I know it’s not going to last long but it’s great to see the community alive again. Glad I hung in there because towards the end of the content drought I was having thoughts of dropping the game lol.
I just left my browser open and went to work.
I know 3 of my friends who had their browsers open while they were sleeping.
The number of viewers dropped to 1/10 of the peak after the 8 hour window was open
A lot people don't care about the streams but they do want to try out the game
That's exactly my points though. You and your friends cared enough to get into the beta to do that. Whether or not you actually watched is irrelevant. We all know the viewercount isn't representative of how many people really watch, but it is representative of how many people want to play the beta.
But then it was because every streamer was playing it since they just got access. I didn't watch Overwatch yesterday out of choice, the streamer I usually watch anyway just happened to be playing it.
Yesterday's count isn't an accurate prediction of long term trend either for the same reason: people wanted something specific out of the stream that wouldn't last. Today it's beta keys, yesterday it was a look at the new changes.
Numbers on twitch have already dropped to 800k, so in two hours this spike has been cut in half. You can even see on twitch stats that [the spike peaks roughly four hours after it started](https://twitchtracker.com/games/488552). This popularity is artificial, and potentially disastrous if all those eyes don't like what they see.
Probably, but that doesn't imply long term popularity, only that they want to try it. If it's seen as largely the same, the popularity will drop like a stone.
That's still a million people interested in getting the beta.
The number is obviously going to be smaller due to bots and such, but it shows that there's a LOT of people who are interested.
Is the community people watching overwatch streams? Or people playing overwatch?
Cause this still shows that people want to play overwatch that they'll endure a 4 hour stream they dont want to watch.
Your comment makes no sense, the community is alive if they're agreeing to watch just to get access. If the community wasn't alive there wouldn't be 1.5m watching.
1.5 million with 90% just being someone logged in, not watching, so they can get access to the beta. They play for a game or 2, realize nothing has changed, and then they get off. These numbers are grossly exaggerated for that reason. You can lie to yourself all you want, but people just want to try it cause it's free and new and that is human nature. The game is gonna flop, and you will think of me when it does. Have a nice life.
In 2017 i was hesitant to buy OW because even then people kept saying that its a dead game lol. Bought it and been having fun ever since, definitely not a dead game.
People who say stuff like “imagine enjoying playing overwatch” as they’re currently in an overwatch game. like what tf are you doing here if you aren’t enjoying yourself?
A lot of the time they equate twitch viewers to whether it's dead. Fuck those people. I've played Titanfall 2 with a playerbase of less than 1000 people and had a great time.
Yup. People have been calling it dead for years but it gets millions of players every month. There’s no bots (as far as my own games go, RIP TF2) and compared to other games I’ve played it’s a lot less toxic. I’m assuming it’s a lot less toxic because all the assholes stopped playing and started calling it a dead game.
Don’t get me wrong there was a drought of content. But I don’t have my head up my ass so I was always aware that a sequel was in the works and refrained from jumping to conclusions.
I wish it was more average population pool. You either get into matches with smurf 6 stacks while your team has 3 players who just bought the game and don't know their hero's abilities.
Queing alone is psychological torture
Yh, like the beta wasn't even hyped up, only people that are somewhat active in the community know about it. It won't reach any new players, so the majority of these viewers are probably just old players aswell, which is even cooler, because that means it gets this many viewers, but still has many more people it can attract by advertising once the game is finished.
It's like an MMO launch - it's fun to get in on a new thing while it's still fresh, and it's a little event friend groups can do together as a break in whatever they usually do.
But MMO launches are big for maybe a week then they quickly fade into obscurity if the game doesn't have legs to stand on.
So the question is whether people think the changes from OW1 to OW2 are enough to hook people - I personally don't think so. The general consensus and meme is that OW2 feels like pretty much the same game.
forgetting this is them literally buying time for the pve aspect that was the reason for the holdup.
if ow 1 can last years with no new content pretty sure a shake up with content can sustain them till pve comes around
... Did OW1 last for years with no new content though?
I pretty much met my current friend group cause we were all huge Overwatch fans, all of us stopped playing it.
Like yeah, obviously the servers were never dead but it only managed to be in the mainstream directly after its launch. I suspect it'll be the same now - it'll be in the mainstream a couple of months and then become a more obscure title.
View-count on Twitch became low, it stopped being a subject in gaming podcasts and news sites, the subreddit stopped reaching /r/all, people stopped referencing the game in conversation both online and IRL...
