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Overwatch 2 opens the door to a return for 6v6

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Soldier 76 and Reinhardt in Overwatch 1. | Image: Activision Blizzard

A couple of years into the Overwatch 2 experience, player angst has reached a point where the people making the game are considering bringing the old 12-person matches back. Today’s blog post from the developers at Blizzard says that, finally, “we’re exploring how we can test different forms of 6v6 in the game to gauge the results.”

Game director Aaron Keller also notes that issues like hero balancing, game performance, and what might happen to queue times if players have a choice between the two formats are questions the team needs to answer but is at least ready to start considering.

Other than making a full-priced game free to play and laying out promises about player-vs-environment content that weren’t exactly fulfilled, the shift…

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