GameSpot: The big talking point is the direction that you're now taking with the PvE; that you basically aren't doing it. Is that the correct way to characterize it? It's not happening anymore and you've pivoted away from it?

GameSpot: PvE가 완전히 폐지 되는건가요? 아니면 더 이상 오버워치 2의 메인컨텐츠가 아니라는건가요?



Aaron Keller: I think I would characterize it slightly differently, which is we are doing part of what the team had set out to do, but not the entirety of what was discussed back at BlizzCon 2019. So the real focus is on the story missions and that experience as opposed to the more open-ended hero mode and that stuff.

Aaron Keller: 그렇게 표현하는건 좀 어렵고, 원래 개발진이 진행하던 것의 부분적 진행이라고 표현 하고 싶습니다.  2019 블리즈컨에서 선보인 레벨업, 스킬, 영웅 모드 등은 없다고 보는게 맞고, 스토리 중점으로 출시할것.



GameSpot: Right. So it's fair to say that the experience that you showed during that first Overwatch 2 reveal is not going to be the one that will be released at any point?

GameSpot: 그러니깐 2019년에 보여준 오버워치 2 영상에서 사실인 부분은 협동전인 것 밖에 없다는거죠?



Aaron Keller: Yeah, exactly. So we are definitely not doing the Hero Mode and the talents and that power progression system.

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GameSpot: When did you realize that you weren't going to be able to execute in this way and what was it that led to that realization?

GameSpot: 그러면 오버워치2 를 이런식으로 운영할거라는건 언제부터 계획되고 알고 있었죠?



Aaron Keller: Yeah, this was a process. The development of any game is a process. In the years following our announcement at BlizzCon 2019, we had a really large portion of our team working on the PvE side of that game, and I think players of our live running game could feel that because we eventually stopped making content for it. It's been maybe two and a half years since the last hero that we launched, and we don't want to be back at the point where it's another three and a half years since launching a PvP map. So we really looked hard at what we were doing with the live game in service of this much bigger thing that we were working on and hoping to release later. The interesting thing about it is, it's such a difference releasing content for players that are playing your game instead of saving up all of that content for one big release that you're going to do later. So we came to the realization that this wasn't the right way to be developing for all of Overwatch. It was about a year and a half ago that we made the decision to really shift strategy. That's when we rapidly shifted the resources on our team to work on launching Overwatch 2, and that's what came out last October.

Aaron Keller: 2019년 블리즈콘때는 PvE 위주로 게임 개발이 진행되고 있었습니다. 그 과정에서 오버워치1의 PvP 모드가 유기되는 현상이 발생하여, 팀내에서 고찰결과 한번에 모든 컨텐츠를 쏟아내는 것 보다 PvP또한 관심이 필요하다 생각하여 개발진의 초점을 PvE 에서 PvP로 바꿔 오버워치2를 출시했습니다.



GameSpot: I think there's going to be a lot of frustration around how we got here because Overwatch has always been a live game. So, people are going to think, "Well, you knew this was a live game, yet you pitched this other Overwatch game, and then also you justified the 2 on the Overwatch title with that." So, we're in a situation now where the game is what it always has been--it's evolved in some ways--but a sequel was released and that sequel's justification hinged on the PvE. Why did that happen?

GameSpot: 그러면 오버워치1를 죽이고 오버워치2로 출시한 이유는 도대체 뭔가요?  오버워치1 과 2의 차이점은 PvE라고 직접 개발자들이 말하지 않았나요? 왜 이런일이 일어난거죠?



Keller: That's a great question. We've talked a lot in the past about Overwatch 2 and how different it is from the original game, even just being free-to-play and swapping to a 5v5 team format and all the new content that we've developed for it. To me that's the biggest change that we're looking at here; it's not just that we have some of the same Heroes in the game. It's the way that we're writing the game and how we're looking at the game going forward. I really hope that the roadmap that we just released is something that illustrates that to players.

Keller:  우선 무료화 했고, 5대5로 변경했고 그거에 따른 추후 컨텐츠들도 다른 5대5 포멧에 맞췄습니다. 똑같은 영웅이 있다고 같은 게임이라고 보면 안됩니다. 로드맵에서 볼 수 있듯이 우리 개발진은 오버워치1이 아닌 2를 개발하고 있습니다. 그점을 로드맵을 통해 유저들이 볼 수 있었으면 좋겠습니다.



1. PvE는 더 이상 메인 컨텐츠가 아니다. 옵치1 협동전 생각하면 될 것 같다.

2. PvE 축소됬으니 이제 PvP 중점으로 돌아가는건가? / 오버워치2 출시전부터 그러고 있었다.

3. 그러면 왜 2라고 재포장 해서 출시했음? / 로드맵 보면 알 수 있다.