Key Takeaways
- Overwatch: Classic makes the game play exactly as it did at launch in 2016, and fans are loving it.
- Many want Classic to be a permanent game mode, preferring it to how Overwatch 2 plays.
- Blizzard has indicated that it will consider bringing back 6v6, depending on how players respond.
Overwatch 2‘s Classic mode is a hit with fans, as new and old players alike are transported back in time to how the game played in 2016. While it’s absolutely broken and chaotic, with no hero balancing or limits on how many people can play a single character, players are still loving it, even preferring it to the main game.
Now, many of them are calling on Blizzard to make Overwatch: Classic a permanent fixture in Overwatch 2. This would let players ignore the current build of Overwatch, with its various character reworks, new heroes, and 5v5 gameplay, in favour of the shooter we got at launch.
Overwatch Players Want Classic Mode To Stick Around
“I can’t remember the last time I actually had this much fun playing Overwatch,” says Reddit user KvonKay. “I knew I missed OW1, but DAMN did the classic mode make me realize how much I do not enjoy OW2.”
MaybeImYami agrees: “I literally have not had a single game where I didn’t have fun. And I had a couple of games where my team has just been absolutely stomped with no progress towards winning at all, but it’s still fun.
Right now, Overwatch: Classic is set to come to an end on December 6, so it will run for three weeks. However, Blizzard has previously said that it will be keeping an eye on how the playerbase reacts to the event when considering bringing 6v6 back in the future.
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“In the world where a surge of players join this mode and continuously play it, then we have the signal we need to do more with it,” said Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller, speaking in a blog post last month. “I think what that ‘more’ is depends on the level of excitement.
“If you had asked me a few months ago, I would have said no. As we’ve discussed Overwatch 2’s future in light of making the game that our players want to play, we know our players can want more than one experience, and it would be something we’d need to consider moving forward.
Overwatch: Classic is available to all players right now.
The sequel to Blizzard’s popular team-based hero shooter, Overwatch 2 features a roster of over 35 fighters and over 20 maps. It features team sizes reduced to five, aiming to create faster and more action-oriented matches, while PvE elements add to the options available.