Last week, Blizzard revealed that when Overwatch 2 launches on October 4th, it will overwrite Overwatch Prime, effectively ending the six-year-old game. The original Overwatch’s days are numbered.

‘when ow2 launches on October 4th it will be a replacement for the current live service,’ said game director Aaron Keller.

Overwatch will cease to be, ending the 6v6 format and banishing the assault game type to the relative obscurity of the custom game corner. The news came as a bit of a surprise since, originally, Overwatch prime and Overwatch 2 were supposed to coexist.

Overwatch 2 has switched to a free-to-play model. Players’ unlocked skins and other cosmetics transfer over. The two games are now siloed.

Content players have unlocked in Overwatch will automatically carry over to players in Overwatch 2. When Overwatch 2 launches as a free-to-play live service game on October 4th, it will replace the current Overwatch build.

Blizzard intends to create a new currency with ow2. The old coins wo n’t be able to buy everything on offer.

A complete reset would mean that games would be completely imbalanced for weeks or longer across the entire service. The new system will lower the MMR of accounts that have n’t played in a while to ensure matches at all levels of the ladder are as equal as they can be.

Relegating the game mode to custom matches means that I’ll no longer play it. I’m a little sad that all the new comes at the expense of the old.