but felt that this made it hard to bring out content as developers were finding years to go by before a hero launched. 

….as we were running up to launching Overwatch 2, we realized that we could not build that other game. We couldn’t save up all of that content over the course of what was looking to be at least the next several years to finish it, and by doing that, pulling more and more resources away from the people that were all playing our game and all the