Blizzard Entertainment today announced that more than 9.7 million players around the world played its upcoming team-based shooter Overwatch during its Open Beta phase, thus making it Blizzard’s biggest open beta ever.
As Blizzard noted, by the time the Open Beta came to a close on May 10, participants had joined forces for more than 4.9 billion minutes (over 81 million hours) across more than 37 million matches of intense competitive action, incredible teamwork, and all-out fun.
Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment, said:
“We’re thrilled that such an incredible number of players from around the globe got a chance to check out Overwatch during the Open Beta. Our mission was to make sure as many console and PC gamers as possible could experience the full game ahead of its launch—the response was overwhelming, and we hope that everyone had a blast.”
In Overwatch, players choose from a diverse cast of 21 heroes—each with their own unique arsenal of extraordinary weapons and incredible abilities—and team up to complete objectives on battlefields set in locations around the globe.
Blizzard’s first-person shooter is planned for a May 24th release!
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This game is fun when you play with a group of friends. Otherwise when you jump in solo, you end up with lone wolves trying to solo 5 players at once. Breaks the fun.
Like every MP ever.
Not every… But many games, especially those which are very mainstream, suffer from it.
Yea. Pretty much lol.
Not only for Blizzard, it’s the largest beta ever. 😮
Battlefront had more players.
Battlefront had 9.5 million.
“In a neat infographic, the publisher had given the stats of “Star Wars Battlefront’ for the beta. The number of participants totaled to 9.5 million, with 1.6 billion minutes spent playing for the entirety of the beta.” OW kinda beat that lol, they had almost the same amount of players but the time difference shows that battlefront got boring as hell and OW kept getting played
Blizzard the only game dev that did fps multiplayer right. EA, Ubisoft, Turtlerock and Activison can suck it!
You’re forgetting Valve; Who still allows for true private servers.
valve is still the best sh there is, blizzard got worse with the years
It was simply so daaaaarn fun! IT’S HIIIIIGH NOON! *spock* *spack* *späck* -Tripple kill-
it’s surely a fun game to play with some friends, i really doubt it could be a real competitive game, also the beta had a decent amount of flaws, despite everything i wouldn’t pay more than 20 euro for such game.
ye idd
I watched this game turn Blizzard haters say “one more match”. It’s impressive what they have with this TF2-like shooter.
unfortunately it’s nothing like tf2, maybe few ideas, but really nothing more
It’s a lot like TF2, more than any other game I can think of, have whatever opinion you like but acknowledge the similarities. The cart push mode. The gunplay, Characters representing classes. Even the cosmetics all feel like they’re straight from TF2.
Surely it’s the game that is most tf2 alike, still pretty much nothing like it, i’ve played more than 5k hrs of tf2 in like 6 years, trust me i’d know. Honestly the characters (which i really don’t like besides mercy) remind me more of a moba instead, like smite for example, don’t get fooled by 1st person cam. Cosmetics are just sh*t just like tf2 ones, the one and only part i’ve never liked and that ruined the game.
Not even close to a moba, Battleborn is very moba inspired, OW is very tf2-like. Its a team based, objective FPS. Whats tf2? A team-based objective FPS. Even the characters in tf2 have “abilites” that go on cooldown like spys watch and snipers jiratte(prob spelled wrong). The only people that i see say that OW is nothing like tf2 are blind tf2 fanboys that dont want another game stepping on their territory that might actually be more fun considering the amount of choice you have in your play style with 21 characters to choose from that are very different in terms of strats used with/against them. tf2 has how many? 9? gets old fast
TF2 is more towards an arena fps, has less characters but each one more unique if compared to OW, which has 21. TF2 characters have no ability or cooldowns (and that’s one reasons why, TF2 is much more skill-based). The only people saying TF2 isn’t like OW is people who actually played much TF2 and they’re pretty much right, you on the other hand really sound like a blizzard fanboy, who as always understand nothing of competitive and gaming in general, also the fact is has less characters says nothing, and even having 9 characters TF is much harder and deeper than OW to play.
