{"id":6940,"date":"2022-09-15T23:21:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T23:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/15\/the-last-day-to-play-the-original-overwatch-will-be-early-next-month\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T23:21:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T23:21:23","slug":"the-last-day-to-play-the-original-overwatch-will-be-early-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/15\/the-last-day-to-play-the-original-overwatch-will-be-early-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Last Day&#8221; To Play The Original Overwatch Will Be Early Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Assault maps are also being dropped.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/overwatch_2\">Overwatch 2<\/a> will arrive on the Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms early next month as a free-to-play title.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this, Blizzard has announced it will be shutting down the original game&#8217;s servers. This will take place just days before the second game&#8217;s launch on 4th October. Here&#8217;s how Blizzard&#8217;s commercial lead Jon Spector explained it to our friends over at <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-last-day-of-overwatch-1-will-be-2nd-october-blizzard-confirms\">Eurogamer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/09\/the-last-day-to-play-the-original-overwatch-will-be-early-next-month\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]The &#8220;Last Day&#8221; To Play The Original Overwatch Will Be Early Next Month<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Assault maps are also being dropped.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/overwatch_2\">Overwatch 2<\/a> will arrive on the Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms early next month as a free-to-play title.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this, Blizzard has announced it will be shutting down the original game&#8217;s servers. This will take place just days before the second game&#8217;s launch on 4th October. Here&#8217;s how Blizzard&#8217;s commercial lead Jon Spector explained it to our friends over at <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-last-day-of-overwatch-1-will-be-2nd-october-blizzard-confirms\">Eurogamer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/09\/the-last-day-to-play-the-original-overwatch-will-be-early-next-month\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}