Is overwatch 2 really that bad? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Buttflapper@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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I've played maybe 10 hours total of Overwatch 2 and it is incredibly boring (to me). But it seems to get lots of updates often, heavy monetization which sucks. The steam reviews are scalding. It really makes me wonder.... is it that bad? Like really? It's hard to gauge if the game is thriving or on deaath's door...

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[-] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months ago

Because despite the bitching it still has a very respectable user base, at least purely looking at the Steam stats:

[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Do we know it's average playerbase back when it was still overwatch?

[-] SnugZebras@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago

No pretty sure it was Battle.net exclusive

[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's honestly not that good, when games like CS2 are regularly pulling 2million+.

According to 3rd party websites (that may not have accurate estimates), Overwatch 1 had between 600k-1mil peak concurrent players through a lot of 2020/2021. One of those same websites now says that OW2 had about 140k peak players today when combining all players on all platforms. So it would seem there's been a huge drop in players.