Overwatch Competitive Play Arrives On PC! Delayed For Consoles!
The PC version of Overwatch got Competitive Play today, which is the titles ranked competitive mode. However, in a blog post on Battle.Net, developer Blizzard gave more insight into what people can expect. For example, though it has released on PC, consoles won’t get Competitive Play for a little while longer:
“We wanted to be upfront and let players know that we won’t be able to release our Competitive Play patch on all platforms at the same time. The patch will be going live on PC today, while PlayStation 4 and Xbox One players can expect it sometime next week. We don’t have an exact date to share, but we can confirm that the patch is going through approvals right now on both platforms.
We know this isn’t an ideal way to deliver new content, so we’re going to continue to refine our patching processes over the next few months in an effort to sync up our release dates across platforms as closely possible. Although our Battle.net client will always allow us to be more agile on PC, we hope to reach a point where we can release major updates on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 simultaneously.”
Also though, the Competitive Play mode will be sectioned out into “seasons” with the first one only lasting a few months:
“We also wanted to let players know that the first season of Competitive Play will be an abbreviated one, lasting only two months instead of the normal three. This is because our Competitive Play patch is launching in the middle of the Summer 2016 season, which technically began on June 1 (a minor side-effect of our real-world season system). As a result, our inaugural season will include approximately 1.5 months of play rather than the full 2.5 months, ending on August 18 across all platforms. The Fall 2016 season will then begin as scheduled following our standard two-week off-season break.”
Once the Competitive Play Mode arrives on consoles, or is at least dated for it, we will report it.
I'm wondering if Overwatch will be as big in the e-sports scene as League of Legends. It seems like a pretty competitive game and I'm sure in a couple of years most of the issues will be fleshed out.
The delay isn't that long so I'm sure console players won't mind that much. Modes like this you can't really rush that much I think since once it's out there it's very difficult to tweak and even worse take back and I'm sure there know what they are doing since they already have so much experience with many other previous games under their belt.