It sounds like Blizzard Entertainment is shelving PvE for good for its hero shooter, Overwatch 2. This is after it shelved the much-anticipated Hero Mode and replaced it with paid rotational PvE missions, of which only three were released, with more stuck in the pipeline.
A Bloomberg report alleges that it will not release any more PvE content following staff layoffs, which hit that department particularly hard and that any in-progress content will be scrapped. This is a big hit to the group that still clung onto hope that it would turn itself around.
Blizzard’s hero shooter struggled since its debut to be more than just an update to its 2016 shooter, Overwatch, which shut down, leading its free-to-play sequel in its place. Unfortunately, a lot changed and not totally for the better, with a bigger emphasis on a Battle Pass system and tweaking characters to better fit a smaller PvP group.
Not to mention, it left a bad taste in the mouths very fast by promising the now-dead Hero Mode and other PvE modes, only to retract them and just act like Overwatch 2 is just the original.
