Google Trends exists for like this specific purpose, comparing the buzz and interest of different things.
I compared ‘Marvel Rivals’ to ‘Overwatch’, ‘Cyberpunk 2077’, ‘Stardew Valley’ and ‘Deathloop’ and, after it’s announcement day, it only beat Deathloop, a years old game with no DLC. Cyberpunk got it’s last content like 6 months ago and still had 5 times the interest every day.
I only know about Rivals because someone mentioned it here in the OW2 forum. I went and signed up for the alpha right after that.
Alpha btw. I highly doubt a lot of people even know this game is coming, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t already hype.
the trailer for marvel rivals and Venture both dropped in the same month, and the marvel rivals has 2.5 times the views and double the likes.
3rd person shooter, easy skip
ion know about that one, some of the best games to come out are 3rd person shooters Helldivers 2, the entirety of the Resident evil series, rachet and clank, splatoon
to each their own, but dont miss out just to hold some standard. theres alot of good ones
Some people just don’t like 3rd person anything. Always weird to me but I have friends that are like that - hard pass anything in 3rd person.
Marvels rivals game has a lot of overwatch vibes.
Fixed your title 
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My expectations for it are stupidly low. Any Marvel game that doesn’t have “Spider-Man” in the title is a pile of hot garbage 9 out of 10 times.
lol, no, that’s not what im saying, but if you watch the videos…i mean come on…it’s an obvious rip off of OW…and that’s fine…im not knocking them for it, i hope they do it better…im just pointing out the obvious similarities…
marvel vs Capcom is quite literally one of the greatest fighting game series of all time
Marvel Snap is the most played card game on Mobile devices
The Marvel Collab with fortnite literally skyrocketed Epic games’ stocks
what are you talking about.
TBF I am kinda looking forward to Marvel Rivals. BUT Netease, the infamous developer that is known for its notorious monetization is doing this so…
yall said this about Valorant and it is outpacing Overwatch it currently has 740,076 players online overwatch has 125,908
lets not cherry pick. there are examples of it going in the other direction.
Many players said Helldivers 2 wouldnt keep up.
shall i grab that player count as well?
Ya I am going to question your player for OW considering that it would require 1/6 of OW players to be using Steam which is a ludicrous suggestion. It would be shocking if more than 5% of OW players were using Steam, and that is ignoring the consoles.
However, lets focus on your main point. What I said about Valorant was 100% correct. I said from the first time I played it that it is just CS GO. I said it would be successful because Riot has a strong reputation but that its gameplay is not OW but CS GO and it is. Nobody pretends it is an OW clone anymore, they simply focus on how it is direct competition for CS GO.
Damn, Valorant is that famous? I thought that game is niche because the game is made for eSport scenes.
the playercount comes from an average of daily players from. More people like steam than Battlenet, and its a free game. I will say i looked at old data, currently its around 300k
Apex has 256,000 players another game you all said would die off and be left in OWs dust.
Overwatch isnt something that cant be beaten. Plenty of games have come and made huge waves and shaken.
With an ip as popular as Marvel taking the mantel all it takes is the right place and time.
It’s a cool looking map and the game looks like it could be fun (albeit current gameplay made it look a little clunky, but it is alpha so can’t really hit it for that). Lot’s of established characters means potentially lots of options and strategies. Worth at least a look i would say.
HOWEVER
I think the biggest concern with this game and it’s lifespan is gonna be the devs, NetEase…they don’t exactly have the best reputation…
Aye Diablo Immortal taught me a lesson that I will never forget.
I should have bought a highend PC instead.
I totally forgot they were responsible for that! Now a lot of hate makes more sense
The Marvel Rivals discord has 100k members and I see hype for it on Twitter. I think this game could take Overwatch’s throne IF it’s good.
I’m excited to play it. The map is a straight up overwatch ripoff but tbh I don’t mind if it’s fun.
I love Overwatch and I always wanted another game that was similar in playstyle, presentation, and polish.
As a massive comic book collector this just appeals to me. Overwatch but with some of my favorite characters of all time? YES
I suppose it’s the ripoff part I always roll my eyes at. If Rivals’ developers said, “We want it to look like Overwatch,” and then copied that, that’d be a ripoff. But I’m sure Overwatch was probably an inspiration for the setting of that map and the look of the game.
I think it skews more like a Valorant / Overwatch mix as far as design. Which I’m good with. Then again, it could be an almost direct ripoff of Overwatch and if it plays well, I’m there for it so maybe I’m not the best person to listen to on this. 
The play test starts next Friday. We’ll see how it goes. Hopefully it’s the competition blizzard needs.
More competition benefits all of us in the end.