Pharah, Widowmaker, Tracer, and Reaper were the first heroes play-tested.

It was released on May 24, 2016, for Windows, Xbox One, and Playstation 4, 2 and on October 15, 2019 for the Nintendo Switch.

There are two special editions, Origins Edition and Collectors Edition.

This eventually led to the formation of an elite strike team, who finally brought an end to the war.

This team was the beginning of Overwatch, an international task force which tried to maintain global stability for two decades, until corruption tore it apart.

Though Overwatch was disbanded, new crises are looming, and the world still needs heroes.

Interactions between characters and certain details on maps also help flesh out the setting and its inhabitants.

Eventually, Overwatchs lore is planned to be on par with Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft.

There is a leveling system which gives user portraits and loot boxes.

Some of the most amazing developers that Ive ever seen.from all over the world.

It was the first time Blizzard pulled a lot of external talent in.

Many of these classes went on to form the basis for Overwatch heroes.

Titan differed from past Blizzard projects in that a lot of external talent was recruited for its development, whereas previous projects had used pre-existing staff.

NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) are in place (as of 2018) that prevent many (former) developers from speaking widely on the game.

Reasons cited behind the cancellation include a lack of passion for the project and the trending success of their smaller-scale titles.

After it was shut down, 80 were permanantly assigned to other projects at Blizzard, and 20 more were temporarily relocated to other teams for anywhere from six months to two years.

The remaining staff were given six weeks to come up with a new direction for the project.

The developers came up with three separate game ideas, with the idea being that each idea would have two weeks in discussion.

The six weeks ended up being divided into one block of four weeks, the other a block of two weeks.

The first four weeks were pitching ideas for an MMO in one of the pre-existing Blizzard universes 21 (it has been indicated that StarCraft was the setting chosen; concept art for the project was taken from Chris Metzen s early work on StarCraft, and Team 4 found the StarCraft setting compelling enough to do something similar as World of Warcraft ), 16 the next two were on developing a new IP MMO.

The new IP would be named Crossworlds, set on a remote planet with numerous alien species that acted as the crossroads of the universe.

Like World of Warcraft, Crossworlds would be a class-based MMO.

Geoff Goodman pitched the idea of doing 50 classes (as opposed to the original 69 idea), the difference being that each class would be hyper-specialized.

The idea was deemed unfeasible, though the concept stuck with Jeff Kaplan, who began developing his own pitch.

When the idea was brought to Chris Metzen, he and everyone else agreed that they should focus on this idea.

Morhaime has described the pitch as an evolution of a sort of Team Fortress -style game in a superhero universe.

There was some reluctance from the executives, given that no-one had asked for or expected Blizzard to make an FPS, and Activision already had Call of Duty as a successful FPS franchise.

However, in the presentation pitch, Bobby Kotick (CEO of Activision-Blizzard) was impressed by the varied character roster.

Activision ended up giving Blizzard the go-ahead to make the game.

The initial goal was to have one complete map, complete with level design and environmental art.

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