The Controversy Surrounding Overwatch 2's Canceled PvE Mode

Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller explained in a blog post that the decision to cancel hero missions, a central part of the game's player vs. environment (PvE) story mode, was due to the team's ambition for the feature devouring resources at the expense of the core gameplay. The hero missions were designed to provide a "deeply repayable" branch of the game based on RPG-like talent trees, but Blizzard ultimately found that they were pulling too many development resources away from the live game. The game's story missions are still set to arrive in season six, scheduled for mid-August.