Goodbye, Overwatch. Players say goodbye to Blizzard’s hit

See you on the other side. Goodbye. Rest in peace. I have been honored. I’m glad I discovered you. Here are some of the words you can find on social media and discussion forums this afternoon. They are associated with at the end of the game Overwatchwhich came out over six years ago and has become one of the most popular multiplayer events.

A year after its release, Overwatch had over 30 million players. However, the light of this shooter gradually faded, Blizzard abandoned the game, did not release any new content from May 2020 to May 2021, and began to focus on the successor.

Today at 18:00 our time Blizzard shut down Overwatch game serversto launch them again tomorrow from 21:00, but from Overwatch 2. The sequel to the heroic shooter is coming to Early Access as a free-to-play game on PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch. In less than three weeks, version 1.0 will arrive.

But players are wary, rightly worried that the title will be riddled with microtransactions, and nervous about the departure of key developers. Among other things, head of development Jeff Kaplan said goodbye to Blizzard.