Uh i've watched updates hello heroes of overwatch. The team has been making great progress on the development over watch. Two daily play tests and feedback have given us confidence that we're creating something you're going to love. At the same time, we want to get the game in your hand soon, which leads to why i'm here today, but before i get to that, i want to thank our players for your continued support.

We recognize yes, this is just at home. We haven't communicated well, haven't kept you up to date and honestly, we've let you down when it comes to delivering overwatch content. We hear you and we're committed to more continual updates on all things. Overwatch too.

This starts with my update to you today, based on your feedback, we've taken some time to rethink overwatch 2 with the singular goal of ensuring it is a living game serving our players with exciting content on a regular basis, and we are shifting our plan for overwatch To to enable you to play it sooner, this starts with us decoupling the pvp features of the game from the pve systems, so we can bring you pvp sooner. This includes the new 5v5 team format, new heroes, new maps, the new push game mode, significant hero updates and reworks, and many new gameplay features, including, for example, a new ping system when you put it all together, this represents the most new. It's brought to our game. Since launch guys, this is risk as i'm not a product manager, product uh genius.

This is when those are doing it, they're releasing pvp first and then pve, guys, they're missing a big timing window of interest who are involved and interested in the character's stories or whatever people will still watch soon. They'll. Think! Oh, it is the watch too and it'll stop thinking about it right. So the push the push for the stories, the and the characters and the big push of people that go from pve to pvp, it's completely lost.

Instead, you only get pvp to pvp and prove a pv might not even jump in when pv comes out. This is risky, it's incredibly risky. Let me take a moment to share how we got here. A few years ago, we made the call to focus our team's development efforts almost entirely on overwatch 2.

and as development of the sequel stretched on it meant that the live game received less focus. It meant that we were no longer delivering on one of our core values to support our game by updating it and delivering content on a regular basis. Today's change in approach enables us to deliver frequent pvp content to the live game, with the goal of far exceeding overwatch's previous rate of content release and making the live game the most vibrant and dynamic pvp experience anywhere. In that spirit, i'd like to share that we are beginning overwatch, 2 pvp testing this week with a closed alpha containing many of these pvp features, as well as a new hero sojourn.

The alpha will be run under nda and be limited to blizzard employees and key partners like overwatch league pros as they get ready for the next season. I'm also excited to announce that we will be opening the first closed, pvp beta in late april, so we can start all i can say. Okay, all i can say is that uh um um is that uh today i missed it, but um testing this content with more players. If you're interested in participating in this upcoming beta, please visit playoverwatch.com, i had to do my taxes.

I had my taxes following that. First beta test: we are planning additional public pvp beta testing later in the year, which will include new features, new maps and yes, new heroes. I want to come back to how we started this conversation, improving our communication to all of you. We know you are eager for more information.

As i stated earlier, starting now, we will be communicating much more frequently i'm chilling during and after each beta, we'll share updates about what we're learning changes, we're considering and what we'll look to test next, we look forward to what is it to make overwatch 2 amazing Together, this is going to be an exciting year for overwatch and we're looking forward to taking this journey together. Thank you for your dedication, your passion and your patience. I can't wait to see players in our alpha and future guys. Have other players said that they're in the alpha or whatnot? I have other players that are not overwatch league people have admitted that they're in it or are they all locked behind nba beta builds and, of course, the entire team can't wait to get over watch two in your hands, thanks for watching be good to each other And we'll talk soon interesting, um yeah nah.

I wasn't part of that. Okay, um, guys, guys i'll give you guys a one minute speech, okay and then we're moving on to ready, don't meet the stream. Let me just him guys guys. Let me explain.

Let me explain the game: you think that lore is irrelevant. You know stories and environments and a world that the companies create or whatever okay, but but stories, lore and and and everything that isn't gameplay is the backbone that supports the game when the the experience isn't at it's, what makes the game live on and and and And evolve, okay think about overwatch, but they got ta watch again at first it was a big hit right. Boom boom right, big hit the story because at the beginning of watch, wasn't meant to be a a shooter it wasn't. The game was not meant to be a shooter, i'm pretty sure the game was called titans at first it was going to be.

It was going to be wow pretty much like the next wow pretty much right. Titan it was called, and uh literally overnight, is that funky we're getting a shooter literally, so they so the stories, the environment of the world was rich of stories and content right. So whenever the gimmicks, the actual, so this is this is this - is this? Is a player experience? It's very. The blue line is a player experience right.

You know people like the game boom boom boom, but then the games are going down in in in in uh how people enjoy the game right right right. But what remains what i mean? What do you think remains? What do people remember? The richness people are still engaged with overwatch. Why why it's it's lingering because of the richness, because of all the all the uh, all the stories and the ending and the porn, but what you get? Oh wait, man! What are you guys always an issue man? Where is doing this man, okay, okay and game? I think games these days need to understand this philosophy. It's very important.

You need two examples of games that did not do this that struggle to have their players engaged with the characters. Big games, apex valorant, some of the biggest shooter games out there, some of the biggest and league the league - is the very good job at coming. Back from that, but still they they failed to introduce the characters in a meaningful way without a lot of story with a lot of whatever right now. Nobody really gives a no now they're coming later on and and later on.

Yes, my air - i i can't i can't i'll just move on. I i can't get today. I can't talk. I can't do anything, i'm sorry man, but the hairs in my face.

I it's so bad man, i'm gon na start, crying. Okay, um guys i'll watch one one minute. Video tonight give me.