- The game is getting better
OW2’s content has consistently gotten better each year. Venture, Juno, Hazard was a much better batch than Mauga, Illari, Weaver and way better than the 3 the game launched with in their initial state. Even balance, though very wish washy lately, is way more tolerable than infinite immortality spam from a year ago. So I’m looking forward to see what we have next year
- They’re hyping it up
They really haven’t hyped up anything like this in a while. Like the fairly game shaking S9 changes they just mentioned offhand a big patch was coming and then put a few paragraphs at the end of a blogpost.
- Blizzcon 2023
It was a very exciting presentation, and this seems to be the equivalent after missing blizzcon 2024
- They’re already giving hints
They just today mentioned comp 6v6, clash retirement from comp, and likely teased space weapons. They wouldn’t tease this much if they had nothing to show
- They’ve had time
They’ve had a year now where PvP was the only priority, so they’ve had real time to possibly do something big
So yeah, I’m not going to have any specific expectations, but I am optimistic