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Blizzard’s Overwatch: Maybe free-to-play, maybe not; definitely no single-player

In conversation with Kotaku, Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan, Game Director of Overwatch, divulged new details on the very new IP.

“I don’t think we would ever do a single-player campaign, because the way these characters work, they’re cool when you combine them together. Some don’t play well alone, either. Unless we built a campaign around supporting somebody else, a support character like Mercy probably wouldn’t do well,” Kaplan stressed.

He also wouldn’t confirm if the game was free-to-play or not, but did say the game’s final model would be “a fair deal” without leaving gamers feeling “ripped off”.

Overwatch enters a beta in 2015.


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