Overwatch Community Manager Lylirra has posted an update over at the battle.net forums confirming that while the game’s eagerly awaited Competitive Play mode has been patched into PC versions and is now live, Xbox One & PlayStation 4 players will have to wait a short while longer, thanks to the store approval process on said platforms.
“If you’ve been following our developer videos or forum posts, you know that the Overwatch team has been working hard to finish our upcoming patch which includes Competitive Play (as well as a few other quality-of-life changes). From the beginning, our intent has been to release this patch by the end of June—and since July is nearly here, we wanted to give you a quick status update.
First, we wanted to be upfront and let players know that we won’t be able to release our Competitive Play patch on all platforms at the same time. The patch will be going live on PC today, while PlayStation 4 and Xbox One players can expect it sometime next week. We don’t have an exact date to share, but we can confirm that the patch is going through approvals right now on both platforms.
We know this isn’t an ideal way to deliver new content, so we’re going to continue to refine our patching processes over the next few months in an effort to sync up our release dates across platforms as closely possible. Although our Battle.net client will always allow us to be more agile on PC, we hope to reach a point where we can release major updates on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 simultaneously.”
Overwatch, Blizzard’s team based hero-shooter, is out now – and scored an impressive 9/10 in our review.
Source: Battle.net
