Overwatch 2 Is Indeed Facing Pressure From Marvel Rivals but Director Claims “a lot of it is internal” Too

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Overwatch 2 Is Indeed Facing Pressure From Marvel Rivals but Director Claims “a lot of it is internal” Too

Overwatch 2 is a first-person hero shooter game that was released back in August of 2023. Although the game’s predecessor was a huge success when it was released and was among the top FPS games in the industry, Overwatch 2 failed to garner a reception similar to it.

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Overwatch 2 is losing players significantly after the release of Marvel Rivals | Image Credits: Blizzard Entertainment

It has been facing some issues for some time now and after the release of its competition, Marvel Rivals, Overwatch 2 has been losing a significant number of players every day. Although the game had over 35 million players during its initial release, the current daily average of Overwatch 2 is not more than 25,000 players.

In a recent livestream, the director of Overwatch 2, Aaron Keller revealed a lot of changes and improvements that they are bringing into their game in the new season. Why was Overwatch 2 pressurized into bringing these? Let’s delve deeper.

Blizzard was pressured into revamping Overwatch 2

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Marvel Rivals took the world by storm when it was released | Image Credits: NetEase Games

Fans of Overwatch 2 have been frustrated with the game ever since its launch, mainly because Blizzard Entertainment failed to deliver on their promises of new modes and features to the game. The company announced plans to add a PvE mode but that was scrapped the same year of its release, so the developers could focus more on the PvP. Despite significant backlash from players, Blizzard took minimal steps to redeem itself to their players.

In December of 2024, NetEase Games launched their game Marvel Rivals on all major gaming platforms and it became an instant hit in the gaming industry. The game became so popular that more than 100,000 players are playing the game right now.

NetEase Games delivered on its promises and made Marvel Rivals their best work yet. After the release of Marvel Rivals, many Overwatch players shifted to the new hero shooter, which caused Blizzard to lose its player base rapidly.

This success of Marvel Rivals, sort of coerced Blizzard to bring out new modes and features in the game to keep the game relevant. In a recent interview with

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, Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller was asked if their team was feeling pressured by the success of Marvel Rivals. He admitted that they were indeed feeling the pressure but not only from the competition but also from internal expectations.

There is pressure on the Overwatch team, and a lot of it is internal. It’s [asking] how do we make the best possible game that we can? And we’ve been feeling it for a while.

In the same interview, he also mentioned that the upcoming changes in seasons 15 and 16 were in the works for some time now, suggesting that the team was actively working on enhancing the game even before Marvel Rivals was launched.

The game faces backlash from the players, amid competition

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Players are unbothered by Blizzard on reviving the game | Image Credits: Blizzard Entertainment

The new features from Blizzard will be released on February 18 and it includes the addition of a perk system and the return of lootboxes. While these new updates are exciting, most fans of the game are unbothered by it and are calling it a desperate move to bring Overwatch 2 back to relevancy.

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In recent months, Blizzard has been quite generous to their player base, showering them with better skins in the game’s battle pass and also reintroducing the highly requested 6v6 which was removed. These steps were taken as a reaction to the increasing popularity of Marvel Rivals and fans of Overwatch 2 are frustrated, believing that Blizzard only started listening to the community after noticing a decline in their player base.

Whether the inclusion of the new features will be enough to regain the interest of lost players is yet to be seen, but one thing is certain Blizzard is under pressure from its external competition as well as from internal pressure. As the next seasons roll out, Overwatch 2‘s future will depend on how well Blizzard addresses player feedback and adjusts according to its community.

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