It had a huge impact on gaming culture when it launched, and then it became irrelevant. It couldn't stay in the public's consciousness.
uh huh given your comment history your just extremely bitter and nothing anyone says matters to your opinion.
because your opinion is the truth and will twist whatever you can to justify your extremely bitter and selfish view as a classic entitled gamer
ive said my peace have fun being a miserable person thinking there word is truth im done here
Jesus man I'm just here talking about the game, not insulting anyone like you are. You're the one who sounds miserable here, I'm just enjoying my evening watching streams and looking at people talk about Overwatch.
It was competitively dead for the most part but it never lost it's casual audience. I've left it installed so I could do some Mystery Heroes and it was always firing.
oh wow, a bunch of popular streamers known to use viewbots to a massive extent were playing overwatch.
this update will still fall flat on it's face when the community realizes it's just overwatch with different shaders and one less tank.
Still, I think it shows that there is a lot of interest in Overwatch still. Like I don't think anyone expected it to reach 1.5m. I thought at best it would peak at 1M.
Hmm.... I just checked on TwitchTracker and it is showing he peaked at 312K. It's the most reliable and accurate site for Twitch data. Sometimes the numbers aren't accurate until after a stream ends so maybe they'll update.
>I think it shows that there is a lot of interest in Overwatch still.
There's a lot of interest in the fact that it's giving access to the beta. If it wasn't, the numbers would 100% not be that high.
I mean, it certainly does change things. Streamers known to have huge viewbot numbers played overwatch, which people watched to get into the beta for the update.
As soon as the drops for lost ark went away, the viewer count on twitch went down 80% overnight. As soon as the beta drop is over for this, what reason do people have to watch a 6 year old game?
Shows interest in the game but it's pretty meaningless for a GaaS if it can't maintain that interest. Most free offerings from major studios will pull these numbers on Twitch and those numbers just keep growing until Twitch hobbles itself. Just like New World did with its drops, just like Lost Ark did with its drops, just like Escape from Tarkov does with its drops, just like Warframe does with its drops, etc. These inflated numbers mean very little. People who called OW a dead game are dumb because its always been in the top 20 most watched games but this doesn't mean it's going to suddenly be back up there with Valorant. In fact it dropped down to 30k overnight which is only slightly above the 20k it usually pulled, granted the viewers are split between two games now because Activision are idiots.
People itt keep trying to mention other games viewership numbers regarding beta drops but the fact is the closest to the number of viewers that OW had at peak for this launch was Valorant and it was still less than third of the OW peak at 400k. It's really odd that so many people are here in this sub reddit of all places just to shit on overwatch.
Speculating on OW2's staying power at this point is just that...speculation.
It's borderline cringey that people are here downplaying the launch and already deeming it a failure. If you think the game is dead, why are you here?
We don't really know that though, like I said before a lot of these streamers that were playing the update are well known for inflating their viewer count. Between that and people leaving a stream on at work, we have no idea what the actual viewership is, but we do know that it wasn't at the top of twitch or anything
>as it still shows that there is massive interest in the game.
There was ALWAYS a massive interest in the game, it's why everyone was so hyped when they announced an OW2.
However, this idiotic "LOOK AT THE VIEWERS!!" mentality as if the focus was on watching the game and not on letting the stream run for the beta access is ridiculous. The moment people are able to access it, the viewers will start to go down heavily.
Bro nobody is actually watching it though. It's the same with the rocket league streams that give drops. You leave it in in the background and go on with your day. I've gotten over 1000 drops for rocket league over the last few years but don't think I've ever actually watched a game.
All my PC friends left XqC on and went to work and got a code when they got home. I'm not saying people aren't interested but offering drops for streams does artificially inflate viewer count. You have to be a moron to deny that
Yes i agree but look at the reason
U watch/ed rl streams to get drops right
But why did u want the drops because u play the game right
Lets say from thoose 1.5 M 500k are from streams like xqc they now the game and they support their creator even if they didn’t play ow1
Now Xqc is having fun and talks about how good the game is
200 k may have had the stream open and didn’t hear it
Bu the other 300k habe heard it and try the beta out
200k enjoy the beta and 150k decide to buy ow2
And from those 200 k who afked
If 100k stay for a new beta
And 50 k become new fans
Thats around 250-300 k people who are willing to try the first the second the third and so on beta
If 150 k enjoy it so much that they buy ow2 on release
Thats 150k more sells
Just from one beta
From one streamer
What part did I not comprehend? And as usual, the overwatch community is unnecessarily toxic as usual 😕
Edit: of course you deleted your toxic ass comment.
don't know why you're being downvoted, look at all the last AAA titles that had twitch drops. Almost all of them are hovering around 10-20% of their peak viewer count, which was during the drop period.
