Why Blizzard Stopped Protecting The Overwatch Formula To Save The Game

The useful part

After a successful rebrand earlier this year, the mood around Overwatch has been far more positive recently. "Being able to continue to surprise people is really important," Dawson said. At the same time, we're going full-force to those things, but we also want to continue to say, 'Okay, where else can we push?

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• We have this sense of, 'Okay, we're going to come in and actually expand what your idea of what Overwatch is.' I think that actually, some of the things we've done in the past two years have been at the...
• The Perk system, in particular, is a brand-new gameplay system for Overwatch, and it changed a lot about what heroes were capable of.
• We want to continue to push in those things, and look at Overwatch and say, 'Hey, we're going to continue to make the...
• Speaking to GameSpot at BlizzCon, associate game director Alec Dawson attributed the recent success to ditching the fear of changing core systems--such as the introduction of a Perk system that...
• Where else can we actually innovate?' We're just excited to continue to surprise people, and the community's been really receptive to everything we've been doing this year." "It's really about not being...