{"id":79288,"date":"2026-05-21T10:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=79288"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:36:30","slug":"blizzard-admits-it-messed-up-overwatchs-10th-anniversary-event-but-insists-its-happy-with-where-the-game-is-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=79288","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Admits It Messed Up Overwatch\u2019s 10th Anniversary Event, but Insists It\u2019s \u2018Happy With Where the Game Is Today\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Overwatch is currently marking its 10th anniversary, but players haven\u2019t necessarily been in the mood to celebrate. With much of the fanbase expecting more from the in-game event, the backlash has put a slight halt to the momentum Blizzard\u2019s shooter had built up since its removal of the \u201c2\u201d and rebrand back to Overwatch.<\/p>\n<p>When the anniversary event started, players were required to sink a lot of time into completing matches and objectives in order to earn loot boxes containing new colorways and old skins. That grind for underwhelming loot isn\u2019t exactly what long-term fans (such as myself) were expecting to mark such a milestone.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"overwatch-the-reign-of-talon-new-hero-images\" data-value=\"overwatch-the-reign-of-talon-new-hero-images\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>To the developer\u2019s credit, a swift response was issued by game director Aaron Keller on social media, who stated that rewards would be increased and easier to obtain in weeks two and three of the event, guaranteeing players a minimum of 10 legendary skins each. <\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Looking ahead, we\u2019re also planning an\u202fadditional\u202fseason-long event\u202fin Season 3 with even more rewards, expanding the base level of earnable rewards in our weekly Play N Games tracker, while working on other ideas for later in\u202fthe year. 6\/8<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aaron Keller (@aaronkellerOW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronkellerOW\/status\/2055363963450523700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>But, for some,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overwatch is currently marking its 10th anniversary, but players haven\u2019t necessarily been in the mood to celebrate. With much of the fanbase expecting more from the in-game event, the backlash has put a slight halt to the momentum Blizzard\u2019s shooter had built up since its removal of the \u201c2\u201d and rebrand back to Overwatch. When&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":79290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79292,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79288\/revisions\/79292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}