Overwatch 2 Success How Blizzard Strengthens the Game’s Core

Overwatch 2 Stadium is still very popular. The game's associate director from Blizzard talks about how they are taking care of Overwatch 2's community and game world.

Blizzard has been making Overwatch 2 much better in 2025. They added many new features and game modes that make the game feel fresh and fun again. With new perks, hero bans and the Stadium mode, Overwatch 2 feels almost like a new game. This is great but some people worry these changes might take attention away from the main game. Blizzard the team behind Diablo and World of Warcraft Says there’s no need to worry.

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In the latest blog Overwatch 2’s associate game director Alec Dawson talks about the game’s future. He says that while new gameplay is exciting it’s also important to focus on the basics. Some players are worried that adding a lot of new content might make the team pay less attention to the main game modes current heroes or parts of the game that need fixing.

Dawson says The new content is great but it’s very important to make sure the game’s environment is healthy for the content to succeed. Just like gardens need care to grow well we need to take care of every part of the game.

Dawson says that with each season Blizzard wants to give players good reasons to come back and keep playing. Each season should have something exciting like a new hero, game mode or feature. It should also make the game better in some way. Depending on what’s new Blizzard focuses more on either giving reasons to return or reasons to keep playing.

The beginning of the year like in Season 9 and Season 15 should feel very big and exciting. The way you play the game will change a lot. We are planning what this will look like next year and it will bring something great Dawson says.

In the next seasons of Overwatch 2 there are some exciting changes. Season 17 will bring a new map called Flashpoint and Aatlis plus a map voting feature. There will also be updates to the maps Suravasa and New Junk City later in Season 17 which helped shape Aatlis. In Season 18 there will be a big update to Perks. Every hero will get something new to try and the major perks will be improved to feel more powerful and special.

Dawson says that hero bans and map voting help Blizzard quickly find big problems in the game and fix them. For example Sombra is being banned a lot showing the team they need to change her soon. Also Freja’s ban rate went up after she got stronger So the team made quick changes to her.

We know we’re adding many new things to the game quickly. But we promise to take care of Overwatch’s world like a garden keeping it healthy and growing Dawson says.