OW 2 Player Count Still Healthy According to Exec Producer

It’s truthful to say that Overwatch 2 has had a difficult begin as a sport. After cancelling a lot anticipated PVE content material, and the shutdown of the OWL, gamers may very well be forgiven for anticipating the sport to have taken a little bit of successful. in line with a latest interview although, the chief producer says the OW 2 participant depend is wholesome and even rising. It appears the builders’ latest modifications to try to bolster the free-to-play shooter have paid off.

Whereas promised content material that long-time followers had been excited to see has needed to be minimize, Blizzard has change into residing as much as different commitments just lately. They’ve begun to ship reworks of older Heroes. Their strategy to patches additionally appears to be doing a greater job of maintaining the sport partaking. That’s together with extra collaborations and even modifications to pricing coming. All these strikes to try to enhance the final person expertise for Overwatch 2 may need labored. A brand new interview has given us fairly a number of extra particulars, which level to OW 2 being in a a lot more healthy place.

OW 2 Participant Rely

Talking in a brand new interview, Jared Neuss has detailed fairly a bit extra about OW 2 participant depend. Whereas the sport at one level held records for most negative reviews, it appears the participant numbers have held out. Talking particularly of Steam, the chief producer of Overwatch 2 mentioned “Not solely are folks leaping in for the primary time on Steam, however individuals are coming again and making Steam their main platform”. It appears there’s nonetheless an honest variety of gamers sticking round on Steam, even after the sport obtained so many poor evaluations.

Speaking extra usually concerning the general viewers between OW 1 and the OW 2 participant depend, Neuss mentioned “The sport is doing rather well. The viewers has grown considerably… We’ve got a very wholesome combine of people that’ve been enjoying Overwatch for a very long time and model new gamers”. They’ve recognized this as a hit of their objectives for going free to play.

What Does the Participant Rely Look Like?

Common optimistic sentiments in interviews are one thing, however what will we really know concerning the participant base of OW 2? It’s troublesome to quantify in some phrases. Blizzard doesn’t reveal actual numbers. We will see participant numbers on platforms like Steam, but it surely doesn’t inform the total story when most legacy OW gamers are extra used to utilizing Blizzard’s personal launcher.

When it comes to the publicly out there Steam knowledge, the sport’s participant numbers peaked within the month of its launch on this platform. It achieved 75,361 peak gamers in August. It misplaced a substantial variety of gamers in September, falling to a low with a peak of 33,000. Nonetheless, in each October and November, it noticed elevated month-to-month highs. It reveals that whereas some consideration died off initially, OW 2’s Steam participant base is rising.

If the Steam numbers are indicative of the participant base elsewhere, this can be a wholesome signal for the way forward for the sport. Whereas it confronted some early issues, Blizzard’s present improvements and modifications to the sport proceed to usher in new and returning gamers. When huge modifications come subsequent yr just like the much-anticipated monetization fixes, we’d see much more folks return to the OW 2 participant depend.