The latest quarterly earning statement indicate that Blizzard has lost around 40% of their active players since last quarter.
Now, that’s across all games, not just OW.
But it does say that things aren’t looking great, as it’s likely that OW has lost players.
I think yes, most of the previous players were killed by widow
No, its not. No matter what some forum threads say… the sky is not falling. People just need to search for a hobby and stop panicking for no reason.
*Based on Activeplayer data that cannot be cited from a data source.
It’s an article as worthless as the data it uses.
The more expensive things are in the cash shop, and how bad a battle pass is the more dead the game is. Just saying.
The shop AND the battle pass are really bad (for F2P) too so.
This game is just getting along with some additional PvP content while the PvE is still in development. PvE will draw a buttload of new players, and some will bleed over into the PvP, hopefully a good amount.
As for queue times, in mountain America they’re fine, I can usually find a quickplay or competitive game within two minutes. Even in high ranked CTF I wasn’t having much trouble finding games, but I wasn’t playing at 2AM usually.
Maybe, but objectively speaking whatever metric you want to use I don’t think you can show “growth” in Ow 2 population.
Especially when the company bone headly dropped the ball losing all those customers in China that can’t even login to any of these games.
It definitely lost a huge ton of players since launch but now we’re at a point QP games are being cancelled cause of lack of backfills. This is a daily occurance.
it died long ago, when we lost overwatch 1
Blizz shareholder meeting reported record numbers for Overwatch like a week ago.
Game is doing fine even if people on this forum’s personal experiences of their vague recollections of their friends list activity says otherwise.
Like ‘people who used to play every day at launch only play once a week now’ most likely just means they were in high school before and are adults now.
In a realistic sense, no. But in a way, yes. The game has basically no interest or reputation. Its not even close to dying but it also doesnt drive any real discussion or interest in the game industry, which for a former game of the year is disappointing.
Only place it is considered dead is on this forum.
Objectively speaking using a source that is known for using uncited, inaccurate, and verifiably false data is worse than literally anything else.
The one that can be used is the XBL chart that uses a “most played” metric. Meaning the games are positioned in a way that relies on active players.
What those player numbers are is very much not available, but the metric is based on player population in some fashion. Using that chart, one can also compare multiplatform games on Steam Charts to gain a better understanding of where those numbers stack up, while it’s still not accurate, it’s better than anything APIO has.
One man’s trash is another man’s cause for celebration.
That being said, shutting down China’s OW population doesn’t really impact western (or even Asian) QOL all that much outside of China.
Because it has been dying for years.
Not all deaths are instant. Some are via 1000 cuts.
not that many f2p games available to push them out of the top 20 games (i can see D2) which is weird because its not a f2p.
not to mention, Big games that arent available on xbox like valorant, csgo, league of legends that could easily push them 3 spots down.
Again the point still stands you show me nothing indicating growth of a playerbase and I’m not talking about all their brands just Ow 2.
I don’t think the game is dying with a host of layoffs coming.
But the market of China has always had a big whale player base especially for blizzard games.
If I was an investor I would buy zero percent of what you are saying that this has no affect on their bottom line or future earnings.
At this point though I don’t know what you are arguing about?
I’m not arguing about Western market or QoL.
I’m saying Capcom, Riot, or whoever isn’t going to be over the moon and handing out bonuses as well as big dividends for losing an entire country market.
OW 2 isn’t dead. It’s not the other extreme either like a Fortnite or LoL.
If you want to die on a hill that their numbers are great, good for you. You can have that W.
I don’t agree, but that doesn’t matter to me.
I’ll wait for the Gamer Rant retraction since they can be sued since false info like that can hurt Activision stock prices.
But in any case if all 30 million players have stayed since launch (except only China)
I still don’t see this growth of new players in my games.
Maybe your getting all the fresh faces on your servers.
everyone i played with dropped the game after brig was added… none of them have played OW2
no. people have been saying it for years
all they did was swap out alot of the legacy players for new players who are more likely to spend because they don’t have skins yet. Neither would those new players be opposed to a battle pass. I believe they did take the likelihood of legacy players leaving into thought and still moved forward with their plans.