Just to start off this isn’t a post ranting about Hammond and his lore, though it does have something to do with this post.
As a Blizzard vet I’ve played all of there games, from Diablo - Warcraft and one of my favorite thing I’ve loved about all of them was the story and lore. Now when Overwatch first came out I loved the background lore of the world and its heroes and was very excited for the lore that would come out for this game. Now at this point I’m sure most of us have figured that the focus of the Dev team is the gameplay and not advancing the story. Now I’m not saying thats a bad thing, this was advertised as a FPS game and not a story game and I do love playing the game, but I do feel like a amazing world is going to waste.
Also we’ve yet to get a official response from Blizzard about the state of the story for us who do care about it, which I know isn’t the majority. If I had to guess the story is just there for the occasional skin, adding heroes, new maps and the 1 lore event a year. Now I want to reiterate I know the priority of the Overwatch Team is game play and the Overwatch league, and not lore for obvious reasons. But still doesn’t mean I can’t ask for at least a update on current lore and if they have any major plans for going forward beyond minor stuff that do little to advance the story, eg Hammond, even though he is a fun edition to the game he didn’t really shake up the story in any significant way.
Anyways thats all for my mini rant, still love the game just would love a bit more lore