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LotV preorder came with beta access and a few single-player missions so that you could play something right away, and only went up for sale after the final single-player campaign was basically ready to ship and an approximate release date was announced.

The Overwatch preorder is unfortunately the "give us money now for no good reason" sort of preorder and doesn't even come with beta access.



Overwatch has had playable gameplay since the day it was accepting any form of pre-order.

The gameplay displayed wasn't some buggy alpha with placeholders.

I am 99% certain Overwatch will actually be released, especially as it's gone in Beta which Pre-orders have access to(?).

As I said, you can't compare this to anything Blizzard does. Blizzard usually comes through.




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