World Building of Overwatch: Making a Difference

The story actually begins with the project before Overwatch – called Titan. Titan was to be a successor MMO to World of Warcraft. Blizzard started working on the game in 2007. In May of 2013 it was canceled. 140 developers were working on this game and suddenly it was over. 80 people were relocated to other teams (Diablo, Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, StarCraft 2) and 40 developers had to come up with the new idea, a new game. They had to do it in 6 weeks. If they failed, they would have to move to other teams as well. During this time Overwatch was born.