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[3liteDragon]

‘Overwatch 2’ Hit 35 Million Players In Its First Month

The sequel saw high engagement levels in its first month.

www.forbes.com

 

[adamsapple]

F2P doing its thang.

 

[iHaunter]

I played it, already stopped playing it. Will likely drop at least 30 million next month.

 

[feynoob]

It can hit 50m+ if they just drop it on steam.
Sometimes, Blizzard is just too stubborn.

 

[feynoob]

F2P doing it's thang.

The amount of money it would bring would be insane, if they keep 25+m monthly consistently.

That is like 10m people paying $10+ monthly on mtx. That is easily $100m+. Plus those skins, which cost $15 if you are buying the coins.

 

[01011001]

not sure if that's a lot. Halo had 200 20 million... and is now on life support

 

[jigglet]

Is this one of those slimey things where they twist the shit out of what constitutes a "player", eg # of people logged into their online profiles, ow1 players with an account that redeemed some skin but never actually played it, number of matches played etc

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

That's a shame

 

[ParaSeoul]

not sure if that's a lot. Halo had 200 million... and is now on life support

Seems reasonable,everyone I know is playing this. Halo was the first new Halo on PC in a while and it being f2p probably helped,once people knew what they were getting into they dropped it.

 

[Bernkastel]

Halo had 200 million

No game ever had 200 million. I am pretty sure they said 20 million.

 

[01011001]

No game ever had 200 million. I am pretty sure they said 20 million.

oh, was it 20? still tho

 

[Hendrick's]

It will drop off quickly like the first because it's the same game.

 

[kubricks]

The core of the game is still fun, but the battle pass system and its progression is awful.
I am no longer hype for ANY new hero or content because they will be locked behind huge BP grinding.

If they do not release good PvE content soon, which I am willing to pay money for, I am done with it.

 

[nikos]

Well deserved. Game is still a ton of fun and the changes are great so far.

 

[RPS37]

Ya know…a while back, I made a thread about how I thought Overwatch had to go F2P….

 

[jaysius]

The only thing that kept the OW1 alive was the constant addition of free new characters changing up the meta, the battlepass is such a souless grind.

They fucking created "souvenirs" as fucking filler for the battlepass, they're 100% worthless things that aren't even nicely displayed.

Even though loot boxes sucked, at least you had the fake chance to get something good.

Level 55 grind for the new character? NO thanks.

 

[Sp3eD]

Game is still insanely fun and balance wise in about the best place it's ever been. I'm not going to excuse the shit store prices for limited edition costumes, but Keep giving me massive content dumps for $10 every 9 weeks and I'll keep buying. Was going to pay $60 for this anyway.

 

[Ghost of Caelid]

I'm one of those players.

 

[Party McHardy]

I did the battle pass and haven't played it since. I find the BR format has more emergent gameplay than arena shooters, that's just me though. I wonder how many people dropped money considering longtime OW1 players likely had all the skins already.

 

[BJK]

The only thing that kept the OW1 alive was the constant addition of free new characters changing up the meta, the battlepass is such a souless grind.

They fucking created "souvenirs" as fucking filler for the battlepass, they're 100% worthless things that aren't even nicely displayed.

Even though loot boxes sucked, at least you had the fake chance to get something good.

Level 55 grind for the new character? NO thanks.

I don't love the battle pass, but with about a month left, I'm already up to level 105 from all the daily / weekly rewards.

If you wanna play OW2, then just play & don't panic over the f2p.