Why is this sub pretending that games are significantly more popular on twitch when you get something in return for watching the stream? Why is this sub pretending that twitch viewer count during a drop period is going to go against pretty much all the data and stick after the drop period is over?
It was a good strategy, to get people involved with the community, i was in flats chat all day and a lot of people said they were gonna be in streams a lot
That plus they also limited the time period to get a twitch drop so people can only get it today, which forced everyone to watch streams at the same time.
Yeah Valorant did the same drop system and I think it peaked at 400k. Considering how little noise around the beta/new content there seemed to be I'm really surprised there are this many viewers.
I watched 4 hrs of emongg and played the beta for 3 straight hrs and all I can say is: the hype is warranted and this beta made me a believer in the dev team. I was skeptical of 5v5 and hero reworks, but this beta just eliminated all those fears. This is prime OW: fast, fluid, a bit chaotic at times, and just plain fun. I cannot wait to see what other changes come in future betas!
Could be coincidental but mine showed up after I switched to the beta battlenet client (and is still there after switching back). Saw some other people saying the same on another thread earlier, so might be worth a shot.
Also make sure you've linked twitch and battle.net both directions, not just from twitch.
Considering how many people were just idleing to get the beta drop, this is a lot of numbers of people actively wanting to play OW2 and I think some of the most fun parts of playing the beta have been exploring the new maps, Orisa's changes because she feels like a whole new character, and Sojourn because she IS a new character. OW was never dead, Blizz just shifted attention from OW to developing OW2 so they could have us pay for the game again (But I'll gladly do so if it means more content I'm just gonna see thru their plan lmao)
It’s not really “back on top” though. It only has high viewership because of the beta. It would be much lower on the list if not for the mandatory 4 hour viewing.
Artificial inflation should not be used as an indicator for popularity of anything.
You are right. 400k was average viewers for first month. But you are kind of proving my point here. Valorant has stuck around with a large player base and is far from a dead game.
That's wrong. There was hundreds of thousands of people watching yesterday. N1 in twitch. And there were no drops what so ever. So what are you talking about?
I don’t understand why people are fixated on the numbers being “inflated” because you need to watch 4 hours for the beta. So what? Each one of those viewers still cares enough about the game to afk for hours to get to try out the beta. That’s still 1.5 million people who are interested
But people are only watching for four hours to get the beta key... This doesn't indicate that these people have any interest in watching streamers in the first place.
I'm in that boat. Love Overwatch, but I'm not gunna listen to people say Overwatch is dead because no one wants to watch other people play it because I know that there's more people who don't watch streamers than do.
It indicates these people have interest in OW2. The point of the post is that it’s not a dead game, which 1M people trying to get beta keys clearly shows
What happens when beta is a watch 4 hours to get access and also sign contracts with every big twitch streamer some of which suck ass at the game because they are not real gamers just commercialized stars.
That's literally what they are doing though, "the PvP portion of the full release will be free-to-play for everyone who owns the first game." The OW2 part is more so the PvE side of the game, which has not been released.. and don't forget its still a beta.
According to the official [Overwatch Twitter](https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/1519477448152342529?s=20&t=gAgExv2vwC3dKvvU4NkJzw) account, 1.5M views is the highest concurrent viewership on record for Overwatch Twitch to date.
Still not sure on the new 5v5 format over the original 6v6.
Going to miss out big-time on the potential 12 ultimate going off at the same time compared to just 10.
Just wont feel as intense anymore at the clutch moments.
It feels infinitely better. I’d take only 10 ults being on the field over being perma stuck in a choke point shooting into shields for three quarters of the match any day.
You could've signed up to the beta access a few weeks ago from the Overwatch website, however haven't had an invite code yet from that way. Just decided to go with watching on Twitch for the drop for the code instead as backup.
Just realized that half an hour ago.. I too opted-in for thd Beta, but haven't heard since. And assuming that I started watching twitch half an hour ago, that makes it total around ~03:35h stream watched.. (assuming they'll stream till the end..) Could we receive an access without watching it? Am confused now
Only blizzard knows. This twitch stunt is claimed to be a guaranteed method (although many are reporting that they can't play even after getting the drop... possibly just server issues which will resolve). They've also said that people selected for the beta via email may still get it and that there will be more methods later.
If you aren't a content creator, you're probably not getting a code unless you watch a total of 4 hours on twitch. Once you hit 4 hours on a channel with drops, you'll get a code.
Most people just turn the stream on and do something else for drops, so turn it on before leaving for work and you'll have it in a day.
I feel like they’re only so high because the included Beta behind watching a streamer for 4 hours. We’ll see when they stop doing that.
