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Blizzard's Shooter Levels Up to 10M Players
SBFord
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Blizzard's Shooter Levels Up to 10M Players
Just a couple weeks past release and Blizzard's Overwatch juggernaut continues to grow, expanding half again from its 7M players on launch day. As of today, Overwatch has scored 10M active players. That's pretty impressive by any measure.
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Discussion / If anyone was doubting Overwatch will have healthy playerbase
I wrote
Put your money where your mouth is.
Overwatch will generate over 10 million in sales worldwide Guaranteed.
4:58pm 5/13/16
A game by Blizzard is selling millions and millions of copies !
Who'd have expected THAT ?
Lol
Also, dissing Blizzard? I thought the edgy and cool people had become more original than that by now...
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
this game not even worth 10 penny fking totaly CASUAL shoter
I sure will. Fortunately for me it's the kind that tastes delicious and does not contain much cyanide.
But hey, 10mil sales... maybe they'll think about creating that "world" to explore, aka re-open development on Titan. Im sure the success of Overwatch has re-gained some confidence within the dev team that was at an all time low when they had to cancel Titan.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
As for the Negative Nancy in me, that's raised more by products I simply don't like being successful, like MOBAs, Cartoony shooters, COD like shooters, Action games like God of War, platformers, etc.. As it simply means more and more of those games, and less of the games I actually want to see. Meaning I'm stuck getting my fill from less polished products, or waiting around for some crowdfunded sales pitch to be a reality...
By all means enjoy what you want to enjoy, yet don't act like everyone has to be happy such games are successful, nor that there isn't sound reason for not wanting to see them be successful.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
"don't act like everyone has to be happy such games are successful"? What the hell does that even mean? Why the hell shouldn't people be happy a game is successful? Why the hell would anyone wish a game is unsuccessful?
"This may hurt a little, but it's something you'll get used to. Relax....."
You certainly didn't play it then, it is an absolute perfect team based shooter. Emphasis on team, you need tactics and skill to get to the highest ranks.
Yes, it is playable and enjoyable by absolute noobs but so are other Blizzard games, thats why they sell so much. But it is so damn difficult to master and believe me, at the end of the month, ranked play is coming and you'll see some amazing stuff coming from this game.
They delivered an absolute beauty of a game, with such an amazing polish to it, so fun to play casually and so fun to play on a higher level with 6 people on voice finding the best setup to break your enemies.
I admit when a game is shit, like diablo 3 was at launch, but this one ? Great game and worth every penny.
As for " Why the hell would anyone wish a game is unsuccessful" that's the very essence of a free market friend, we all have preferences, and it's perfectly natural to want those preferences to succeed over things we do not prefer.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Give it a rest man....and grow up a little. The game is awesome and everyone playing it is having a great time.
LOL...since I didn't. Maybe you should calm down and realize I just asked questions....maybe?
As to the rest...oh yeah, much more clear to me now
/rolls eyes
"This may hurt a little, but it's something you'll get used to. Relax....."
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
So, really, it doesn't matter if Overwatch reaches 10 million; it doesn't matter if it reaches 20, because in 6-12 months, 90% of them will be gone - forever. It's the nature of the beast. If Blizzard wants to make another big splash with some actual staying power, they need to release another MMORPG. That's all there is to it.
*Edit* As an aside, how much was MMORPG.com paid off to continuously hype this puppy? It's not an MMORPG. Let me say that again: It. Is. Not. An. MMORPG. So... aside from the fact that it was produced by Blizzard, why should I care about Overwatch updates?
Much better than the Kool-Aid they served in that Jonestown sim.
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