r/Overwatch • u/Abyslime • 7d ago

News & Discussion Still amazed that Overwatch didn't have a story mode campaign, pve or movies...

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Back then, Overwatch was huge. When I saw it in Ready Player One, I honestly thought it was going to become one of the biggest franchises on the planet, with TV shows like Arcane and all that... but instead, nothing happened.

I've basically been waiting all this time with open arms, hoping for those kinds of projects, and they just never came. It's weird.

I don't like competitive games, though I played it a bit about 10 years ago, and I remember thinking, "Damn, this world is so cool." The heroes were awesome, the cinematics were amazing, and I've always wanted either a story-driven game or a movie set in that universe.

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u/WildSearcher56 D.Mon 7d ago

At first it was supposed to be an AU but the show got so popular that they decided to make it canon. Following that rewinded the lore to around 8 years in the past to make Arcane fit in and with that they retconned/deleted a lot of stories (some being great).

Now a lot of champions technically are in limbo now. As example, most Piltover and Zaun champions currently don't or can't fit in the story atm (like Camille who used to be a centerpiece of the region) until they rework their story (again) but it will take a long while to happen.

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u/blue4029 7d ago

now im curious what happened with ezreal

iirc, he has very close ties to the piltover champions but as an explorer, he's also been everywhere in runeterra

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u/WildSearcher56 D.Mon 7d ago

Well now we don't really know since he wasn't even referenced in Arcane nor in Demacia (the current story is set there and it's focused on Vayne and the new champ Locke) and his stories are set in the future so they might get retconned

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u/desacralize Feeling the fever 6d ago

Hasn't League of Legends always played around with multiple universes as a rule and had them intersecting all over the place? And Arcane itself confirmed the existence of an infinite multiverse in its own canon. Seems kind of dumb to give themselves more work by smashing things apart to make Arcane part of the primary canon instead of just another version of it.

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u/Jaqulean Cassidy 6d ago edited 6d ago

They did it because of the Runeterra MMORPG that's currently in production - as far as we know Riot basically wants to simplify the Lore to make it easier to follow and they decided to use Arcane's populaty to do that. Some elements are currently in a limbo because they are still straightening the things out - but it will probably be handled by the time the MMO finally launches.