is a big lie, the vast majority of games of this genre came out long before Overwatch was announced, only at that time this genre was known as Class-Based Shooter, the success of OW and the reason why people believe this lie, was thanks to its advertising campaign with which they called themselves a new genre, but in reality they only changed the name of a genre that already existed
just look at the dates, Overwatch (announcement: November 7, 2014. release: May 24, 2016 ) and compare them with just a few similar games that already existed before Overwatch like, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (announced: June 13, 2013. released: February 25, 2014), SMNC (released: April 17, 2012), Global Agenda (released: February 1, 2010), GIGANTIC (announced: July 15, 2014, released: July 20, 2017) this game was completely leaked in 2013 and had several playable betas before it was announced OW, Monday Night Combat (released: August 11, 2010), Battleborn (announced: July 8, 2014. released: May 3, 2016), Paladins (announced: October 9, 2012. released: May 1, 2018) the game was originally announced under the name Global Agenda 2 and hab several betas from early 2015 until its official release,
Here you can find 50 other similar games along with their announcement date and release date.
https://www.giantbomb.com/class-based-shooter/3015-305/games/
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