In another twist to the ongoing Overwatch 2 metanarrative, Blizzard has announced that the hero shooter’s much-anticipated cooperative PvE mode has been scrapped. That’s despite promising for years that it would be included, with skill trees and perks, to boot.
Executive producer Jared Neuss delivered the news in a recent stream (thanks, Eurogamer), admitting that “the development in the PvE experience really hasn’t made the progress we were hoping for”. While the team has developed “a bunch of amazing content”, Nuess explained that “the effort it takes to pull that all together into a Blizzard-quality experience that we can send you is immense, and indeed endless. . . ”
Neuss explained, noting that: “We’re left with another tough choice: do we keep pouring all that effort into PvE hoping we’ll get it at some point in the future, or do we stay in the range of these values. are aligned and focus on the live game and focus on serving all of you?”
The community, predictably, is having none of this. Non-speaking members expressed different versions of the same sentiment: Blizzard has over-promised and under-delivered, and it looks like what PVE content has been generated will likely be cannibalised and given away from time to time. Streamers KarQ Twitter state of affairs summary:
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