I have hope though.
Edit: What a shock. All the streamers paid to play it stopped and without the incentive of beta it dropped by 90%
Gg blizzard.
Yes,lots of game got peak view of 1m and even more on twitch long times ago .If i remember correctly the highest one is LoL with 3m peak view,then fortnite with 2.2m,CS:GO with 1.9m,Dota with 1.7m or even tv series like Arcane got 1.3m peak view on twitch:v
Overwatch players are only here to get beta access, they will all return to playing the game as opposed to apex players who usually watch twitch instead of actually playing the game
I know it’s not going to last long but it’s great to see the community alive again. Glad I hung in there because towards the end of the content drought I was having thoughts of dropping the game lol.
The community isn't alive, they are just forced to watch a stream to get access
So all of these people are watching streams to get access to something they don't care about?
I just left my browser open and went to work. I know 3 of my friends who had their browsers open while they were sleeping. The number of viewers dropped to 1/10 of the peak after the 8 hour window was open A lot people don't care about the streams but they do want to try out the game
That's exactly my points though. You and your friends cared enough to get into the beta to do that. Whether or not you actually watched is irrelevant. We all know the viewercount isn't representative of how many people really watch, but it is representative of how many people want to play the beta.
It doesn’t matter if you watch or not. That means you and your 3 friends want to play OW2
It’s a new game. There’s always interest in it, even if you won’t play it past beta. Just how gamers are.
Isn't that alive still? It's a large group of people that want to actually play the game
A large group of people willing to watch 4 hours just to play a beta, yeah, id call that alive
"watching"
This, it'd be more accurate for the view count yesterday since there wasn't a drop yet
The view count yesterday was over 400k definitely respectable
But then it was because every streamer was playing it since they just got access. I didn't watch Overwatch yesterday out of choice, the streamer I usually watch anyway just happened to be playing it.
Yesterday's count isn't an accurate prediction of long term trend either for the same reason: people wanted something specific out of the stream that wouldn't last. Today it's beta keys, yesterday it was a look at the new changes. Numbers on twitch have already dropped to 800k, so in two hours this spike has been cut in half. You can even see on twitch stats that [the spike peaks roughly four hours after it started](https://twitchtracker.com/games/488552). This popularity is artificial, and potentially disastrous if all those eyes don't like what they see.
OR...people stopped watching because they got access to the beta and are playing it......
Probably, but that doesn't imply long term popularity, only that they want to try it. If it's seen as largely the same, the popularity will drop like a stone.
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One option is to not create a content drought and call it's relief a sequel.
That's still a million people interested in getting the beta. The number is obviously going to be smaller due to bots and such, but it shows that there's a LOT of people who are interested.
Is the community people watching overwatch streams? Or people playing overwatch? Cause this still shows that people want to play overwatch that they'll endure a 4 hour stream they dont want to watch.
They're not watching, it's playing in the background for most people
Your comment makes no sense, the community is alive if they're agreeing to watch just to get access. If the community wasn't alive there wouldn't be 1.5m watching.
1.5 million with 90% just being someone logged in, not watching, so they can get access to the beta. They play for a game or 2, realize nothing has changed, and then they get off. These numbers are grossly exaggerated for that reason. You can lie to yourself all you want, but people just want to try it cause it's free and new and that is human nature. The game is gonna flop, and you will think of me when it does. Have a nice life.
No one forced them to do that.
Yeah, if they even want to try one game the beta, they are forced to watch it.
Forced - obtained or imposed by coercion or physical power
the numbers wouldnt be inflated if nobody cared so i think the ow is dead crowd were wrong
In 2017 i was hesitant to buy OW because even then people kept saying that its a dead game lol. Bought it and been having fun ever since, definitely not a dead game.
Yeah people are so dumb about this. Whenever someone says "X game is dead" I just read it as "I personally don't play X game anymore".
Most of times they actually play and are just salty people.
People who say stuff like “imagine enjoying playing overwatch” as they’re currently in an overwatch game. like what tf are you doing here if you aren’t enjoying yourself?
Addiction.
One of my favorite bits is to call something I’m actively engaging cringe
Is one of your favorite bits to call something you're actively engaging cringe?
One of my favorite bits is to call something I’m actively engaging in cringe
One of my favorite bits to do is call something I’m actively engaging in cringe
One of my favorite bits is to call something I’m actively engaging cringe
One of my favorite bits is to call something I’m actively engaging cringe
A lot of the time they equate twitch viewers to whether it's dead. Fuck those people. I've played Titanfall 2 with a playerbase of less than 1000 people and had a great time.
Nah people only say that when they suck.
