Nothing but skins this event?

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Maintenance mode.
Don’t expect any new content apart from archives (and hero releases)

Skins are not content.

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It’s kind of surprising they put two years of work into it as it was. Games don’t really last that long in terms of popularity and growth these days.

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What do you mean ‘maintence mode’?

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As in keeping servers running.
Recycling events.
Little to no lore updates.
Hero releases on a schedule.
Doing the minimum possible basically.
They don’t care about the game anymore, they care about $$$ and OWL.

Izzy put it better :stuck_out_tongue:

Its what games go into after development has stopped (to focus on other areas)

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In software development world once new software goes from its inception to stable release and there is no longer new features on the table to be made for whatever reason they allocate minimum resources to keeping it running without going offline.

Overwatch doesn’t seem to be getting resources from management to dedicated to new features. They put only the minimum amount of people on the task to keep it online and some artists to keep the revenue coming. You do this until it dies off completely for maximum profit.

They must not see new Overwatch development as a good future investment.

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So overwatch is basically done for?

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That depends on what you expect to get out of it. The game still exists as it did yesterday. If that is fun for you then go for it.

Games from 30 years ago also exist and you can still play them.

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Phone game incoming. You know it is, they said they have Phone games in the works for all of their IP’s.

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That or more OWL features.

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If mobile game comes, I quess it´s a card game

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If a mobile game comes, I’ll cry.

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Overwatch Gacha game (don’t YOU PEOPLE have phones?!)
“Free to Play”
common gacha characters - torb, lucio, reaper, hanzo, McCree, bastion
Rare - Soldier, Junk, Orisa, Junkrat, Sombra
Epic - Mercy, Zarya, Reinhardt
Legendary - Tracer, Reinhardt, “Super Sexy” Mercy
Rest of the characters are part of next year’s content
You get one gacha pull every 48 hours, or buy 3 more for $4.99!
Missions cost 50 fuel per character. You earn 10 fuel per hour, or you can buy 500 fuel for only $9.99!

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people do realize events havent EVER gotten much new after year 1 right? everyone makes it seem like theyre putting in less effort NOW…when its always been this way…

aside from archives, events are not SPECIAL…we’re the ones that keep pretending like they are…and thusly ALWAYS disappointed

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Idk if there will be anything new but I’m keeping my expectations in the root cellar. Best thing they could say is year-round ctf competitive and a new event only gamemode.

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But… They’re literally always doing that and have been doing that since the start of the game. I swear I remember a stream a year ago saying that they always have 5-6 heroes in development at any given time

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It’ll be a 2d side scrolling shooter.

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Blizzard doesn’t care, they for some reason refuse to give up on making an esport out of anything. All they need is one to succeed and it will be worth nearly killing their entire company’s worth of IPs/games as far as they care.

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What I expect is when the roster gets too large they’ll simply restrict playable characters in comp in waves.

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They are fixated on it as companies were the Internet Boom in the late 90s. Esports are due for the bubble to burst sometime soon.