However, the current game will continue to expand.
At the last financial meeting of Blizzard, President J. Allen Brack spoke briefly about the present and future of Overwatch: “It is a remarkable franchise for Blizzard, and we will continue dedicating resources and attention to the community and the series to grow with time”. The work plan is not only about improving the video game we know so far.
Brack explains that the team will continue to add “new heroes, new maps and new experiences” during the new fiscal year: “they will work on the existing game […] and focus on the other work at hand “. This new project is particularly interesting for two reasons: one, which is used immediately after talking about the “existing game” so it does not seem to be a simple free add; and two, which does not illustrate if we talk about a sequel, spin-off, campaign mode, movie or anything else.
That said, a couple of days ago IGN published an interview with Michael Chu, chief scriptwriter and the central axis of the Overwatch narrative, where it was mentioned that the history of the game has a structure relatively similar to that of the Marvel cinematographic universe. The majority of events, comics and cinematics presented so far are focused on the past to illustrate the background of the characters and corporations that shape the universe, but all this forms a “first phase” that culminates in a cinematic first of the whole game. What happens next? It would not be strange to imagine that the new Overwatch project will return to that same point.
