Overwatch 2 forgot a small detail in its latest trailer. This is pretty embarrassing – but also makes for amusing discussions.
The next season of Overwatch 2 starts this week and brings “Venture Forth” (“Off to Adventure”), the 10th season of the hero shooter. A lot was shown in advance, including interesting skins and insights into new or revised maps.
However, there was a rather embarrassing mistake in one of these trailers that was noticed too late. Because Blizzard had left a voice in the trailer that had no business being there.
You can see the trailer for season 10 here:
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What happened? In the trailer for Hanaoka, a new map from Overwatch 2, the map was shown in detail in a clip. Music was playing in the background, just as accompanying material. Suddenly, however, the music is interrupted by a voice saying loudly: “Music Licensing Reimagined” and a few seconds later “Art List IO”.
Both obviously had no place in the trailer.
What kind of voice is that? These are “watermarks” – similar to how the source of images is placed semi-transparently on the image so that it cannot be used by strangers.
This is often the case with music when it is either sample music or you have already presented the piece to the buyer of the music, but the piece is not yet final or the purchase has not yet been completed.
After the incident was picked up in the Overwatch 2 subreddit, Blizzard immediately took the relevant clip offline – but of course the community recorded it. In the following video you can hear the corresponding passages at second 14 and second 44:
Is this the first incident? What is curious is that this is not the first incident of this kind. The exact same passage has already been forgotten in a trailer in the past and even back then the fans had a lot of fun with it. This was last season:
In addition, there have been some layoffs at Blizzard in recent years. The music department, which has contributed numerous works in the past, is also said to have been affected by this. This seems to explain why Overwatch 2 now uses external music and outsources this work.
Is the music “stolen”? That’s almost certainly not the case. It is likely that Blizzard commissioned or purchased a piece of music and only experimented with the “trial version,” which still contains the recorded watermark. The fact that this is overlooked again and again before the final upload of the trailer is rather strange.
But Overwatch 2 at least remains in discussion. Somehow.
After all: All heroes in Overwatch 2 are immediately unlocked for everyone.