Tomorrow is your last full day to play Overwatch 1 - Rock Paper Shotgun

Blizzard's first-person shooter will switch off at 8am PT on the 3rd (4pm BST) ahead of the release of the free-to-play Overwatch 2 on October 4th.

I feel like an old man crumbling to dust everytime I say this, but the switch-over means that Overwatch 1, a game that a lot of people paid for, will no longer be playable.

Sure, as a live service game maybe it had already changed beyond recognition after six years anyway, but it's still weird to me that no one seems to mind that it's going away.

Should we just accept this is the way of things and welcome Overwatch 2's glorious free-to-play future, or are you as weirded out by the ephemerality of modern games as I am.

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