The sequel to Overwatch may not arrive even in 2022 -apkrig
Overwatch 2 was officially unveiled at BlizzCon 2019. The eight-minute video stirred up a wave of emotional emotions among fans, and it must be admitted that even after years, the film has not lost any of its grandeur and touch. The fact remains, however, that in a few months it will be three years since we officially learned about the game for the first time, and we have known since February that we will not see it this year. The Blizzard developers then postponed not only Overwatch 2 but also Diablo IV to 2022, which fans generally accepted and enjoyed the new information and details that the developers provided for both games. Now, however, there are reports that Overwatch 2 will not make it next year and its postponement hangs in the air. This is claimed by a renowned insider and leaker with the nickname Metro, who confirmed his credibility, for example, before the aforementioned BlizzCon 2019, when confirmedthat Overwatch 2 will be announced after the animated movie.
Less than three years later, however, he speaks differently and has pointed out several times that development is dragging on uncomfortably. After all, even before the official postponement, he indicated something like this with a link to information directly from the team working on the game. In January of this year, Insider did not hesitate to talk about the fact that it is still a game far away and nothing has changed in the past six months. The latest news sounds even more threatening, and given Metro’s history, we’re starting to get a little worried about Overwatch 2. “I’ve heard from a few people close to my original source on Overwatch 2 that development is taking longer than expected. From what I’ve found, the 2022 release no longer seems likely. I hope that is not true and it turns out that I am wrong, “Metro wrote on his Twitter. However, if his report were true, fans would say he was worried about Overwatch as such.
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I’ve heard from multiple people close to my original source with OW2 that the development is taking longer than expected. From what I can gather a release in 2022 does not seem likely anymore. I hope this is false and I’m proven wrong.
– Metro (@Metro_OW) August 7, 2021
Metro can’t imagine the first part survived next year without significant updates, which the game really doesn’t get lately. As fans describe, the new game mode hasn’t arrived for quite some time, interesting events are missing, but on the other hand Overwatch doesn’t suffer too much from being played by not enough players to talk about waiting too long for matches. In any case, the situation is unsatisfactory, given that the start of the second part was expected last year, the worst this year. Players also ask what is so complex to create such a game when its foundation exists and all developers have to do is innovate it in such a way as to preserve the original formula, but the community has felt a stream of interesting changes in the sides of modes and characters. In the end, the developers already have an idea of how the second part will differ from the first, and they have established it mainly in changing the number of heroes in one team. They want to move from six to five, which Blizzard explained at the end of May, referring to the guarantee of variety and higher dynamics of matches. In reality, however, the players did not accept the defense of one tank very well and began to eagerly discuss that for the offtank role – typically D.va – there will probably be no place in the matches if the goal is not adjusted according to the innovated abilities of individual heroes.
The postponement of the game until the calendar year 2022 can, of course, be due to the current case around Activision, to which Blizzard is significantly soaked. Many employees are facing a lawsuit for inappropriate workplace misconduct due to allegations of inappropriate behavior in the workplace, work on the development of other titles has slowed down, and the unveiling of Call of Duty has still not come. However, the combination of these factors can really lead to the players ceasing to be interested in Overwatch, and it can be all the more difficult for Blizzard to follow up on the second part.
