Overwatch Workshop

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Adding new game modes new heroes and working on the overall balance of the game Adding a feature that lets players create new stuff so they do the work instead

Overwatch players: Jeff, give us content Jeff:

to YOU F-----' MAKE IT THEN IF YOU RE SO GOD DAMN SMART

Me: Mom, can we have WORKSHOP DVERWATCH DVERWATCH Mom: No, we have At home. DVERWATCH WORKSHOP At home: SETTINGS MODES

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About

Overwatch Workshop is a feature in the multiplayer shooter game Overwatch which grants players access to a custom scripting system to make new game modes to play.

History

On April 24th, 2019, the PlayOverwatch YouTube channel released a developer update video titled "Introducing Workshop" (shown below). Within 24 hours, the video received more than 700,000 views and 8,500 comments.

Online Presence

That day, the announcement video reached the front page of the /r/Overwatch^[1] and /r/OverwatchUniversity^[2] subreddits. Meanwhile, Redditor BlueLightningTN submitted a post^[3] noting that "mass ressurection" could be readded to the game by players who know how to script it by using the Workshop. Also on April 24th, Redditor ChemicalWeather posted a video of a custom Workshop mod allowing the character Mei to surf along her ice trails (shown below).

Finally able to create something I've always wanted – Silver Surfer Mei! from r/Overwatch

On April 25th, the video game news site PC Gamer^[4] published an article titled "The Overwatch Workshop has already spawned great mods," highlighting several videos of modified Overwatch games using the Workshop feature.