@ThunderKurono I refuse, I simply refuse to give OW a privilege to be considered cyberpunk. Its relation to cyberpunk is the same as relation of KISS to rock music - naught but a technicality, a twisting of a concept to a point of open mockery. It is a Saturday Cartoon version of the real thing. Now, Blizzard's management of the franchise - this is there you can get a sniff of what cyberpunk really is. Or, rather, was. Because it is dead.
Oh, and by the way - cyberpunk was conceptualized as a movement against genre labels in sci-fi. The moment it was christened as "cyberpunk" was the moment of the death blow, and the moment the label was accepted by the multitudes was the moment cyberpunk died. Cyberpunk is dead, fuckers - what you perceive as "cyberpunk" is naught but a shambling corpse, a mindless zombie, rotting on the spot, and splattering its liquefied insides all around. You see it, and you say "hey, that's a cool cyberpunk, all right, I like it" in face of the hollowed out shell of its former self, utterly and irreversibly devoid of all sense and meaning.
Face it, the sky above the port will never be the color of television, tuned to a dead channel - and no one ever would be able to mend that. It's too late. And anyway - soon, nobody would even know what the "dead channel" meant in the context of the quote.
Considering that there is actual archne style eyewear made by Kiroshi optics, turning widowmaker into a Malstrom was not just a bad choice but a major fail by the artist..
This is an interesting concept that I would love to see fleshed out more. OW is more futurist than Cyberpunk in my opinion. While there is advanced technology and weapons in OW, it lacks the dystopian elements key to cyberpunk. Seeing OW in a darker and more classically cyberpunk world it definitely has an interesting edge.