

The roadmap also promises a cinematic reveal, a 5v5 mini comp season, the Creator Workshop mode, and the return of the On Fire mechanic that was present in Overwatch. This fifth season of the live-service shooter brings events and modes, including a new limited-time event called Questwatch, as well as the return of the Summer Games event. Season 5, which has the theme of "Mischief and Magic," is currently set to kick off on June 13. Now, we made the commitment to always prioritize the live game and all of the people playing it and to devote our development efforts there." No longer would we store content up for really big releases and leave the game sort of languishing on the side. But more than that, we shifted our values for how we want to develop the game. We chose the latter, and we released Overwatch 2 last October with new heroes, new maps, new modes, and regular seasonal updates.

So, we had a difficult choice to make: We could continue working on our original vision for Overwatch 2 without a definitive end date in sight or change our strategy and get something in front of players sooner. "We had people that were excited to be playing that game, and they just wanted more of it. "As work slowly continued on Overwatch 2, we began to pull more and more of our focus and energy away from the live game and all of the people that were playing it," Keller said on the stream.
