Canceled Overwatch 2 PvE Mode Was Meant to Result in MMO

Earlier this week, Blizzard Leisure canceled the Overwatch 2 PvE mode Hero Missions. Because it seems, these missions have been a part of an even bigger, now-nixed plan. In actual fact, the PvE Hero Missions have been step two of a 3 step plan that may’ve led to a brand new MMO.

Again in 2013, a first-person shooter MMO referred to as Challenge Titan was canceled at Blizzard Leisure (though it wasn’t introduced publicly till 2014). A number of members of that growth workforce have been moved to a brand new workforce referred to as Staff 4, and have been set to work on Overwatch. Nonetheless, they nonetheless thought-about themselves to be an MMO workforce and so they got here up with a 3 step plan to get themselves again to growing MMOs.

Step one was to make use of Challenge Titan belongings to create Overwatch, which turned out to be “a runaway hit.” The second step of the plan was a devoted model of PvE, which was meant to be a mix of Hero Missions and Story Missions in Overwatch 2. Ultimately, this could result in an MMO that may be “a real realization of the unique imaginative and prescient of Challenge Titan.”

So — what went flawed?

In keeping with Overwatch 2’s present sport director Aaron Keller, the workforce “[wasn’t] as targeted as we must always have been on a sport that was a runaway hit” and targeted an excessive amount of on a plan that they couldn’t get to work anymore. The result’s a brand new roadmap for Overwatch 2, which nonetheless consists of the Story Missions alongside co-op content material.

Overwatch nonetheless has a future, however it’s now not within the type of a brand new model of Challenge Titan.