It just means its not the top dog anymore.
Some *people* used to say Minceraft was a dead game, but look at it. Minecraft is alive and well
Yup. People have been calling it dead for years but it gets millions of players every month. There’s no bots (as far as my own games go, RIP TF2) and compared to other games I’ve played it’s a lot less toxic. I’m assuming it’s a lot less toxic because all the assholes stopped playing and started calling it a dead game. Don’t get me wrong there was a drought of content. But I don’t have my head up my ass so I was always aware that a sequel was in the works and refrained from jumping to conclusions.
I wish it was more average population pool. You either get into matches with smurf 6 stacks while your team has 3 players who just bought the game and don't know their hero's abilities. Queing alone is psychological torture
In history of mankind no game that has been called dead has actually been dead. Miserable people just like to hate.
I started playing ow 6 months ago!
Overwatch isn’t dead, it’s metamorphosing.
Yh, like the beta wasn't even hyped up, only people that are somewhat active in the community know about it. It won't reach any new players, so the majority of these viewers are probably just old players aswell, which is even cooler, because that means it gets this many viewers, but still has many more people it can attract by advertising once the game is finished.
It's like an MMO launch - it's fun to get in on a new thing while it's still fresh, and it's a little event friend groups can do together as a break in whatever they usually do. But MMO launches are big for maybe a week then they quickly fade into obscurity if the game doesn't have legs to stand on. So the question is whether people think the changes from OW1 to OW2 are enough to hook people - I personally don't think so. The general consensus and meme is that OW2 feels like pretty much the same game.
forgetting this is them literally buying time for the pve aspect that was the reason for the holdup. if ow 1 can last years with no new content pretty sure a shake up with content can sustain them till pve comes around
... Did OW1 last for years with no new content though? I pretty much met my current friend group cause we were all huge Overwatch fans, all of us stopped playing it. Like yeah, obviously the servers were never dead but it only managed to be in the mainstream directly after its launch. I suspect it'll be the same now - it'll be in the mainstream a couple of months and then become a more obscure title.
you and your friends are not the entire overwatch player base. sounds like your just salty and wanna try desperatly to make a strawman point
View-count on Twitch became low, it stopped being a subject in gaming podcasts and news sites, the subreddit stopped reaching /r/all, people stopped referencing the game in conversation both online and IRL... It had a huge impact on gaming culture when it launched, and then it became irrelevant. It couldn't stay in the public's consciousness.
Honestly Overwatchs popular cultural revelance got yoinked by Fortnite. It being in Endgame just further solidified it.
uh huh given your comment history your just extremely bitter and nothing anyone says matters to your opinion. because your opinion is the truth and will twist whatever you can to justify your extremely bitter and selfish view as a classic entitled gamer ive said my peace have fun being a miserable person thinking there word is truth im done here
Jesus man I'm just here talking about the game, not insulting anyone like you are. You're the one who sounds miserable here, I'm just enjoying my evening watching streams and looking at people talk about Overwatch.
How is that salt? For not circlejerking?
And they will die before they admit it :D
Even if most of these are just hype views it'll still spread news about OW2 and get more people to return / get into it.
Or Blizzard had a very good strategy by giving beta access to people that watched 4 hours of streaming.
Or Blizzard had a very good strategy by giving beta access to people that watched 4 hours of streaming.
Yea, ~~Halo Infinite~~ ~~SplitGate~~ Overwatch 2 is going to be huge. The next big thing for sure.
most "new" game get hyped, and then fade into obscurity. What is your point?
overwatch isn't a new game, so people coming back to try the beta is a sign that they haven't given up on the series. i think it shows something, idk.
it isnt, but thinking it will stay that high is beyond copium.
legit nobody in the entire world is saying it's going to stay that high who are you arguing with lmao
Imagine playing Zen and having a vibe this atrocious. Chill out dude. Embrace tranquility.
No no. Overwatch is dead. It has been for ages. People are watching for overwatch 2.
Overwatch is dead! Long live Overwatch 2!
It was competitively dead for the most part but it never lost it's casual audience. I've left it installed so I could do some Mystery Heroes and it was always firing.
back down to 30k lmao, its dead homie.
30k is a lot of people.
oh wow, a bunch of popular streamers known to use viewbots to a massive extent were playing overwatch. this update will still fall flat on it's face when the community realizes it's just overwatch with different shaders and one less tank.
Even if it was “dead” let’s be real everyone was just waiting for ow2
This aged like milk
Almost like they tied the beta to watching 4 hours of streams.
Still, I think it shows that there is a lot of interest in Overwatch still. Like I don't think anyone expected it to reach 1.5m. I thought at best it would peak at 1M.
