Overwatch 2 Player Count Reaches 35 Million Players In The First Month

Yet twitter keeps claiming the game is dead...

Maybe I am just a total cheap skate; but if a game is free to play, I keep it free and don't spend a dime.

Anyways, glad to hear it's doing well.

That seems bit sus. Perhaps the director's crewmates are summoning their innersloth? I'd eject the idea. It seems impostirble, any overwatch 2 fans among us? I've heard that the lobbies are filled with people faking their tasks. I'm going to go back to electrical, don't vent @ me.

Real talk though, everytime I've seen overwatch 2 news there's a bunch of complaining, how many of these players are still active?

My only issue are the way you unlock hero’s and the prices, and removing qof features for no good reason. Other then that it’s fun!

...I thought we all were hating Blizzard...? Ugh, I can't keep up with you kids.

Yeh nah i doubt 35 mill are active

I have a few buddies at work who are all playing it for the first time since it's now f2p. I bought the original Overwatch on Switch after it released, but I only played it for like an hour. I can't be bothered to get on the bandwagon right now when there are just so many other games to play.

@GamingFan4Lyf The only time I would consider spending money in a free-to-play game is if there are cosmetics based on another franchise I really like. So far, I've only spent money on the Sonic costumes in Fall Guys. I wanted to get some of the others like the Monkey Ball, Cuphead, Shovel Knight, Astro, and Ratchet & Clank, but they weren't available in the store at the time. I haven't touched the game in several months now. I'd be curious to know whether having rotating items in the shop helps a game's sales by forcing people to make an impulse buy, or if it just hurts their sales like it did for me. Either way, it's a scummy practice to not just keep it there so we can buy it when we want.

Pretty impressive. It's nice never playing against bots with that many people. Still loving the game and after 40 hours, I'm FINALLY getting my aim settings finely tuned for my mains lol.

@Rika_Yoshitake You realize Twitter isn't exactly the smartest group of people, right? Hell, they've been saying "dead game" since the first week Fortnite launched.

@Xiovanni A dude with president Pooh Bear pfp claiming Blizzard is "phone phishing". Hahaha man that's funny. Dumb, yes, but also funny.

@Joeynator3000 Nah, it's just the very vocal minority who like to be against things solely to make themselves feel better/righteous. Most people have the brains to realize a few bad apples out of a MASSIVE company does not change anything in the big picture (people can't step back and see it anymore).

Really low for a game on release month.
Fortnite gets weekly 30 million players without massive content releases.

I'm curious if those numbers continue to stay up. I wonder how many are like me, who came back for the first week or so and played a little bit before dropping the game after realizing how egregiously terrible the battle pass and progression towards it was. "If you don't play this game OUR way and complete OUR objectives then you get no coins and much less EXP!"

@SteamEngenius

It’s taken 40 hours to get the desired level of control? Oh aye, sounds like a great game.

Doesn’t Overwatch 2 basically inherit all the original game’s players by wiping out the original game? Bit cheeky, that 35 million claim.

Whoever is paying $20 for one skin. Please, please, go outside.

Those numbers seem inflated. Likely a lot of duplicate accounts and bot accounts increasing those numbers.

I had been so pumped for OW2, been playing OW1 since launch, but now that OW2 is finally here I kinda don't care to even bother playing it at all...
Eventually I'll get to playing it I suppose

These stats are kind of meaningless when it's a free2play game that's relatively new. Willing to bet there's millions of people who downloaded the game, played it briefly, only to never return.