A good comparison is to Paladins. The games probably have pretty similar player bases. As I’m writing this, according to steam charts, there are currently 8400 people playing paladins at 6:30PM EST on a Sunday. It’s safe to say OW has a higher player count than this. Given these games have similar player bases we can compare twitch viewership numbers and roughly approximate the Overwatch playercount. Over the last 30 days Overwatch has an average viewership of about 13,000. Paladins sits at about 1,400. If we use this roughly 9 times higher viewership for OW and apply it to player count then we can maybe assume OW has about 75,000 actively playing at the same time.
Flaws with this are maybe OW and Paladins twitch viewership won’t perfectly translate over to concurrent players. I don’t play paladins so maybe OW has a bigger twitch culture. However given how similar people say both games are to each other it’s fair to assume it’s somewhat consistent. I also don’t know how popular Paladins is in other regions so that might affect player numbers and their comparison as well.
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I would say Overwatch is more stale than dead. As a dead game is something like Anthem and Crucible.
Overwatch just doesn’t have anything that shakes up how the game is played. Of course, this is mostly due to the fault that is Overwatch 2.0.
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i was going to go with stasis…but stale works…the game itself is still fun…just unchanged for 4 years really
“overwatch is dead” is my favorite 5 year old meme
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OW is stale and has lost players. It’s not dead just yet. But it’s slowly getting there.
I think the only reason it hasn’t yet is because no other company is really interested in striking down the IP for dominion over the genre?
There’s not many objective-based hero shooters (at least not ones on PC and Consoles), so most AAA studios don’t see a reason for challenging a niche genre. Even Riot Games is preferring to go after MMOs, since that genre seems to be the next trend after the BR craze.
I think stale works better because it says the game has no content. I don’t like the term dead because it implies there’s barely anyone playing. If a game has tens of thousands of concurrent players then I don’t think it’s dead by any means.
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i mean i hate the term dead because it means nothing…the 5 year thing wasnt me joking…thats literally how long ive seen people using the label…its just a meme…
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Community is on life support is more like it but years though. But it’s kinda free falling at this rate
I love this post. Y’know why I love this post? Because it actually tries to give something of substance. Your methodology is not ideal, but it’s definitively way better than saying “It is dead”.
Ok no, nevermind, this is actually amazingly accurate. I found this site activeplayer . io / overwatch which gives estimates based on actual data. According to the site, there are around 75000 OW players logged right now. As a contrast, right now Paladins reports, from Steam, around 7500 players (Yes, that’s not a typo. Seventy five thousands vs seventy five hundred / seventy thousand five hundred).
So yeah, in my country they say on a world of blind the one-eyed is kind, so this post gets my praise. However short, this research is appreciated <3
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I think my post only applies to pc while this site claims this is for all platforms. For this I have no idea how I could do this. My assumption is there are less players on console but idk by how much? Also it looks like they use monthly users and try to work current player count from there but idk how to do that 
. I’m not super great at math
Not dead but on life support.
Anybody that says Overwatch is dead should try getting all the achievements for Guns of Icarus 
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