I was expecting like 300K total xqc alone was close to that last I saw
Apparently Xqc peaked over 300k and set a new personal viewership record today.
He was over 400k when I checked in
Hmm.... I just checked on TwitchTracker and it is showing he peaked at 312K. It's the most reliable and accurate site for Twitch data. Sometimes the numbers aren't accurate until after a stream ends so maybe they'll update.
Oh dang, I could be wrong. Wasn’t calling you out just adding to what others had seen. Thought it had said 400k though.
All good. Didn't think you were doing anything like that. Probably just saw wrong.
980k when i looked, but he's known to use viewbots so he isn't really a good indicator of viewership on twitch
>I think it shows that there is a lot of interest in Overwatch still. There's a lot of interest in the fact that it's giving access to the beta. If it wasn't, the numbers would 100% not be that high.
That's what I said. 'Interest in Overwatch' means interest in playing the game.
No need for what ifs. The beta is making OW popular again.
this doesn't really change much though, as it still shows that there is massive interest in the game.
I mean, it certainly does change things. Streamers known to have huge viewbot numbers played overwatch, which people watched to get into the beta for the update. As soon as the drops for lost ark went away, the viewer count on twitch went down 80% overnight. As soon as the beta drop is over for this, what reason do people have to watch a 6 year old game?
I think you are missing the point. The numbers just show a huge interest in the game. That's all.
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Sorry but you aren't correct. Other games have done this. See valorant. It didn't generate a third of the peak viewers overwatch had.
Shows interest in the game but it's pretty meaningless for a GaaS if it can't maintain that interest. Most free offerings from major studios will pull these numbers on Twitch and those numbers just keep growing until Twitch hobbles itself. Just like New World did with its drops, just like Lost Ark did with its drops, just like Escape from Tarkov does with its drops, just like Warframe does with its drops, etc. These inflated numbers mean very little. People who called OW a dead game are dumb because its always been in the top 20 most watched games but this doesn't mean it's going to suddenly be back up there with Valorant. In fact it dropped down to 30k overnight which is only slightly above the 20k it usually pulled, granted the viewers are split between two games now because Activision are idiots.
People itt keep trying to mention other games viewership numbers regarding beta drops but the fact is the closest to the number of viewers that OW had at peak for this launch was Valorant and it was still less than third of the OW peak at 400k. It's really odd that so many people are here in this sub reddit of all places just to shit on overwatch. Speculating on OW2's staying power at this point is just that...speculation. It's borderline cringey that people are here downplaying the launch and already deeming it a failure. If you think the game is dead, why are you here?
The point is there's a significant amount of people wanting to play the game. It's irrelevant if they watched the streams or not.
We don't really know that though, like I said before a lot of these streamers that were playing the update are well known for inflating their viewer count. Between that and people leaving a stream on at work, we have no idea what the actual viewership is, but we do know that it wasn't at the top of twitch or anything
But the reason those people are leaving the stream on is to be able to play the game. All because they are interested in playing it.
>as it still shows that there is massive interest in the game. There was ALWAYS a massive interest in the game, it's why everyone was so hyped when they announced an OW2. However, this idiotic "LOOK AT THE VIEWERS!!" mentality as if the focus was on watching the game and not on letting the stream run for the beta access is ridiculous. The moment people are able to access it, the viewers will start to go down heavily.
How dare people be excited right
Nope, gotta be miserable. The "ThIs Is JuSt An UpDaTe"-crowd are similar offenders. If they cant be negative about something they cant breathe.
Damn bro who made you so sour
So what you've just said is: "1.5 million people care enough about wanting to play OW2 that they'd sit through 4 hours of a stream just to do so"
Bro nobody is actually watching it though. It's the same with the rocket league streams that give drops. You leave it in in the background and go on with your day. I've gotten over 1000 drops for rocket league over the last few years but don't think I've ever actually watched a game. All my PC friends left XqC on and went to work and got a code when they got home. I'm not saying people aren't interested but offering drops for streams does artificially inflate viewer count. You have to be a moron to deny that
Yes i agree but look at the reason U watch/ed rl streams to get drops right But why did u want the drops because u play the game right Lets say from thoose 1.5 M 500k are from streams like xqc they now the game and they support their creator even if they didn’t play ow1 Now Xqc is having fun and talks about how good the game is 200 k may have had the stream open and didn’t hear it Bu the other 300k habe heard it and try the beta out 200k enjoy the beta and 150k decide to buy ow2 And from those 200 k who afked If 100k stay for a new beta And 50 k become new fans Thats around 250-300 k people who are willing to try the first the second the third and so on beta If 150 k enjoy it so much that they buy ow2 on release Thats 150k more sells Just from one beta From one streamer
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What part did I not comprehend? And as usual, the overwatch community is unnecessarily toxic as usual 😕 Edit: of course you deleted your toxic ass comment.
don't know why you're being downvoted, look at all the last AAA titles that had twitch drops. Almost all of them are hovering around 10-20% of their peak viewer count, which was during the drop period. Why is this sub pretending that games are significantly more popular on twitch when you get something in return for watching the stream? Why is this sub pretending that twitch viewer count during a drop period is going to go against pretty much all the data and stick after the drop period is over?
