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Tomorrow is your last full day to play Overwatch 1Before the servers are switched off to prepare for its sequel
Before the servers are switched off to prepare for its sequel
Tomorrow, October 2nd, is the last full day during which theOverwatch1 severs will be online. Blizzard’s first-person shooter will switch off at 8am PT on the 3rd (4pm BST) ahead of the release of the free-to-playOverwatch 2on October 4th.
How do we feel about that?
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Blizzard’s team shooter launched in 2016, which means you’ve had six years to play with its maps, modes and hero characters. Many of those things will carry over to the sequel - perhaps too many, given Ed and Liamfound the followup too familiar during public beta. Nevertheless, everything has been tweaked and re-balanced and refreshed so it’s no longer the same game.
I feel like an old man crumbling to dust everytime I say this, but the switch-over means that Overwatch 1, a game that a lot of people paid for, will no longer be playable. Sure, as a live service game maybe it had already changed beyond recognition after six years anyway, but it’s still weird to me that no one seems to mind that it’s going away. (Or maybe they do mind but I haven’t seen it and we’re in for a decade of petitions requesting Overwatch Classic servers.)
Since the internet sometimes operates at higher registers, let’s be clear: I’m not outraged here. I am also willing to accept maybe you shouldn’t listen to me, a skeleton holding a USB stick containing installers for Counter-Strike betas 1, 2, 3, 5.2, 6 and 7, in case I ever want to revisit cs_tire for some reason. (Yes, I’ve also got installers for the patches to the CD version ofHalf-Life1 that each CS beta requires.)
