{"id":62270,"date":"2021-11-22T12:23:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T17:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/2021\/11\/22\/overwatch-en-2021\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T18:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T22:28:07","slug":"overwatch-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/2021\/11\/22\/overwatch-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been following me for several years, you know that I had high expectations for Overwatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Note: This article is an automated translation. For the original article, click on Fran\u00e7ais in the menu.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016, I even predicted that the game would be the benchmark for First Person Shooter (FPS) games before 2018 (<a href=\"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/2016\/05\/17\/overwatch-the-game-the-competitive-fps-scene-needed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a>). Then came the announcement of the Overwatch League (<a href=\"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/2017\/11\/28\/announcement-overwatch-path-to-pro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a>) and the first professional teams (<a href=\"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/2017\/07\/12\/the-first-seven-overwatch-league-teams-are-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a>)in 2017. In 2019, I still had hope for the game, even though I no longer played it (<a href=\"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/2019\/05\/23\/third-anniversary-for-overwatch\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/2019\/05\/23\/troisieme-anniversaire-pour-overwatch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now in 2021, even though the game is still theoretically in Tier 2 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Esports\/Sections\/Media\/2021\/10\/Q3-2021-TEO-PC-Games-Impact-Index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TEO, 2021<\/a>),  and there are a lot of players who still love the game (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/overwatch\/how-many-people-play-overwatch-player-count-tracker-2021-1643403\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dexerto, 2021<\/a>), I have a lot of reluctance. Obviously, the scandals don&#8217;t help to be positive about the situation (<a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/everything-that-has-happened-since-the-activision-blizz-1847401161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kotaku, 2021<\/a>). Although I still dream of seeing an organization of e-sports teams based in Montreal and that would play games in Montreal like in traditional sports, it is probably not with Overwatch 2 that I will see this dream come true\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting video from theScore esports that inspired this short article. There are other points worth exploring in more depth, but that would require further analysis. If this is something you&#8217;re interested in doing with me, you know where to find me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This is How You Kill a Game\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DaWT1Qk6ows?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been following me for several years, you know that I had high expectations for Overwatch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exploratory","category-gaming-blog","category-206","category-205","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62294,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62270\/revisions\/62294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}