Is it even an online multiplayer game if it isn’t rife with fan theories and conspiracies" With the emphasis Blizzard puts on lore, Overwatch is the perfect game to obsessively analyze and the developers know this well. In fact, they invite it. We saw this as they teased their latest hero, Hammond. And just look at this reddit user stmaurer piecing everything together. Now, barcodes are appearing all over the game and people are bringing out their detective skills once again.
Reddit user Karahe breaks down all the instances of barcodes in this post. Some of these have been on character skins, armor, maps, and even loot boxes. But what’s notable is that some barcodes have been added to new things such as Brigitte’s armor and Hammond’s wrecking ball mech. The barcodes don’t scan, obviously, and are pretty blurry so people are trying to decipher them as letters from some sort of custom font. Lately Overwatch seems to be an ARG as much as it is a MOBA, with players rushing to pick apart the world and connect dots that may or may not be there. For those unfamiliar with the concept of an ARG it’s the meta of a game. Playing an ARG means picking at the fabric of the game itself and using real life elements and analysis to discover something new. It means that
players [are] working collaboratively through email, phone/sms contact, real-time interactions and extensive online engagement. Players generally react to narrative cues that are pro...