Feels like this happens a lot, a game seems pretty much unanimously hated in internet discussion then you look at the actual numbers and it's doing great. People try and rationalize it with "Yeah but everybody hates it" or more hilariously "It's not doing as well as it could have", and it's like, do you think the dev cares? They've already singlehandedly funded their next game with this supposedly hated game.
Its the same with Dead By daylight. Everyone who plays it hates it but still keeps playing. I quit both because of constant bullshit but I guess others just latch on.
People are spineless fricking losers.
I quit overwatch after playing it every single day as soon as it made me update to "2" and never looked back. Frick them and their shit company, and their fricking lies, and shit decisions.
There's no real competition with either. The closest game to Overwatch is APEX which is
>a BR
>has such insane aim assist 100% of players at the top level of the game are playing on controller
>respawn has been outright hostile to anyone who wants modes other than BR or turning off aim assist for competitive mode
Similarly with DBD which is a much worse made game, every other asymmetrical game can't even stay alive for 2 months because they're always doing some gimmick that makes no sense instead of just making DBD's core gameplay but done better and more optimized. I guess MOBAs and platform fighters (Smash Bros) are the same where the ones on top stay on top because there's no real direct competition.
The closest game to Overwatch is Team Fortress 2.
Not really and also I meant alive games obviously
ow and tf2 are completly different games
stop parroting this forced meme
>Closest game to overwatch is nothing like overwatch
Well shit
Closest game to Overwatch is actually Paladins.
Anon, people only liked the original OverWatch for the porn and Blizzard couldn't even get that right with OW2
wrong, the original overwatch was a great game up until the release of Ana as a dlc character. That was the point when they stopped understanding how to make good characters that aren't dogshit to balance and to fight against. After that they completely lost the plot and have since tried dozens of different ways to fix the game and not one of them has resulted in a better play experience
it was never a good game. chokepoint chokepoint chokepoint.
Name a good FPS that doesn't rely on chokepoints and I will give you a million dollars.
Who are you replying to?
The main issue with OW2's vocal negativity is that there was no way of expressing or providing a metric for that negativity on Battlenet, let alone its forums. I don't use the forums, but I know that the mods there are anal retentive and it would be likely that any criticism has to be sugarcoated and wrapped up in a nice bow. It was never a TORtanic, it was Blizzard reaping what they sow with pandering to esports and no means of hearing "you're fricking up the game" from the fanbase. It doesn't help that the OW2 crowd shares a circle for a Venn diagram with TF2, they just want a casual team shooter but can't seem to move on.
50 million active players? There's no way it's even ten percent of that
I doubt there are even 50 million battle.net accounts total.
50m players? i doubt it
>50m """active""" players
yeah this is bullshit
not even wow had that many
If this is "mmo population" have a nice day for even pretending these numbers are remotely accurate
WoW wasn't free.
Palworldbros... how do we respond to this...?
Even the most popular games on Steam roughly stay at 800k-1.2m
how in the frick would anyone believe that OW2 has 50 million CURRENT players?
They just counted how many morons bought their game
You're confusing Active with Concurrent.
Can't beat the stockholme syndrome market. Just look at how many people still play Destiny 2 or WoW.
The data is coming from Blizzards themselves and I don't trust them. 50M is probably the total players, not the active playerbase.
GTA online has more players than this crap
Isn't ot mostly played by literal huehue poorgays for free?
In the case of Overwatch many people are just way too invested in it to stop playing even though they dislike what the game became.
Yeah, sure it has
The game is trash bro
It’s free slop for goycattle
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>only 30 million people in the world
>somehow there are 50 million playing Overwatch 2
Anyone who believes Blizzard is moronic.
30 million people in the world?
There's like 8 billion.
Good job falling for the bait. Now turn 360 degrees and walk out of here.
It's the dopamine addicted zoomers. They are literally raised on skinner boxes.
It's almost like most people are morons who will buy anything. just look at yearly ips like sports games. people will pay full price for a game that barely changes just because the 3 turns into a 4.
It's why "vote with your wallet" is just a way to justify silencing criticism.
>English speaking people dislike it and don't play it
>Are grossly outnumbered by Chinks and Pajeets who play literally anywhere
>Devs see this as a success and don't change things for the better
That's why video games suck now
>look at the actual numbers and it's doing great
Show the actual numbers? Where do I see it?
>Blizzard
>Numbers, Mason
Just trust em, goyim.
They would get their asses sued off if they lied, I don't know why anyone thinks "They're just lying about the numbers" is a valid response instead of pure cope.
