Aaron Keller, game director of "Overwatch 2," apologized for last week's announcement about upcoming changes that will grant self-healing abilities to all tanks and DPS heroes.

The addition of self-healing abilities for tanks and DPS heroes represents a genuine sea change for "Overwatch 2." Associate Editor and "Overwatch" expert Tyler Colp said that Blizzard is "putting the hammer down on the way 'Overwatch 2' is played," and that the new passive abilities "are the first clear step in taking the support player out of the focus on the team, essential reason why anyone would want to play that role in the first place," he called it.

"'Overwatch' once celebrated teamwork, but now it's become such a pesky little burden that every balance change or hero release is aimed at mitigating it," Korpp wrote. By minimizing the opportunity for support to intervene, "the distinction between the three roles blurs, and the web that holds the team together melts away with it. Instead of a balletic venue for teamwork, these changes flatten "Overwatch" into a cartoonish shooting gallery.

Keller's subsequent apology is not about the planned addition of self-healing, but about the way it was revealed. Keller tweeted, "A couple of things to clarify about self-healing." 'This is part of a larger set of changes being introduced to the game in S9. Internally, we are talking about the spines of damage in the game, the role of DPS in securing kills, the strength of healing, and targeting some of these changes.

"It was a mistake to talk about this single change out of context as it is part of a much larger set that will be implemented in season 9. We apologize for that." "I look forward to hearing more about the balance changes in S9."

The implication is that the addition of self-healing to everyone, which was not accepted by so many players on Reddit and Blizzard's forums, makes more sense when considered along with everything else Blizzard has coming up in the new season That is. Of course, we can't judge until all is revealed, but this means that the addition of the universal self-healing passive, which is undeniably a very big change for the game, is only part of what will bring an even bigger overhaul to "Overwatch 2" than we had expected It should also not be overlooked that this means that.

It will be very interesting to see how the player base of "Overwatch 2" reacts to the complete changes once more details are released. So far, reactions to Keller's tweet have been mixed. Some players are hopeful that the new season will revitalize the game, while many remain skeptical: in the words of Tyler Colp, the tank hero Mauga, who "single-handedly ruined the game for matches of all skill levels" until he was significantly nerfed has recently appeared on the scene, and this sentiment seems to have been reinforced by the recent appearance of the

It is unclear when the rest of the changes that Season 9 will bring to Overwatch 2 will be revealed, but given the current state of player dissatisfaction, it is likely that we will see something soon.