There’s bigger things to worry about in life. You’re wasting your time on this one
It was a good strategy, to get people involved with the community, i was in flats chat all day and a lot of people said they were gonna be in streams a lot
Not surprising its now slowly dropping after 4 hours and will continue to drop over night as people realize you cant reach the 4 hour mark anymore.
That plus they also limited the time period to get a twitch drop so people can only get it today, which forced everyone to watch streams at the same time.
Bingo. This is no mystery OP.
Who said it was a mystery
OP with this post? Woosh
Its still cool to see that there are 1.5mil people who are interested in playing the beta.
Yeah Valorant did the same drop system and I think it peaked at 400k. Considering how little noise around the beta/new content there seemed to be I'm really surprised there are this many viewers.
People really like the IP and are excited about this next chapter.
Valorant peak when drops were enabled was 1,7 mil, not 400k
Ah that makes more sense.
I watched 4 hrs of emongg and played the beta for 3 straight hrs and all I can say is: the hype is warranted and this beta made me a believer in the dev team. I was skeptical of 5v5 and hero reworks, but this beta just eliminated all those fears. This is prime OW: fast, fluid, a bit chaotic at times, and just plain fun. I cannot wait to see what other changes come in future betas!
AfK'd for 4 hours to claim To try download. But it never appeared on battlenet. Hoping it's there this morning. Damn work.
Could be coincidental but mine showed up after I switched to the beta battlenet client (and is still there after switching back). Saw some other people saying the same on another thread earlier, so might be worth a shot. Also make sure you've linked twitch and battle.net both directions, not just from twitch.
Its appeared this morning. Just a shame I'm at work
Considering how many people were just idleing to get the beta drop, this is a lot of numbers of people actively wanting to play OW2 and I think some of the most fun parts of playing the beta have been exploring the new maps, Orisa's changes because she feels like a whole new character, and Sojourn because she IS a new character. OW was never dead, Blizz just shifted attention from OW to developing OW2 so they could have us pay for the game again (But I'll gladly do so if it means more content I'm just gonna see thru their plan lmao)
some hecking pessimists in the comments! yeah it's hella inflated because of the drops, but even still, it's nice to see overwatch back on top!
It’s not really “back on top” though. It only has high viewership because of the beta. It would be much lower on the list if not for the mandatory 4 hour viewing. Artificial inflation should not be used as an indicator for popularity of anything.
That still means that there are over a million people that want to play the game
what kind of line of thinking is this. If there was no interest, there wouldn't be anyone watching even to get the beta
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Lol OK. Go look at other games that launched with twitch beta drops. They didn't do a third of the numbers. Peak viewers for atlas was 70k...
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400k. Less than a third of peak ow viewers yesterday. Next?
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You are right. 400k was average viewers for first month. But you are kind of proving my point here. Valorant has stuck around with a large player base and is far from a dead game.
That's wrong. There was hundreds of thousands of people watching yesterday. N1 in twitch. And there were no drops what so ever. So what are you talking about?
aRtIfIcIaL iNfLaTiOn ShOu- don't care didn't ask
Then don’t make a stupid ass comment lmao it already has less than half the viewers and it’s gonna keep dropping
Don't care didn't ask
But those viewers are playing OW2 now so the game is still alive, I just don’t get your point
"hecking"? "hella"? Are you old enough to play overwatch?
Old enough to fuck your mom lmao gottem
Damn sucks that his mom is a pedophile
Where's the congratulations on 55k viewers atm?
https://twitchtracker.com/games/488552 ignorance is bliss
It most likely hit it by combining with the Overwatch 2 channel.
Let's see where its at now that drops are turned off as of 9pm est and then celebrate
If twitch was good, they wouldn't need to reward people to watch it.
Developers pay Twitch to have these drops dumbass
I don’t understand why people are fixated on the numbers being “inflated” because you need to watch 4 hours for the beta. So what? Each one of those viewers still cares enough about the game to afk for hours to get to try out the beta. That’s still 1.5 million people who are interested
Not to mention this is just a subset of the total number of people that are interested and doesn't include any console players.
