Overwatch "Blizzard World" Map Pulled From Rotation
By: Bryce L. Jackson
Yesterday, Overwatch’s Winter Wonderland event started, featuring Blizzard World as this year’s themed map. Today, it is out of the map rotation.
Players have reported that the map is glitched so that a team cannot leave the spawn room. User “The_Nerk” posted a video on the r/Overwatch subreddit where his team was stuck in spawn while the opposing team wandered outside the spawnroom doors. Their team was eventually kicked for “inactivity”. Other reddit users have also posted video of this glitch in action.
A Blizzard representative posted an update on the Blizzard Forums acknowledging the bug and announced that they have temporarily disabled it from all playlists including “No Limits” and “Mystery Heroes” on all platforms and also gave no estimate of when the map will return to the rotation.
UPDATE: December 14th 3:30pm
Blizzard Ent. Customer Service Twitter account posted that Blizzard World is back in the map rotation.