OW2 came with some genuinely good gameplay changes (depending on who you ask. The topic of 5v5 is contentious at best.) that made the game feel legitimately fresh. Could it have been a “2.0” patch/expansion instead of being presented as a sequel? Probably. But skins are optional as always because the real meat of the game was the gameplay since the start.

The blog post doesn’t actually make it that clear if they’re charging to play the PvE (optimistic I know).

Permanent access to the Overwatch 2: Invasion Story Missions

But given it’s Overwatch, the bad press has already started and will no doubt spread like wildfire. They only have themselves to blame so w/e.

PvE wasn’t canceled, what was cancelled was unique talent trees for each hero and whatever “hero missions” was. What we’re getting is (what appears to be) episodic story content with scripted events and cinematics.

Definitely Outer Wilds as well.

Hell, looking into the soundtrack changed my daily playlist to something heavily Midwest Emo.