What was happening inside Blizzard when Marvel Rivals rolled up and snatched away a chunk of the Overwatch audience? Game director Aaron Keller fielded the question at a GDC panel attended by GamesRadar+, acknowledging that Marvel Rivals "definitely had an impact on us in a lot of different ways" and pondering how the player response could inform decisions on Overwatch.
"One of the biggest ones was seeing the amount of excitement that new players to Rivals had for this big drop of heroes," Keller says. "It got us talking. Hey, what if we could just drop 30 new heroes into Overwatch? What would player reaction to that be? Because it almost felt like the release of that game was something like that. So it actually kind of helped us clarify a bit the types of releases we wanted to make going forward.
