October will be the end for Overwatch.
It is well known that Overwatch is about to shut down for good to their servers before the imminent arrival of its second installment, which will become free to play and will absorb the first game. In this way, it will end the title that managed to win the 2016 GOTY and one of the great strengths of Blizzard during these years, which has not stopped grow with new heroes, modes, events and other content.
In fact, talking about the new heroes, we have recently been able to meet Kiriko and her abilities, this being a character that has been giving a lot of clues throughout the summer. Be that as it may, focusing on the first Overwatch title, it should be noted that The date of the closure of its servers has already been announced.
The month of October will begin with the closure of the Overwatch servers
This information has been known through Eurogamer, since Jon Spector, head of Blizzard, has detailed everything related to this closure, noting that Overwatch will close its servers a day before the launch of the second installmentthat is, the cessation would be the October 3, 2022. It should be noted that this is an approximation, so it is not ruled out that can be closed some day before. However, this makes one thing clear, and that is that the October 2 will be the last day of Overwatch.
For all that has been said, Spector also points out that the objective of this cessation, which will take at least 27 hours, will lead to Overwatch 2 servers are fully functional. For all these reasons, we will have to see how the start of this second part is.
Otherwise, it only remains to point out that Overwatch 2 will be released on Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PC on October 4, being so, unlike the previous one, this second installment will arrive under the format of free to play, being that it will initially be launched as a beta.