Sued by who? For what reason? You are under 18 aren't you?
Remember when disney got sued for lying to investors and then everyone forgot all about it
Probably because Disney said "Prove it" and he pussied out and dropped the lawsuit. People can sue you for anything, doesn't mean you're doing something wrong.
>They would get their asses sued off if they lied, I don't know why anyone thinks "They're just lying about the numbers" is a valid response instead of pure cope.
because these aren't official numbers from blizzard, they're from an employee on the marketing team who put them on his linkedin to pad his resume
>Feels like this happens a lot, a game seems pretty much unanimously hated in internet discussion then you look at the actual numbers and it's doing great. People try and rationalize it with "Yeah but everybody hates it" or more hilariously "It's not doing as well as it could have", and it's like, do you think the dev cares? They've already singlehandedly funded their next game with this supposedly hated game.
For record, that was 50m MAUs in the first month of overwatch 2 launching. That means 50 million people launched the game at least one time during launch month, I wouldn't be surprised if over half are gone by now
There's probably no more than 100k OW2 players and frankly thats extremely generous.
There are maybe 50m battle net accounts, and since OW2 is on them, they're OW2 players?
There have been over 250 million WoW accounts created since 2004. Now imagine how many battle net accounts are there
It's F2P, even Africans are playing it.
ow2 is not popular and is not making money
"active players" means all accounts that were registered to ow1 and anyone who has downloaded it or was on beta list or anything
Games hire psychologists to craft addicting loops. Susceptible people find addictive games they hate and play them for thousands of hours. Basically these games are both shit and morally reprehensible.
Is this a job I can sign up for? Being a gaming psychologist?
It's a thing, but you're more likely to get hired to help make gambling machines.
I know this is probably true but man, I cannot imagine playing a game I hate, let alone for 1000s of hours.
it's happening because it's a popular thing to hate on modern Blizzard games even though the games are good (not compared to what they used to be, but still good), the blizzard people use to like has been dead for like 20 years and people still can't get over it lmao
Blizzard is a testament to the power of brand recognition, their games are alright but the only reason they get so much attention is because Blizzard is such a household name. They don't do anything you can't get somewhere else.
they’re considering accounts that last touched Overwatch in 2015 as active players and they fricking know it
Refuse to play it ever since they introduced this abomination. Why the frick do they think we care about 'pansexuality' (something we don't even have a word for) just because we tolerate ladyboys?
Nobody actually cares about you
I don't care
>cared enough to reply
Because they are not pandering to you.
Tiktok girls love this guy and Ramattra.
>when the most important thing about you is what you do with your genitals
Only according to you and Dale John Wong
Then why is his introduction about his sexuality, first and foremost?
That random headline from a literal who with the source cropped out is not in the game Anonymous.
Don't care. I'm still pointing out something about our society in general these days. You can be autistic about it, if you want. Unless you want me to believe you're trolling.
At one point it probably did have tens of millions of players. Definitely not over 50 million right now with the queue times it has. That figure is from the resume of the old VP of global marketing, and people lie and exaggerate shit on resume's all the time. It was probably 50 million lifetime players, and he decided to change it to active to make it sounds more impressive.
50m means 50 male
Wouldn't this mean there are 100m active WoW players?
>Dude launched the game once to try it
>Hurr durr we have 50 gorillion players
You know the real number is most probably around 500k or similar, they just like to exaggerate their numbers with people who literally launched the game once and was done with it.
>posting a headline with no date and no source
OP is a homosexual who gargles cum
OW got brutally mogged by FRICKING POWERWASH SIMULATOR on PS
even the blizzdrone plebbit sub is coping
https://old.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/199stoc/overwatch_2_is_the_top_20_most_played_games_for/
it's because they appeal to coomers.
not even. when was the last time you saw porn of the game that was not made a few years ago?
I fricking told you all but you kept b***hing and moaning. "DEAD GAME!!!" Well no, nobody even reads steam reviews or this place they just go "ok moron" and then play the game. People like the game and it's way better than OW1 not that people were gaslighted into thinking that this is morally better than lootboxes (somehow).
looks like palworld is motivating all shit companies to just public fake data now
>active players
Kek, it's probably people who have logged into battlenet since installing it.
