{"id":32823,"date":"2023-08-10T19:27:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T18:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/overwatch-2-dev-team-calm-on-declining-player-engagement\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T19:27:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T18:27:34","slug":"overwatch-2-dev-team-calm-on-declining-player-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/overwatch-2-dev-team-calm-on-declining-player-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch 2 Dev Team Calm on Declining Player Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<section class=\"article-page\">\n<p>The Overwatch 2 development team says it\u2019s unconcerned by declining player engagement, insisting it\u2019s seeing the \u201cnormal ebb and flow\u201d associated with free-to-play games.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\"><\/section>\n<p>Blizzard launches <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/overwatch-2-invasion-story-missions-new-support-hero-illari-and-all-season-updates-explained\">Invasion<\/a>, the hero shooter\u2019s sixth season, hot on the heels of stark comments from Activision Blizzard, which confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/overwatch-2-engagement-and-player-investment-is-declining-activision-blizzard-admits\">Overwatch 2 engagement and player investment had declined<\/a> during the three months to June 30.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Activision Blizzard pointed to today\u2019s release of Invasion, which adds a new hero, new story missions, and new maps, as a potential flashpoint of much-needed interest. But in an interview with reporters ahead of launch, Blizzard played down the importance of Invasion as a &#8216;make or break&#8217; moment for Overwatch 2.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"overwatch-2-invasion-pve-and-new-hero-illari-abilities-explained\" data-loop=\"\"><\/section>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s this interesting thing about how we stacked a bunch of content on Overwatch 2 Invasion,\u201d executive producer Jared Neuss said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did that because we were experimenting with different seasonal structures, and one of the things we really wanted to try was, what if we just put all this big stuff, these awesome additions, and different expressions of the game together?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat really isn\u2019t like a, \u2018oh there\u2019s so much riding on this\u2019 kind of a thing for us. For us it\u2019s really about, what does a good season look like? We\u2019ve tried a bunch of stuff, right? We tried a very thematic approach with Season 5. We\u2019ve tried different things in Season 2 and 3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s less about, \u2018is there all this stuff riding on Overwatch 2: Invasion?\u2019 and more about, \u2018what do we think is the right rhythm and cadence, and how do we create these big moments for players?\u2019 &#8220;<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"quoteBox\">&#8220;We see a normal ebb and flow of players.<\/section>\n<p>Addressing the declining player engagement, Neuss put it down to Overwatch 2\u2019s free-to-play status, which encourages players to dip in and out as they see fit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe declining stuff is basically, we are a free-to-play game and it is very easy to both come to the game and check it out, and to leave to check out other stuff,\u201d Neuss said. \u201cWe see a normal ebb and flow of players. There\u2019s nothing concerning to me or the team about any of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Overwatch 2 Invasion introduces the game\u2019s next batch of story missions, which are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/overwatch-2-charging-15-for-access-to-upcoming-story-missions\"><u>locked behind a $15 paywall<\/u><\/a>. Blizzard has said it is likely Overwatch 2 will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/overwatch-2-players-should-expect-a-multi-season-gap-between-story-missions-blizzard-says\"><u>not get new story missions for at least the next two seasons<\/u><\/a> after the release of Invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Overwatch 2 launched October 2022 as a free download and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/overwatch-2-has-reached-over-25-million-players-in-its-first-10-days-35-million-in-its-first-month\"><u>got off to a strong start<\/u><\/a>, with over 35 million people playing in the first month. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/overwatch-2-review\">IGN\u2019s Overwatch 2 review<\/a> returned an 8\/10: &#8220;Overwatch 2 breathes new life into what was once the sharpest multiplayer shooter around, before it had its edges severely dulled by Blizzard&#8217;s attention shifting away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Overwatch 2 has endured a number of controversies since, none more potent than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/overwatch-2-pve-hero-mode-canceled-a-difficult-choice\"><u>the cancellation of its long-awaited PvE Hero mode<\/u><\/a> &#8211; the one feature, players said, that justified the sequel&#8217;s existence. Overwatch 2 launches on Steam today in a move that will no doubt boost player numbers further.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"divider\"><\/section>\n<p><em>Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/overwatch-2-dev-team-calm-on-declining-player-engagement\">Go to Source (IGN.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Overwatch 2 development team says it\u2019s unconcerned by declining player engagement, insisting it\u2019s seeing the \u201cnormal ebb and flow\u201d associated with free-to-play games. Blizzard launches Invasion, the hero shooter\u2019s sixth season, hot on the heels of stark comments from Activision Blizzard, which confirmed Overwatch 2 engagement and player investment had declined during the three<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32824,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,6,9],"tags":[8754,917,8755,8756,315,737,2528,854,48,8753],"class_list":["post-32823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","category-new-releases","category-pc","category-reviews","tag-declining","tag-development","tag-engagement","tag-insisting","tag-its","tag-overwatch","tag-player","tag-says","tag-team","tag-unconcerned"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Overwatch 2 Dev Team Calm on Declining Player Engagement | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View Overwatch 2 Dev Team Calm on Declining Player Engagement for free, here on XtremeServers. 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