Overwatch Won't Have Competitive Play at Launch
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Overwatch's latest beta won't include ranked Competitive Play, and won't be active in the game until "sometime after" the full game launches on 24th May. Competitive Play had been planned for the beta, but has been temporarily disabled until Blizzard manages to work out the balance.
"We worked extremely hard to get Competitive Play in the game for closed beta," says Game Director Jeff Kaplan on the Overwatch forums. "We've been reading feedback from the community and taking it all to heart. As a result, we've temporarily disabled Competitive Play for Open Beta so that we can rework the system and make it better."
Since Overwatch's Competitive Play is unbalanced in the state it was when added to the closed beta in April, Blizzard plans to reactivate it in the game shortly after release. "Our plan is to bring back a newly re-designed version of Competitive Play sometime after Overwatch launches," said Kaplan.
"Thanks for all of the feedback, and thank you for being patient with us while we work to improve the game," he concludes.
The Overwatch open beta is live now for anyone who pre-ordered the game before 29th April, while it'll go All Access for everyone on 5th May until 9th May. If you have an early access code, you need to activate it using a Battle,net account in order to connect to the servers.