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00:05Happy New Year everyone, this is Jeff from the Overwatch team.
00:08Everyone here at Blizzard wants to wish you the happiest of New Years.
00:12We thought it would be a great opportunity to take a few minutes
00:15to look back on what 2017 was all about.
00:18We had so much fun working on the game during that period.
00:22If you remember, the year started when we released the Oasis map,
00:26which was really cool because it came so soon in January,
00:30and everyone had a lot of fun playing on Oasis,
00:33having a new control map for the first time.
00:35Later in the year, we released three brand new heroes.
00:38We had Orisa, Doomfist, and finally Moira.
00:43So I think they all worked out really well.
00:45We've gotten a ton of good feedback.
00:47People have really enjoyed playing those heroes.
00:49That was a lot of fun.
00:51The other thing that I particularly enjoyed out of 2017
00:55that we worked on was a bunch of new game modes.
00:57I know we had said we were never going to make Deathmatch,
01:00but then we added it to the game, and it turned out to be a ton of fun.
01:03We added that Chateau map, which was, I think, a blast for Deathmatch.
01:08And then we also worked a lot on those elimination modes
01:11and added a bunch of arena maps to the game.
01:14So that was a lot of fun in addition.
01:16Plus we had some great animated shorts last year,
01:20and the feedback on those was really amazing.
01:22So I think all in all, 2017 was a great year.
01:26In addition to the stuff I mentioned,
01:28there were so many other bits of content and features.
01:32Now I know what you're all wondering is,
01:34hey, it's 2018 now.
01:36What do we have to look forward to from the Overwatch team?
01:41And we're super fired up for this year.
01:43There's a lot of stuff that we want to address.
01:45Obviously the stuff coming more immediately,
01:48as we've mentioned before,
01:50we have all of those great Overwatch League skins coming soon
01:53that you'll be able to get in the game.
01:56So those are going to look great and be fantastic.
01:58Plus the start of the Overwatch League is going to be incredibly exciting.
02:02The preseason was amazing.
02:04We had so much fun watching the teams
02:06that I think the season is going to be fantastic.
02:09We're going to release Blizzard World very soon,
02:12and I think that map is one of our best.
02:14Not only is it a gorgeous map with tons of great Easter eggs in it,
02:18but we're also trying a lot of different things with the gameplay
02:21and certain areas of how we handle the level design
02:23that I think will make for a really fun and competitive hybrid map.
02:28Now beyond that, there's a lot of stuff in the works,
02:31and I'm going to be vague about some of this
02:33because I can't reveal everything that we're working on.
02:36But obviously one of the things that is most important to us is Heroes.
02:40Overwatch is a game about Heroes,
02:42and we are well along the path on Hero 27.
02:46We think the Hero is going to be awesome.
02:48We think the Hero is very needed.
02:50The Hero, we're not really sure exactly when the release date is.
02:55The release date is less important to us than getting the Hero right.
02:59We have the Hero in internal testing,
03:01and so far we're having a ton of fun,
03:05and we're making a lot of great progress.
03:07We're also thinking about Heroes beyond Hero 27 as well.
03:12There's some great new maps in the works also
03:15that you will learn more about in the future.
03:18We know the things that you guys love are new Heroes and new maps.
03:22Beyond that, we're going to continue to work on improving competitive play.
03:27Now I know this is important to a lot of players
03:30for a lot of different reasons,
03:31and I sort of want to talk about our strategy a little bit.
03:34On the one hand, we feel like as each season rolls out,
03:39new season of competitive,
03:41we want to make good short-term strategic and tactical fixes
03:45to competitive play to improve them.
03:47So for example, as Season 8 is starting,
03:51we're removing the performance-based skill rating metric
03:56from players who are diamond and above.
03:59As an example, that was something that you gave us a ton of feedback on.
04:02We're listening, and we're going to make that change.
04:04We see that as a very short-term change.
04:06Now long-term, we keep listening to feedback and talking internally
04:12about what do we want competitive play to be like ultimately.
04:17And as the year goes on, we want to kind of evolve our plan
04:21for what competitive play looks like over the long-term of Overwatch.
04:26And does it take a different shape or form?
04:28And that's still to be determined, but I just want to share with you
04:32some of our thoughts and some of what we're working on here at Blizzard.
04:37The other things that are going on is we want to continue
04:39the story development of Overwatch.
04:42And we're talking a lot about how to further the storyline
04:45that we've been telling.
04:46We've been talking a lot about Winston's recall that went out
04:49and how different people have responded to that.
04:52I think you saw how May responded to the recall in Rise and Shine,
04:56and how Reinhardt responded to the recall in Honor and Glory.
05:00That's a continued storyline that we want to explore,
05:04and we hope to do that through both our animated shorts and comics as well.
05:09Those are things that we're really invested in
05:11and have a lot of passion behind.
05:13The other thing that we're putting a lot of time into
05:16is our upcoming events.
05:19So as you guys know, last year for Lunar New Year,
05:21it was Year of the Rooster.
05:24Upcoming very soon is Year of the Dog.
05:27will be this year's Lunar New Year event.
05:30There will be more details coming out about that,
05:33but I think that there's some pretty significant content
05:35that players are going to be very happy with.
05:38And some other stuff that we've been listening to you
05:41give us feedback on that we're going to make changes on
05:44during that Year of the Dog event.
05:46We're also planning what is to be the next iteration of Uprising.
05:54Uprising was the lore-based event that we ran in April of last year,
05:59and we know that Uprising should return
06:01for players who never got to experience it in the first place.
06:05But we want to evolve it,
06:07and we want to put more thought against what that event could be.
06:11We have a lot of really big ideas,
06:14and we think that's going to be a lot of fun for players as well.
06:17And also, we like celebrating the anniversary of the release of the game.
06:21Last year we had all of those dance emotes that we released,
06:25one for every single hero.
06:27We know that you'd be very upset if there wasn't another chance
06:30to unlock those dance emotes,
06:33so the anniversary event will be coming back,
06:36along with everybody's favorite,
06:38which are legendary skins in all of these things.
06:41Speaking of skins, the feedback that we always get from the players is,
06:45we wish you would add more content to the base non-event loot box,
06:50and coming up very soon, hopefully sometime this month,
06:54will be a ton of new content into that base loot box
06:59that should feel really great.
07:00You don't have to worry about it being time-limited behind any event.
07:04That will be available from here forward.
07:07You'll always be able to have access to that in Overwatch.
07:11So we're really looking forward to the year.
07:13I'm only sort of touching the tip of the iceberg
07:16in terms of things that we're working on.
07:18We're really excited to continue to make the game great alongside of you,
07:22so we will give you way more detail
07:24than I'm giving you on all of this stuff right now.
07:26We'll go way more in-depth as we get closer on all of these things.
07:29But just know that all of us here at Blizzard
07:32and everyone here on the Overwatch team
07:33is committed to making Overwatch as great as it can be for you
07:37every single day, and it's going to be a fantastic 2018.
07:41So Happy New Year everyone,
07:43and looking forward to making another great year alongside of you.
07:53a lot of people are celebrating
07:54a new organization andische melting
07:54for all of them.
07:55We're all working on the beach now.
07:55And I see you in the U.S.
07:55The blessing of the Overwatch team
07:56begins into Academy on � ст.
07:56Grazie a tutti
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