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Overwatch 2 director says making all heroes free is 'what's best for players' and the game

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Blizzard Entertainment is "confident" Overwatch 2 can be "successful" without having heroes in the battle pass.

In a recent roundtable interview (via GamesRadar+), game director Aaron Keller discussed the decision to make every hero free for all players, saying that the Overwatch team was aware putting gameplay features behind a paywall would give players a competitive advantage and says its attempts at balancing this issue were not as "effective as we wanted them to be".

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