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For Penna and Dan “Chump” Tousenard, the founder of Hubris, it’s “more ambiguous,” he says. Both are working careers that make it tough to drop everything to focus on competition when there are no guarantees of a payoff. Will Overwatch really be a big esport? How much money will Blizzard devote to Overwatch? The company has already committed more than $4.5 million to Heroes of the Storm, a game that will likely be smaller than Overwatch, as it competes in the far more packed multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) genre.