Blizzard says forget about Overwatch 2's support players, soon anyone can heal themselves

Blizzard just can't help but make some baffling changes to Overwatch 2, the latest being an upcoming one that will give every hero a passive healing ability. I'm no Overwatch expert. I've put a few hours into it, I was OK at it, but I'm not exactly someone who knows all the ins-and-outs. That said, the idea of adding in a self-healing passive in a game that has support characters whose express purpose is to heal its teammates, feels like a bit of an odd choice, even to me. Blizzard explained the upcoming change in a recent blog post, where it shared that in season 9, "both Tank and Damage heroes will get a modified, tuned-down version of the Support self-healing passive. This should give non-Support players more options in terms of sustaining themselves. "It should also take some of the pressure off Support players to keep everyone alive since individual players now have more control of their own health pool. In Overwatch, there is a constant tug of war between the power of a team and the power of an individual hero or player. A change like this shifts that balance a bit. This is something that we are constantly evaluating. We still want Overwatch to be defined by team strategy and mechanics, but we feel this can be pulled back a bit now and possibly more in the future." Read more