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OW2's PvE gameplay will now be delivered in seasonal offerings, like specific missions or storylines, released alongside PvP as the game continues down the path of a live service game. Related: Blizzard cancels original Overwatch 2 PvE campaign mode plans \u201cAs work slowly continued on\u00a0Overwatch 2, we began to pull more and more of our focus and energy away from the live game,\u201d game director Aaron Keller said, explaining the reasoning behind the switch. \u201cWe had a difficult choice to make. We could continue working on our original vision for\u00a0Overwatch 2\u00a0without a definitive end-date in sight, or change our strategy.\u201d With such a radical change of plans, there was bound to be outrage. But players are really not taking kindly to the news about PvE in OW2, especially considering that the original Overwatch game was taken down and replaced with OW2. \"Insane, considering they said that they HAD TO make OW2 with the updated engine so they could do all the PvE stuff which wasn't possible in OW1,\" said one Reddit commenter. \"Hilarious.\" OW2's PvE skill trees were a huge draw for the game when it was announced at BlizzCon in 2019. And now that they're gone and the PvE players will receive is much more scant than the original promise, players are wondering just what the game's sequel was made for. \"Wasn't this the entire point of making it 'Overwatch 2'?\" a Twitter user asked in reply to the news. \"I thought they were going to add permanent skill trees to PVP also and it would make it fun again, instead they go back to Overwatch 1

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