Summary
- Marvel Rivals is a huge success, retaining players better than other live-service titles.
- Overwatch 2 has lost almost 40% of players since Rivals launched, facing challenges.
- Marvel Rivals' impact on Overwatch 2 player count suggests a direct correlation.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Marvel Rivals has been an unequivocal success. The hero shooter launched with a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:staggeringly high player count, only to beat it a few weeks later when🦄 the gam⛦e's first season dropped. It's also managed to retain those player🍌s better than every live-service title released in the last few years. The game has 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:eno💝ugh potential content for another 875 y♕ears, too, so don't expect it to slow down any time sꦐoon.
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Only dealing 22 damaඣge on your way to Celestia🌼l rank is still something none of us could even dream of achieving.
Rivals' success has, though, unfortunately, caused a knock-on effect on what is arguably its biggest competitor, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Overwatch 2, with the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Blizzard-developed hero shooter seeing an almost 40 percent drop in players since Rivals launch🐠ed.
Overwatch 2 Has Lost Almost 40 Percent Of Its Players In Under Two Months
Using data from SteamDB, we foun🍨d that in the three months leading up to ' launch (September 5 to December 5), Overwatch 2 was enjoying an average player count of 33,738. In the seven or so weeks since Rivals was released, Overwatch 2's average player count has fallen to 20,565—a 39 percent drop.
For parity, the average player count for Overwatch 2 for each𓆉 of the three months we lo♔oked at was 34,813 (September 5 to October 4), 34,107 (October 5 to November 4), and 32,268 (November 5 to December 4), so it was clearly stable until Marvel Rivals launched.
While correlation does not always imply causation, the timing of the two 🌸instances at least indicates Marvel Rivals' launch had a significant impact on Overwatch 2's player count. Whether it caused the full 39 percent decrease, we'll never know, but there is a clear link.
Overwatch 2 has always f🐲aced an uphill struggle since it lau🦩nched in October 2022.
The game was revealed as a sequel to Overwatch, a title many considered as not needing a sequel, then completely changed its structure, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:switching to 5v5. Delays and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:complaints about the gameಌ's early battle passes meant it got off on further bad footing, and it never really recovered from there. Last November, the developers even attempted to bring back the classic l🦩ook and modes of the original 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Overwatch, but that mode didn't move the dial.
With numbers continuing to decline, it will be interesting to see where 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Activision Blizzard goes from here.
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