Overwatch 2 Development team revealed some fresh information

Members of the Overwatch 2 development team revealed some fresh information and provided additional (there were a lot of art and UI)

context for the upcoming game on June 22 in a Reddit AMA(opens in new tab), including a confirmation that the

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original Overwatch will be completely replaced by Overwatch 2 when it launches on October 4. Director Aaron

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Keller said in answer to a query on the game's "Early Access" status, "When OW2 opens on October 4th it will be

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a replacement for the present live service. This action does little to quell criticism that Overwatch 2 is more of

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a glorified update than a wholly original sequel. It was previously difficult to parse what the final form of this

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not quite sequel will look like. Following the release of OW2, the official Overwatch account tweeted that "Overwatch 1

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players and Overwatch 2 players will play alongside on the same maps. This framing gave the impression that not

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only would Overwatch 2 interact with the first game in some way, but both would continue to exist. The game

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being brought back to an earlier state in a "Overwatch Classic" (think World of Warcraft Classic) would be "very costly

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