Overwatch 2 director welcomes competition from Marvel Rivals as the team have “never really” had “another game that’s so similar to the one that we’ve created”
Off the back of Marvel Rivals’ mammoth launch, Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller is welcoming the competition since the storied hero shooter has “never really” been confronted with “another game that’s so similar to the one that we’ve created” – meaning the Blizzard team is no longer “playing it safe.”
Overwatch 2 has been the genre lynch pin for well over a decade at this point, with competitors like Concord and Battleborn falling off a cliff, but that all changed when NetEase, err, borrowed some of Blizzard’s best ideas and licensed Marvel’s ever-popular superheroes. The Overwatch team have never really been on their back foot this whole time, so how are they feeling now?