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Staff at Activision Blizzard are preparing to contract with the Saudi Arabian state-owned ESL FACEIT Group to run the 2024 Overwatch season, effectively dissolving the existing Overwatch League, sources familiar with those discussions told The Jacob Wolf Report.

Activision Blizzard's sought proposals for who will run that new system over the past few months and the ESL FACEIT Group, backed with an unmatched level of resources in the current grim state of the esports industry, will likely emerge the victor based on current discussions, sources said

Overwatch League Shutdown Vote Underway as Activision Blizzard Prepares for Esports' Future

After six years of running the most expensive esports league ever, Activision Blizzard is preparing to close the Overwatch League.

www.jacobwolf.report

 

[Cert.in.Death]

Isn’t this what you call IRL power creep?

As a side note, everyone who likes video games should really give golf a try.

 

[adamsapple]

Absolutely halal.

 

[Doom85]

As a side note, everyone who likes video games should really give golf a try.

 

[Hudo]

I mean, garbage belongs in the garbage bin so it's quite fitting.

 

[Morrie’s wig shop]

Isn’t this what you call IRL power creep?

As a side note, everyone who likes video games should really give golf a try.

?Was there a LIV comment in there?

I didn’t read it

 

[Cert.in.Death]

?Was there a LIV comment in there?

I didn’t read it

We’re conducting a cognizance test

 

[Nydius]

Overwatch League is dead and, per the article, many of the teams are going to just get out of eSports entirely. This new Saudi run thing will be a zombie league that has even fewer viewers than OWL did.

This GIF feels appropriate.

 

[Wolfpact1983]

Absolutely halal.

 

[Reaseru]

Ah, the place where every Overwatch hero is straight...

 

[ByWatterson]

Under Microsoft, ABK is already more ethical, diverse, and open-minded!

 

[Bradamante3D]

Jacob Wolf is somebody you can follow, if you want to know more about "e-sports winter" and how Saudi money is buying related business left and right, you can also watch Richard Lewis' stuff or the losely related The Four Horsemen from Last Free Nation.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

This is the game that has all the LGBTQ+ characters that Islam diametrically opposes in every way right? That game?

 

[Red5]

Oh and just in time for the newly announced non-binary hero. And yes by law LGBTQ stuff is strictly prohibited there up to the point where you can't import and sell children books with rainbows in them.