Blizzard should prioritise releasing Npcs over making new characters
Ever since the rebrand, 5 out of the 8 new characters have been former npcs which is great. However, that brings a problem. The community is fed up with East Asian and a large portion of Npcs are of East Asian origins. The Hashimoto, Yōkai, the M.E.K.A squad, Vishkar, Mama-Hong and the Yamagami coupple are all of East Asian origin. I do understand that that's a lot but still. There are other factions as well that doesn't originate from East Asia such as The Phreaks, The Junkers, Helix and The Deadlock gang. Tho the only 3 Npcs that I can't see be playable and frankly should stay as Npcs are Maximilian, Toshiro Yamagami and Pompamoto, the rest should be playable. I know that a lot of them are of East Asian origin but all I have to say about that is "sucks to suck". Bottom line is that I wish for Npc-jail to be more or less empty before they start to make new characters andbadding them to tje game. Also, this doesn't just apply to Overwatch but to all character based games.
Posted Aug 18, 2026, 12:09 PM UTC