A lot of player backlash surfaced online when Activision and Blizzard launched Overwatch 2. However, and despite the controversy, Overwatch 2 is a huge success for both companies. According to its official Twitter account, the game hit 25 million players in just ten days.
https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/1581004904121782273?t=o1r5VV-2CG-VW1xaT5aHdA&s=19
As we’ve already reported, Overwatch 2 requires a phone number, has a ping system, and has level grinding. The grinding was to be expected as this is a free-to-play game. Still, and despite all the whining, more than 25 players have played it. I guess everyone has mobile phones after all.
In Overwatch 2, new players have to win 50 quick-play matches to unlock competitive mode, and complete roughly 100 matches to unlock all the roster from the first Overwatch game.
You can download and start playing the game from Battlenet!
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mindless consumerism
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Its free alright? Boticus love free generic teamshooters with flashy abilities!
the gaming industry is beyond disappointed now
Disappointed or satisfied?
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Everytime without fault
Blizzard games are soulless compared to what they used to be, yes.
But they’re not bad really, they’re average or above.
And a few of them are free.
And man, fans do complain and the discontent is very apparent.
That still guarantees a sizeable userbase.
“But they’re not bad really”
lol
Overwatch is an incredibly polished game. It has audio that changed the industry standard and incredible design. It got kinda destroyed by bad new characters that replaced skill with just swapping heros but still it’s a game that is really f*king fun when it goes well.I don’t think overwatch 2 is better than the first game and honestly it’s probably worse but some of the new heros are pretty cool and not overpowered while introducing a little more skill to the mix.
sheep
it doesn’t even make sense
25 million players phone numbers sold to
spammersadvertisers.Acti-Blizz reduced the phone requirement a little while ago, though, hence, the 25M+ strong. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cd5a15fb963bcabda874170a162965cff7d3eba39d152aa28d0a45d8252ca34a.png
No shxt, it’s F2P. People will sample it for the helluva it solely based on the entrance fee. Whether they’ll actually be able to retain a decent playerbase is the real question.
it is not going to reach the peak of OW1 that is for granted. the question is whether it will end up with less players than the game had before the launch of the “sequel”.
and I think it will lose a lot of people. more aggressive monetization notwithstanding , the new playstyle has made the tanks dominant in a game where the majority was playing DPS. Also the healers have been buffed in their damage output, because that design change made them more vulnerable, so they had to be compensated for that.
The side-effect of all that is that it marginalized the DPS class, which will alienate its players. Unless they switch to the now powerful tanks as their mains/flex to stand a chance for a win, they are eventually going to leave the game.
This has happened before at least two times with the reworked Mercy and the newly introduced Bridgitte. Gamers will fed up if they get smashed relentlessly all the time by OP/broken heroes. and that is what is happening with the tanks right now.
delusionism supreme
Wow Rly?
Whoever accused the general population of humanity, of being intelligent? They are cattle. Cattle to be herded and harvested by corporations.
I don’t know, it’s sad to see, but, looks like “working as intended” to me.
No wonder the gaming industry sucks. The general consumers will play anything. The ones who are aware of the crappy state of gaming are in the minority. It really sucks being so aware of the shortcomings of these companies. It’s hard to ignore and no going back to being that innocent gamer that will play anything the industry releases.
If there’s too much people talking about a product on the internet, even as criticism, then it means there are too much people coomsuming the product. I just saw the news of the game requiring a phone number, lolled and moved on, last blizz game i played was Diablo 2 (not the remake).
apparently 25 million people LOL
that is not a surprise. it was to be expected that a lot of people would rush in to check a free game with an already established base, both old fans and new gamers. But OW1 was a premium title which reached 30m players in what 2 months? that game was a real phenomenon.
So 25m is not that impressive of a number under that context. Furthermore, the beta of OW2 also broke viewership records in Twitch, but it plummeted one week after the top streamers stopped playing it. So let’s wait and see how many active players OW2 will have in 6 months from now. I ll tell you now: less than 25m.
Your point of view caught my eye and was very interesting. Thanks. I have a question for you.