BS, Overwatch has the exact same game modes as TF2 and the same character types healers, tanks, engineers, snipers etc.
those game modes existed before, i agree about character types, but still they’re not the same, while in tf2, character types matter nothing, on ow they’re everything, and as i said, each one of a certain type can be used for the same exact thing, while in tf2 doesn’t matter if 2 characters are of the same type, they are completely different and used to do completely different things.
Pass into the open beta
now just waiting on release day
the division has 9.5m registered players what is the point of this?
Isn’t this game cost like a full priced AAA game?
na i herd $40
I love BLizzard and all of their games, but i just cant get into this one. I think its cuz i don’t know any of the characters or lore.. its all sooo random. It pushes me away..
p.s. I must be the only one that didn’t try the Beta, or didn’t care to. All of my friends wanted to play this SOOoooooo badly. I cant even start to care about it 😛 i must be crazy..
Once you play it a few times that will go away. It really is easy to get into, and the characters grow on you. I admit not knowing anything about it seemed like a wall of info to absorb for me too, but it’s simple to play so learning comes fast.
This is the only Blizzard game I’ve ever had any interest in. Not in playing it, but the art/character designs are off the hook.
Shut up lol, your last sentence is just as ridiculous as you are, you confirmed again to know nothing about what you’re talking about. Now please stop answering you’re making me feel almost as stupid as you’re answering to your non sense. Oh and ffs when you plan on talking about something learn about it first.
and?the division has 9.5m registered players and thats a $60 games compared to overwatches $40.its also an open free beta. when it launches we will see how big overwatch is.
before the trolls start it will still do good.
It’s Blizzard, it’ll sell like hotcakes. Probably break records everywhere, etc. etc. etc.
The real question is, how bad will the launch experience be, & how will people look at it in the coming months? Diablo 3 skyrocketed out the gate, 6 months later the Community had begun to accept that RMAH was a joke, & it had serious Gameplay issues, leading to the whole “v2.0” thing. Then once Blizzard decided to get lazy with balancing, it went back to having issues.
Hey you know nothing about TF2, nothing, MvM is fu*king aids, pub servers are fu*king aids too, you’ve seen nothing of the real TF2, the competitive side, is a totally different game than what you’ve seen despite the fact it’s never been known to public, and despite community pretty sh*t, especially at high levels. I never said TF2 IS an arena, i said it’s more towards an arena shooter, compared to OW, which has nothing of an arena. OW is not TF2 and not even close. deal with it, and again, before talking about something learn about it first, with this i’m really done talking to an ignorant arrogant kid like you.
I’ll refrain from stating “absolutely not a chance,” & go instead with “I highly doubt it.”
Diablo 3 did 3.5 million in the first 24 hours, & 6.3 million sales in its first week, all while being an even more expensive PC-exclusive Action RPG. Overwatch is an FPS that’s trying to compete with Call of Duty & Team Fortress 2 both, so I seriously doubt there is any way it won’t clear 10 million either in the first 24 hours, or by the end of the first week, at most.
That’s the point, a PC-exclusive Action RPG cleared 6.3 million in a week, a multi-platform CoD/TF2 FPS should be able to clear far more than that.
Division’s numbers are irrelevant, the hype is far greater with Overwatch than it ever was with The Downgradevision. Word of mouth will only help to augment interest, resulting in a day-week 1 sales boost, rather than a drop.
As much as I don’t actually like the damn thing, there’s no denying it’s going to sell like hotcakes. Blizzard games (unfortunately) always do.
you say the division numbers are irrelevant then so are these thiswas a free open beta.granted there is a drop on pc because of the cheating and hacking. but its still huge on consoles.
Well, 10 days & counting, so we’ll see soon enough.
indeed im sure all the wow fan boys will get it.overwatch is more of a game for teams a solo player wouldnt play it long if they do buy it.