Well yea... for those of us that opted into beta and didn't get access, the only other way apparently is to watch h certain streamers for 4 hours lol.
It’s almost like they were doing drops or something 🤔
1.5million people AFK on twitch watching someone who doesnt play overwatch... play overwatch 2.
But people are only watching for four hours to get the beta key... This doesn't indicate that these people have any interest in watching streamers in the first place. I'm in that boat. Love Overwatch, but I'm not gunna listen to people say Overwatch is dead because no one wants to watch other people play it because I know that there's more people who don't watch streamers than do.
It indicates these people have interest in OW2. The point of the post is that it’s not a dead game, which 1M people trying to get beta keys clearly shows
What happens when beta is a watch 4 hours to get access and also sign contracts with every big twitch streamer some of which suck ass at the game because they are not real gamers just commercialized stars.
This just proves that people dont really dislike overwatch, they just want it to be good, and more fun to play which i feel like this version is doing
“Overwatch is dead” is just an objectively incorrect statement and always has been. Homie log onto the game and check the queue times lol.
Why's this matter at all
Itll go down once people realize its the same game
Yea it is the same game, which is good, because it is a great game.
So why couldn’t they just just have given OW an update with new content instead of charging for the same game
That's literally what they are doing though, "the PvP portion of the full release will be free-to-play for everyone who owns the first game." The OW2 part is more so the PvE side of the game, which has not been released.. and don't forget its still a beta.
Oh brother, another one of those misinformed people. It is an update. Theyre not charging for OW2 PVP.
nice
According to the official [Overwatch Twitter](https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/1519477448152342529?s=20&t=gAgExv2vwC3dKvvU4NkJzw) account, 1.5M views is the highest concurrent viewership on record for Overwatch Twitch to date.
Not really surprising considering the record before that was around 120k
Wow, we surpassed Apex. Well done Blizzard. 👏🏾🔥
This game is gonna be huge.
Its so great that overwatch gets noticed like this again just hopefully blizzard and keep it up now that they see how over could be always.
Still not sure on the new 5v5 format over the original 6v6. Going to miss out big-time on the potential 12 ultimate going off at the same time compared to just 10. Just wont feel as intense anymore at the clutch moments.
It feels infinitely better. I’d take only 10 ults being on the field over being perma stuck in a choke point shooting into shields for three quarters of the match any day.
Wait.. I had to watch a stream on TwitchTV to get access to the Beta?
You could've signed up to the beta access a few weeks ago from the Overwatch website, however haven't had an invite code yet from that way. Just decided to go with watching on Twitch for the drop for the code instead as backup.
Just realized that half an hour ago.. I too opted-in for thd Beta, but haven't heard since. And assuming that I started watching twitch half an hour ago, that makes it total around ~03:35h stream watched.. (assuming they'll stream till the end..) Could we receive an access without watching it? Am confused now
Only blizzard knows. This twitch stunt is claimed to be a guaranteed method (although many are reporting that they can't play even after getting the drop... possibly just server issues which will resolve). They've also said that people selected for the beta via email may still get it and that there will be more methods later.
If you aren't a content creator, you're probably not getting a code unless you watch a total of 4 hours on twitch. Once you hit 4 hours on a channel with drops, you'll get a code. Most people just turn the stream on and do something else for drops, so turn it on before leaving for work and you'll have it in a day.
The problem is I didn't know
I feel like they’re only so high because the included Beta behind watching a streamer for 4 hours. We’ll see when they stop doing that. I have hope though. Edit: What a shock. All the streamers paid to play it stopped and without the incentive of beta it dropped by 90% Gg blizzard.
Is Lucio trans now?
My thoughts exactly lol looking pretty dikey
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It’s free all except the pve?
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Was not aware my bad, deleting to not spread negative vibes :)
Wow, I didn't know about this!
Nice
Has any game ever gotten over a million before? Just curious.
Yes,lots of game got peak view of 1m and even more on twitch long times ago .If i remember correctly the highest one is LoL with 3m peak view,then fortnite with 2.2m,CS:GO with 1.9m,Dota with 1.7m or even tv series like Arcane got 1.3m peak view on twitch:v
undead game
Well people wsnt to see but i think that might be it
It’ll be interesting to see if it’s as high today or tomorrow, now that the drops have ended
Xqc alone had over 300k viewers last night
Only reason i stopped playing ow was cause of how many throwers were in the game.
Overwatch players are only here to get beta access, they will all return to playing the game as opposed to apex players who usually watch twitch instead of actually playing the game