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 had been a part of a much bigger, now-nixed plan. The truth is, the PvE Hero Missions had been step two of a 3 step plan that will’ve led to a brand new MMO.

Again in 2013, a first-person shooter MMO known as Mission Titan was canceled at Blizzard Leisure (though it wasn’t introduced publicly till 2014). A number of members of that improvement group had been moved to a brand new group known as Crew 4, and had been set to work on Overwatch. Nevertheless, they nonetheless thought-about themselves to be an MMO group they usually got here up with a 3 step plan to get themselves again to creating MMOs.

Step one was to make use of Mission 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 mixture of Hero Missions and Story Missions in Overwatch 2. Ultimately, this may result in an MMO that will be “a real realization of the unique imaginative and prescient of Mission Titan.”

So — what went fallacious?

In accordance with Overwatch 2’s present sport director Aaron Keller, the group “[wasn’t] as centered as we should always have been on a sport that was a runaway hit” and centered 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 not within the type of a brand new model of Mission Titan.