You realize this is peak total player count right? Also Overwatch 1 on release made 560$ million in it's first year. Overwatch 2 has made half that. Yikes
This news article is taken from a guy's resume on linkedin people are choosing to believe the numbers aren't even verifiable lol
Im so tired of these fake analytics and doublespeak. A f2p game was tried by 50m people, wow, who gives a shit. Now post actual daily player count
The fact that companies still use meaningless metrics like “active players” to indicate success and media still parrots these figures like they’re newsworthy stories is evidence of how stupid the average person actually is. “Active player” might as well be defined as an account that has logged into the game at least once in the past 36 months, in which case pretty much every popular online game in existence has tens, if not hundreds of millions of “active players”.
wait there's something off with this claim, I think they meant to say 50M people who tried it, not active as in "monthly players"
OW1 peaked at around 30M people actually playing the game in the same time frame; it was a literal genre defining game
>genre defining
no it was a shitty TF2 clone designed to sell porn
I can't believe anyone actually bought it
Ganker always forgets that console numbers for popular multi-platform games are significantly higher than steam charts. Not to mention the majority of pc players play on battle net. No doubt they botched giving the fan base a true campaign in the franchises second iteration, makes you wonder if that's what people want these days.
Probably not, I thought the PvE shit in OW1 was awful so when I heard they were making a game around that I thought "Oh no." I think they realized that nobody actually wanted it so that's why they canned it for OW2. The fact that OW2 still ended up sucking is independent of that.
Just look at Palworld, that game has no story and it still sold like hotcakes.
>50 million
What kind of crack are they smoking, holy shit.
Is this the game where they deleted the butt of one of the characters because the female body made transexuals mad?
I'm starting to understand how they believed the Morgan Stanley numbers
I've had sex with over 50 million 10/10 attractive women (biologically female) and you can't prove otherwise.
"Biological" means "living" you idiot. All humans are biological.
>Active players
Probably defined as a player that has opened bnet launcher at least once in the last year.
Who tf plays ow2 on steam lmao
Apparently, 14,000 people at this very moment, 24,000 for the 24hr peak and 75,000 for the all time peak. So more than you'd expect.
If the numbers are that good for Steam of all places I have no trouble believing OW2's BNET numbers are good.
>Steam of all places
As if it's not the go-to platform for PC gaming lmao
Overwatch doesn't even hit a million.
Not for Blizzdrones, they are numerous and they live in their little Blizzworld with Blizzard Launcher even after everything crashed and burned, I can attest to that, having played many of their games on and off in the past
I'm sure it's the truth, not like it mindbroke them when they put their game on Steam and players were actually able to review it for the first time and their community team wanted to "moderate" that but were also actively afraid of being confronted with negativity outside their bubble. Hell, this is still cope for that
>Well y-yes, there is a lot of visible negative criticism of the game now... but actually there are sooo many active players... so you see unlike before where it was good because the majority of the community truly for realsies loved the direction of the game it's actually good now because of this other metric you can't check... It's totally true this time, trust me bro
why are companies allowed to make such false statements? and why game """journos""" participate in such lies
>over 50 million active players
Manipulative title. WoW had over 100 million "active players". It depends on what you consider "active players".
If you want to know the reality, go look at investor meetings, i think they're public. If they lie there, there are legal repercussions. You will see that there they talk about MAUs, Monthly Active Users. If Overwatch2 has 50 million MAUs, then the article title written by that presstitute has merit.
I seriously doubt OW2 has 50 million players logging in every month, maybe overall, across all Activi$$ion-Blizzard games, yes. Only for OW2? Ridiculous. That means that Fortnite and LoL have hundreds of millions of active users.
Yea basically this
According to le wikipedia, Minecraft sold 300M copies, and GTA 5 sold 190M copies, being the most sold games of all time
On wikipedia, it even says OW1 sold 50M copies.
You are telling me that OW2 not only has at least as many than OW1, it even has a population of at least 50M active players?
Yea man frick it I may as well say im the king of brazil
Fortnite has an in-game player count, there's roughly a million players online at any given time. Meanwhile its active player count is 250 million across 30 days. And that's considered one of the most popular games ever. So yeah, "50 million active players" definitely doesn't mean "50 million players currently online." But considering how much less it is than the active players in Fortnite I could plausibly believe that 50 million players are logging in every month.
Woah, know I understand why blizzard doesnt even bother releasing their games on steam. Like... you already have 50 millions of players in your own client and consoles.
Total bullshit.
They don’t have that many players
And Blizzard drones aren’t human
Now thats fake.
there is 0 chance OW2 even has 50mllion unique people that opened the game once
they are probably unironically counting people like me that played OW1 beta for 5 hours and never touched it again
they added it to steam
"active players" is a meaningless vague metric that can mean anything.