After announcing the release date for Overwatch 2: Invasion over the weekend, Blizzard has now confirmed you’ll have to pay for the new PvE content.
I really wish there was a decent competitor to Overwatch as I love the game itself, I just hate every development that’s happening around it.
Paladins often get offered as an alternative, but it really doesn’t feel the same. The gunplay lacks any sense of impact, and as bad as Overwatch’s matchmaking is Paladin’s is absolutely atrocious.
There’s also Apex Legends and Valorant. Both different enough from OW that they don’t feel like a bland clone.
Neither of those are even in the same genre.
Paladins is really the closest equivalent, and it suffers from being not nearly as fun and having a greedier business model. In fact, all of these alternatives have pretty much the same business model that OW2 has, so I’m not sure how switching to them gets anyone away from the big OW2 change that pissed everyone off.
