Overwatch 2 Beta Scheduled for Late June Ahead of Free-to-Play FPS’ October Release

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Blizzard has sent out a tweet confirming that a new Overwatch 2 beta will be launched later this month on June 28 ahead of the game's recently announced October early access release date.

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Ok I have to ask this.... are people still playing overwatch? I kinda thought it died for everyone other than influencers wanting to wear tight body suites to gain followers.
 
Wow, 2? It feels like the first one only just came out.
I tried it once during a Free Weekend, just to determine if I thought it was appropriate for my stepson. I guess that means it was a while ago after all, as he is old enough that I don't feel like I have to do that anymore...

I found the first one completely uninteresting. Super fast and twitchy, unrealistic and boring.
 
serpretetsky said:
wiki list of most-played video games to the rescue!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-played_video_games_by_player_count
(i have no idea how accurate it is)
(also i noticed some of the numbers are peak numbers, others are subscriptions, so if you want to compare 2 games make sure they're counting the same thing)
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Immediately I have my doubts, considering PUBG is at the top of the list.

And 1.2 billion players? That can't possibly be right.

The world population may be almost 8 billion now, but still that would mean that almost 15% of the worlds population is regularly playing PUBG. That for a title that everyone I ever encounter say they played back in 2016-2017 when it was in Steam Greenlight, but since have have stopped playing.

Similarly, a BILLION people are regularly playing Crossfire? A tactical FPS game which I, a fan of tactical FPS games, have never heard of, and from the screenshots I cna find looks like a ****ty ripoff of Counter-Strike?

This just doesn't pass the smell test.
 
Zarathustra said:
Immediately I have my doubts, considering PUBG is at the top of the list.

And 1.2 billion players? That can't possibly be right.

The world population may be almost 8 billion now, but still that would mean that almost 15% of the worlds population is regularly playing PUBG. That for a title that everyone I ever encounter say they played back in 2016-2017 when it was in Steam Greenlight, but since have have stopped playing.

Similarly, a BILLION people are regularly playing Crossfire? A tactical FPS game which I, a fan of tactical FPS games, have never heard of, and from the screenshots I cna find looks like a ****ty ripoff of Counter-Strike?

This just doesn't pass the smell test.
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Agreed about pubg and other numbers there. For pubg it looks like they included the mobile version and then simply counted the number of downloads.

I wouldn't be surprised if crossfire has more players than games like cs:go. Sometimes I forget how many people are on that side of the world. But I also don't know.
 
Grimlakin said:
Ok I have to ask this.... are people still playing overwatch? I kinda thought it died for everyone other than influencers wanting to wear tight body suites to gain followers.
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I think I quit around the time that apex legends came out, seeing Overwatch 2 is supposed to be backwards compatible with 1 for multiplay, I'm curious to how this launch will pan out.
 
Denpepe said:
seeing Overwatch 2 is supposed to be backwards compatible with 1 for multiplay,
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Hmm that should be interesting, as there really isn't anything ~but~ multiplay in the original title.
 
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