All PvP, all the time.
Overwatch 2 is reportedly scrapping all PvE, or player versus enemy, modes, according to a new report.
Bloomberg reports that PvE content will be scrapped entirely, in favour of PvP, or player versus player, content. This move is partially due to most of Overwatch 2‘s PvE team having been let go as part of larger layoffs at Microsoft and Activision Blizzard.
Overwatch 2 cut a PvE Hero Mode back in May 2023, promising that more PvE content would follow. In July of that same year, players were told they shouldn’t expect any more story content for the duration of 2023.
The shift to full PvP is also allegedly in response to poor sales of that story-based PvE based content, though there’s a small sampling to choose from. The content also meant players had to pay for permanent access, which is okay considering Overwatch 2 is otherwise free-to-play… but poor when you consider Overwatch 2 replaced Overwatch itself, a title players paid full price to access.
That’s the main problem players are citing at present, as the shift to Overwatch 2 came with promises of PvE content. Now reportedly back as a full PvP affair, players are wondering why Overwatch 2 needed to exist in the first place.
“I was somewhat interested when they announced Overwatch 2 as also being a fully fledged PvE game but they never released that,” writes B_Kuro on Reddit. “I don’t care for a dumped down side project they grafted onto a game centered around PvP and I sure as hell won’t pay for it. There are other games out there that actually provide a full experience to spend money on.”
“[Three] years of zero updates to make content that was eventually scrapped,” added Pulsiix. “[T]hey killed the game to make something quite literally nobody asked for and were surprised when nobody gave a [f*ck] about it.”
Overwatch 2 is a free-to-play title available on Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, PS4, PS5, and Switch.
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