Whut, candy crush is from Activision? ._.
Edit: Ah yeah! made some search and they bought King in 2015!
Good to know
Which speaks more to a change in tastes. Not because of direct competion.
If I stopped liking burgers and started liking taco’s it is not because they are in direct competition. It is because one caters to my new tastes where as the other one catered to my old one.
Direct competition is two products who cater to the same tastes.
Overwatch and Apex are different tastes. Two products in DIFFERENT categories an genre’s. They are not in direct competition.
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Is it not competition still? Who cares if I wrote direct in the OP.
Does that make you really upset about me? I didn’t create this thread to start a huge argument with someone else.
In the end: You stopped liking burgers and you started liking tacos.
Burgers lost a client there, tacos gained one. They’re in competition.
It’s pretty basic here.
The burger company might want you back so they release this new burger that’s 100% vegan (I don’t know you, it’s an example) so you come back to them! But then the tacos company wants you back again so they send an assass- they make a new marketing campaign and give you free meals coupons!
They’re competing because they both want you as a client, and you’re very loyal so you’re abandoning the other one when go to the other.
Even if you’re not abandoning it, you might just visit the burger company once every month instead of everyday like you used to (Might wanna slow down on the junk food) so they’re not gaining nearly as much from you.
Edit: Listen, I removed direct from the OP as it seems like this is really upsetting you.
No, because in the end they would have lost a client either way because they would have stopped liking burgers. Taco bell is not the only place that provides taco’s. Taco bell would be competing with OTHER taco joints for the new taco lovers.
Burger king and all the other burger joints with it lost the customer not because of taco bell but because the person just stopped liking them in general.
Tastes change. They go from one market to another. Competition is fighting over a customer. If someone does not like a product type then NO ONE in that product type is competing for their business.
Marketing targets people who are INTERESTED in the product they sell. Not people who are NOT interested in what they sell.
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I’m gonna stop right here fella, this is going nowhere and I’m tired as heck.
We’ll never going to agree on anything it seems, even with small jokes in my post.
I really tried to find common ground but you just put away everything I say with the same argument (Always about food for some reasons when we’re talking about Overwatch and Apex).
I understand your marketing things, listen, my point is that money is not infinite in someone’s pockets. I told you I’ve stopped investing in Smite even though I still play it, because other genres have gotten my wallet’s attention.
Different games, even from different genres, share a common thing: money.
There’s no competition in the house of a billionnaire because they can buy everything.
When you’ve got a limited amount of cash to spend, you can’t buy it all.
This will be my final post on this thread.
This exhausted me and I really can’t continue without starting to become unfriendly.
The major flaw to your argument is that this applies to ALL luxury items. If you define competition for a customers money by the fact that they all want the money in everyones pockets then every luxury on the planet is competing.
Little did we know that piano lessons, beer, tickets to a movie, gijoe’s, shoes, and painting materials were all competition for Overwatch.
That is why your definition of competition for money is way to broad. If it is defined by “its a game” then every game is in direct competition with Overwatch. Which is flat out wrong. if it is defined by “they all want the finite amount of money we have.” then all the products regardless of being in the same category even loosely or in completely different ones are all in competition with each other.
Makes no sense.
I wish you a good one dude. I am not upset by anything you said. Just correcting what your perception of competition is.
At its peak Overwatch had 30 million concurrent users. If it gets down to PUBG level it’s dead.
Depends on what I’m feeling at the time but yes.
OP pretty much nailed it, apex is grabbing everyone’s attention. People say twitch views dont matter but thats what keeps people interested in OW, seeing their favorite streamers play, but seeing as how all of them are mostly playing apex its not a good sign. That and OW is in a content drought, its a really bad combo and people are switching games like a light switch flipping on and off. You cant really argue with it anymore.
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I’ve literally been playing the Dark Souls series instead of Overwatch for months. It doesn’t matter at all if it’s a totally different genre. If I’m not playing Overwatch because I am playing something else, that is competition for Overwatch.
Ultimately, attention is the currency we are dealing in here, because that’s what will determine where someone buys add-ons.
Atleast it’s not solitare 
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It doesn’t directly compete with OW in the sense that it does not offer the same things that people get from OW.
In the perspective of “it’s a game, so they compete”, then yes you’re correct, but it’s flawed.
The movie metaphor doesn’t work. All movies are technically in competition… they are all something to watch. But each movie has it’s own audience and things they want from it. Not everyone will watch the same thing.
I like John Wick, does that mean I’m going to go see the LEGO film? Hell no.
Apex more or less competes with Fornite. It is in it’s genre. I think it will lose. It’s new and a fad. We’ll see where it stands when the hype wears off.
OW is a sinking ship regardless. With nothing new to satisfy it’s playerbase, they will jump ship to any game that comes out as they release. They’ve been doing it already from Single-Player stories, MMO’s, and BR’s.
If I’m going to play any other game other than OW, it sure as heck isn’t going to be Apex LOL. The only competition Overwatch has is with Halo. Apex isn’t a game for me; I hate Battle Royale styled games.
Consider the following: Not everyone likes any Battle aroyale games.
No duh they are two different things. Overwatch was definitely a cash cow and was listed at 1.4 bn market value at its peak which was higher than WoW.
The difference is that OW isn’t printing money like it used to, which results in stock drops.
This will continue when their quarterly report comes out this week. There is no way their revenue is growing compared to what it was.
And yes OW is going to be in the exact same place as sc2 and hots. It is already happening. This game is failing to retain players and has been losing playerbase for some time.
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