Overwatch 2 Tops 25 Million Players in 10 Days - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 14 October 2022 / 3,921 Views
Activision Blizzard announced Overwatch 2 has surpassed 25 million players in 10 days.
"The launch of Overwatch 2 has been such an important moment for Blizzard," said Blizzard Entertainment President Mike Ybarra. "We’re thrilled to bring new players from around the world into Overwatch’s vibrant universe while welcoming back the existing Blizzard community.
"This is only the beginning—there are so many possibilities to explore in the world of Overwatch, and we cannot wait for players to experience everything the team is building for the live game."
Blizzard announced it will reveal more details at a later date on its upcoming PvE mode.
TWENTY FIVE. MILLION. PLAYERS. IN. TEN. DAYS. ?
— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) October 14, 2022
Thank you to the 25 Million Players who have now jumped into #Overwatch2 with us ?? pic.twitter.com/2ESBr5Shmk
To celebrate the milestone, Blizzard is giving any player who logs in from October 25 to the end of the season the Cursed Captain Reaper Legendary skin and a Health Pack Weapon Charm. There will also be three double match XP weekends on the weekend starting October 21, October 28, and November 24:
- Starting October 21 at 11:00 a.m. PT, ending October 24 at 11:00 a.m. PT
- Starting October 28 at 11:00 a.m. PT, ending October 31 at 11:00 a.m. PT
- Starting November 24 at 11:00 a.m. PT, ending November 28 at 11:00 a.m. PT
Overwatch 2 is available for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
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 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Not bad, not bad at all.
Why did Twitter label the image as "sensitive content"?
Congrats, making it free to play was a brilliant move!
People will surely buy battlepass and digital content!
Took me 5 days to get on, another to wait for my stuff to be on the game. It's okay but a '2', it is not. It's an update to OW1 at best. True OW2 will release when they release the PvE. Still fun but OW1 wasn't ever not fun.
I'm glad. I'm having a blast playing it. Sojourn represent!!!
Honestly surprised in both ways. I expected more than that since it's f2p, 2nd entry, account based, more platforms. Overwatch 1 had more than 50m players. At the same time I'm surprised it even got that many players with all the ActivisionBlizzard controversy, same game controversy, etc.
I don't think that number is anywhere close to accurate, honestly. I'm sure they mean 25 million accounts have logged into Overwatch 2 and attempted to play at some point. I know I personally have four accounts and logged in with three of them.
Keep in mind that is 25~ million accounts across the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Playstation 4, Playstation 5 and the PC.
If that was only a single platform, it would be extremely impressive... But spread across a hardware install base of half a billion?
It's still a big success no doubt, but we do need to put the numbers into perspective when a game launches on every current and even last-gen platforms.
And I also logged in on xbox, nintendo, and psn accounts as well as PC, where I have three alternates and a main account. We don't know the actual numbers, because we don't know Blizzard's metric for what counts as a separate user.
Have you not merged your accounts?
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