thegamer(dot)com/overwatch-2-more-than-25-million-players-despite-issues/
From the article:
“Despite the numerous fires [Blizzard] has been trying to put out so far, the studio has revealed more than 25 million people played the game in its first ten days.”
“Turns out that’s more new players than old as also highlighted in the statement is the reveal that Overwatch 2’s peak player count is triple that of the original game.”
In b4 doomers mention, yes, long term all will depend on player retention.
The point here is that as far as new people trying the game that campaign has been wildly successful. Just having the F2P model put the game in way more people’s hands.
The game has also been the top 3 on twitch for the past couple weeks. That is a lot of people who at minimum are interested enough in the game to leave their pc on running video in the background for hours to get free cosmetics.
I think it’s safe to say at least right now Overwatch 2 is popping off. Even the most adament haters on here have to at least admit that as pure fact. Multiples more people are playing OW 2 right now than OW 1 when it launched.
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Yeah it’s becoming a very popular game
But still
It should be a separate game from OW1
I’m still holding out for a MacOS version
They should bring it to the cloud
Mobile, iOS and Android
Steam deck
Heck… bring it everywhere!
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I am really glad to see this. Lets hope they keep the momentum and address the problems a lot faster than in OW1.
Personally, I really want to see how events look like in OW2. Hopefully some cosmetics for F2P players to grind with the new event mode or so. Lets see.
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F2P game bandwagoning on the success of the original.
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I feel like its kind of obvious that the game will have more players at launch when the game was free. Although the games monetization is terrible. The gameplay isn’t bad its a lot more polished and smoother than overwatch one. Personally I also think going 5v5 is so much better than thee 6v6 it was originally. The only thing I would like to see is some way allowing people to get these skins for free if they want to grind for it. Weather it is through grinding loot boxes or maybe getting a small amount of currency every level up. I also think the game will die if some form of progression isn’t added soon. The battle pass simply doesn’t give enough of a reason to grind unless of course you like the skins. Other than that once you hit the max you have only ranked to grind.
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I just can’t understand hero locking behind stupid grind, that’s all.
The rest isn’t that bad IMO now
I wonder if its popular because they just made a 60 dollar game free 
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and Overwatch had over 60 million players from 2016 to 2021.
It’s absolutely no wonder OW2 started out with more players now than overwatch did back then. Many active and former Overwatch players have tried the game, so you’ve already got a certain base of players. Plus f2p vs 40-60 bucks. Many will have put the game aside by now.
Overwatch had only cracked 25 million in January 2017, almost 6 months after release, but in May 2018 it was 40 million and by May 2021 60 million.
These numbers are to be taken with caution as they only say that 25 million individuals have played the game, not for how long.
In Q2 2022, blizzard overall had just 27 mio MAU (monthly active users).
Information about active players per month is far more meaningful than the pure number of players, since the pure number of players includes everyone who has even started the game and says goodbye immediately after one match.
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Random boomer dad turns on the game once and uninstalls
Data analyst at Blizzard
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Ok, well every day for the past two weeks you got between 150-350k people on twitch watching OW 2 to at least get the free drops at all hours of the day.
Just wait until upcoming months when Blizzard keeps updating active users and revenue from the game.
You doomers will be twisting yourselves in knots trying to spin that data so you can go “hur! dead game!” 
“Let’s try it, it’s free” is no sign that it’s a huge success. A game becomes important if it is not thrown into oblivion after a month, if the user remains active and if it has a good flow of players and in-game purchases throughout the entire financial year. OW2 honestly did not propose anything innovative if not rework, and only destroyed the collectible end game for an extremely embarrassing battle pass in the prizes.
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Ok, we I’ll keeo making posts like this as OW 2 keeps taking off cause it’s entertaining to see doomers spin and not take the L.
Wait are we really bragging about player numbers for a new free game in the middle of a drop event? I get wanting your gold stars but be realistic here. The monetization alone chased a lot of people off already. Even I was being generous thinking that they’d maintain decent numbers till at least the holidays but the game is far too greedy and far too selective with its balance for a lot of people to stick around right now.
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Sure, can’t call something trash if you haven’t played it 
People have to at least try the game out for a while before they can say it’s not for them and deuce.
It was never a dead game but that 25 million figure is almost certainly embellished.
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The number of people trying the game is not proof of ongoing success or that they all loved it. What it does prove is that there’s substantial interest. Players who were disappointed and bounced off can still be brought back by subsequent seasons or PvE.
The worst thing that can happen to a game is indifference. That’s far worse than controversy.
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I mean sure, I’ve loaded up Candy Crush (that came preinstalled) on my phone.
I totally count as a player of candy crush.
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I don’t think this is worth mentioning at all…
I agree F2P is better, but I would assume player retention dops significantly after this season, especially when new characters are not free anymore
Also if the balance team performs as good as this season in the future…yeah IDK man
Its like WoW goes F2P but all their expansions are at v9.0 quality
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it was funny to see Blizzard getting really brazenly desperate. they’ve always been totally dishonest in everything they do with this jame (which was fine for me because i could use the totally automated report system to get people who pick widow banned), but lately they don’t even try to hide it.
has anyone been successfully sued for lying about subscriber (or better yet, player) counts? netflix paid the judge enough to win the big one that was brought against them.
it was really a step up from saying the meta, which the community has never been more united against since mercy meta, is in a good state. will be interesting to see what they come up with next
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