Blizzard Knocks It Out of the Park With 7M Global Players

SBFord

Blizzard Knocks It Out of the Park With 7M Global Players

Just over a week after release, Activision-Blizzard has announced that Overwatch has over seven million players taking part in FPS action around the world. In that single week, players have logged over one hundred nineteen million hours of gameplay action.

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JakeSim

Can't wait for more heroes or skins.

SBFord

I'm a believer and never thought I would find a game that took Unreal Tournament's place in my gaming life but Overwatch did it in a big way.

JakeSim

SBFord said:

I'm a believer and never thought I would find a game that took Unreal Tournament's place in my gaming life but Overwatch did it in a big way.

I mean it's good. But, it could certainly use more content..

cheyane

I never doubted for even a moment that this game will do very well. 

Deltois

Just what I thought, and the future looks awesome.

ElRenmazuo

blizzard is extremely successful with mediocre games, very polished mediocre games.

SBFord

Aori said:

I'm already at 48 hours played.. good grief. What is amazing, I had no idea I played that much. When the games are like 5-10 minutes, you're just like ok just one more game, every time. Playing Overwatch is like eating a bag of potato chips.

Did you read about the guy that played 13 hours / day and is already a level 100 just a week after release? O.o

That's just crazy!  

I have great hopes for what Blizzard will deliver in the future.

Ammon777_new

Good for them.

Ammon777_new

Now make World of Starcraft or World of Diablo.

Seelinnikoi

Meanwhile, Battleborn continues to haemorrhaging players losing around 65% of its player base in 2 weeks...

http://steamcharts.com/app/394230#All

People are already complaining of 20 minute queues for any match and when it does popup, they are against people either very low level or very high, averaging just 2,101 players.
An article from Kotaku:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/06/battleborn-on-pc-is-dying-and-not-slowly/

holdenhamlet

Well, so much for people's predictions the game wouldn't do well or score well on Metacritic.

92/100 from critics on metacritic.  7 million players * $40 (minimum) means at least 280 million bucks.

This is about how I thought it would go after playing it in Beta.  It's a good game, and it's got the Blizzard hype.

Piscore

This is Team Fortress 3 ? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

H0urg1ass

One thing I will say about 7M players, is that it sure as shit doesn't feel like 7M players.  I play for a good 4-6 hours every day since release and, no shit, I see the same names all damn night.

I see the same premade enemy teams all night, I see the same solo players all night, when me and my friends group up and queue up for matches we see the same people on their teams.  I see the same names so damn frequently, I fee like I'm on a Modern Warfare I server rather than a game with 7M players.

To put this into perspective, I can play World of Tanks for a week before I see someone from a game a week ago and be like "Oh yeah, that guy is damned accurate with artillery".  I can play Call of Duty for a week before I run into someone that I remember being shit hot.

In fact, it's to the point where I know about 20 names, and if I see them on the enemy team then I'm like "oh shit, we're in trouble".  If there are 7M players, I should see so many different people that wouldn't even remember them being good a week later.

MikePaladin

It's all because Blizzard has some of best Digital Butt modelers.

filmoret

holdenhamlet said:

Well, so much for people's predictions the game wouldn't do well or score well on Metacritic.

92/100 from critics on metacritic.  7 million players * $40 (minimum) means at least 280 million bucks.

This is about how I thought it would go after playing it in Beta.  It's a good game, and it's got the Blizzard hype.

It isn't scoring as well amongst the players.  PC giving it a 7.2  and Xbone is 5.8 with playstation at 6.3  I wonder what the deal is with console players.

I can't find the source of that 7 mil players, can anyone find it?

therdre

I'm not buying (I will be playing HOTS f2p though) anything else from blizzard until they finally make warcraft 4 and when that happens I will literally go to their office in Cali and throw money at them

holdenhamlet

filmoret said:

holdenhamlet said:

Well, so much for people's predictions the game wouldn't do well or score well on Metacritic.

92/100 from critics on metacritic.  7 million players * $40 (minimum) means at least 280 million bucks.

This is about how I thought it would go after playing it in Beta.  It's a good game, and it's got the Blizzard hype.

It isn't scoring as well amongst the players.  PC giving it a 7.2  and Xbone is 5.8 with playstation at 6.3  I wonder what the deal is with console players.

I can't find the source of that 7 mil players, can anyone find it?

User score is pretty hard to get high since so many users like to throw in 0-rating reviews.

Kyleran

Certainly validates their decision to scrap Titan.

MMORPGs are just so 2004.

Distopia

filmoret said:

holdenhamlet said:

Well, so much for people's predictions the game wouldn't do well or score well on Metacritic.

92/100 from critics on metacritic.  7 million players * $40 (minimum) means at least 280 million bucks.

This is about how I thought it would go after playing it in Beta.  It's a good game, and it's got the Blizzard hype.

It isn't scoring as well amongst the players.  PC giving it a 7.2  and Xbone is 5.8 with playstation at 6.3  I wonder what the deal is with console players.

I can't find the source of that 7 mil players, can anyone find it?

Less hardcore Blizzard fans among the console players? 

goboygo

ElRenmazuo said:

blizzard is extremely successful with mediocre games, very polished mediocre games.

With 7 million mediocre fans right?  But they are very polished mediocre fans, as opposed to those unpolished fans that play less popular games.

Machkeznho

can almost guarantee within 1 month only half will be left and after 6 months 1/10th of that the game gets stale fast.... and before you attack me i own all of blizzards games i am a huge fan boy for blizzard games, but the beta testing left me bored to tears after about a week game is just shallow and repetitive i got battleborn instead so happy i did too.

filmoret

Well since this article was written there has been IGN and Gamespot both putting up the same article.  And I still can't find where the information came from.  I think Businesswire had it first but IDK where they got the info. 

holdenhamlet

filmoret said:

Well since this article was written there has been IGN and Gamespot both putting up the same article.  And I still can't find where the information came from.  I think Businesswire had it first but IDK where they got the info. 

Don't know anything about the site but it's possible Blizzard leaked it to them specifically.

Distopia

filmoret said:

Well since this article was written there has been IGN and Gamespot both putting up the same article.  And I still can't find where the information came from.  I think Businesswire had it first but IDK where they got the info. 

Look deeper.. It's a blizzard press release..

http://blizzard.gamespress.com/overwatch#?tab=news

filmoret

Hmm IDK whats going on but businesswire copy and pasted this word for word from blizzard website

http://blizzard.gamespress.com/overwatch#?tab=news

I assume that is blizzard's website.