Overwatch 2 PvP Beta Attracted Over 1.5 Million Concurrent Viewers on Twitch - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 May 2022 / 1,299 Views
Blizzard Entertainment this week launched the closed beta for Overwatch 2.
Yesterday the interest in seeing Overwatch 2 appears to have been high as there were over 1.5 million concurrent viewers on Twitch. This figure is a brand-new record for Overwatch on Twitch.
"Together we reached over 1.5M concurrent views, the highest day ever for Overwatch on Twitch," reads a tweet from Blizzard.
It should be noted that one way to gain access to the beta was via Twitch drops. Those who watched the Overwatch 2 beta event on Twitch, which took place from 10 am PT to 6 pm PT, for fours were guaranteed access to the beta.
The closed beta is live until May 17 and offers four new maps: New Queen Street, Colosseo, Circuit Royal and Midtown. There are also eight old maps available to play.
About to get real!
— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) April 28, 2022
Together we reached over 1.5M concurrent views, the highest day ever for Overwatch on Twitch. Let’s go! pic.twitter.com/bblWCahUYI
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Played a support role... The game looks and feels like Overwatch 1.0.
Which is expected as it's built on top of the same technical foundations.
Visually there isn't much of an increase, which is sad considering the 6+ years since the first game.
It did? My mate got in and played a game on PC, usually a PS4 player. I tuned into Twitch around the time it and had maybe 55k on OW and 20k on OW2, at the moment it's 100k combined. So 1.5mil is impressive... but it looked the same basically, few hud updates and graphical changes and 5v5 but same maps same characters. The PvE better be expansive enough to warrant the purchase else I can just go back to OW1.
huh? even late in the day I saw 300k on the Overwatch main channel and just 100k alone just for Seagull for example
requiring 4 hours of watching for access to the beta is an interesting manipulation tactic... it works, everyone that used email invitation didn't get in yet, that was their game
