In a developer update on Facebook, Blizzard game director Jeff Kaplan adressed a number of fan questions about the just launched Overwatch. One of the topics was the launch of "competitive mode", a feature that Blizzard pulled from the beta and omitted from the launch version of the game. A lot has changed since competitive was part of the beta.
"Competitive mode is the current focus of the Overwatch team," says Kaplan in the video. "And it's the most important thing for us to add to the game, right now."
"Players saw that we tried to get it in for closed beta, and we had a version in and working. The feedback that we were seeing was a little bit critical of some of the decisions we made and we really took that to heart. We said: 'we're making this for the players, and if it's not exactly what the players want we need to rethink what we're doing'. Our big first content update for Overwatch will be competitive mode. I don't want to promise an exact date, because I'm sure whatever date I say right now will be wrong. My rough commitment, or not commitment would be sometime towards the end of June, middle to end of June."
Kaplan also revealed that competitive mode is being played currently internally at Blizzard.