After the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard by Microsoft, it was the perfect opportunity for Bobby Kotick, CEO of the famous group, to give numerous interviews. One of them was not to the liking of the game’s producer.
It has been now Overwatch 2 has been known to be in development for over two years. While it was announced at BlizzCon 2019, we don’t know. still no more regarding a possible release date, despite the expectations of the players, can’t wait to get my hands on this game one day. Regarding the development time of the game, this question gave rise to a heated debate between Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision-Blizzard and Tracy Kennedy, the producer of Overwatch.
Since the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard by Microsoft was declared, Bobby Kotick hasn’t stopped giving interviews. It is with the journalists of VentureBeat, who questioned him about this takeover, that Bobby Kotick confides that the problems related to Activision Blizzard’s stock price have nothing to do with the legal situation experienced by the group, due in particular to cases of sexual assault. According to him, these problems are directly linked the delayed launch of some of their games, Overwatch 2 and Diablo IV.
Bobby, tell everyone about the random projects for OW1 you all would shove on us, the team would do OT for only them to get canceled and for months of OW2 dev to have been lost. Or how almost entire teams are turning over and quoting you as the reason. Don’t be shy. https://t.co/3ksVMMaCwf
— Tracy Kennedy?✊ (@dogspinster) January 19, 2022
Tracy Kennedy, following these statements, could not help but quickly speak, in total disagreement with what Kotick is saying. It is on Twitter that the producer of the Overwatch license announces that if Overwatch 2 was delayed, it was mainly because of Bobby Kotick himself. The latter has repeatedly asked developers to work on many topics regarding the first Overwatch, only to cancel them later. The developers then suffered a huge waste of time, several months. This was felt in the development of Overwatch 2, giving him even more delay.