Since the launch of
October 2022, the game encounters a number of bad news is struggling with problems such as breaking Pve content and demanding $15 for story tasks. As a result, Overwatch 2’s player engagement and financial investments decreased, but hopes with more content promises in the future are trying to keep fresh.
Players are no longer playing Overwatch 2 and no money is spent
According to the latest income report of Activision Blizzard, players are not playing as in the game launch and they are not spending money from the store. However, the team hopes that the situation will change with a huge content update of 6 Season 6 on 10 August. The player engagement and investment in the quarter of the
“Overwatch 2 was reduced. But Overwatch team will be broadcast on 10 August Overwatch 2: Invasion update is looking forward. This will be the largest seasonal update and will contain an additional hero along with the new PVE Story Quests, a new game mode and a new hero progress system. “
As in many games, the decline in the participation of players in Overwatch 2 is a natural condition. But still the game seems to be difficult now. Although the basic structure of the game is still strong, everything around is shaded with bad business decisions. Since the launch of the game, players objected to the location of loot boxes with the model of the built-in battle, locking expensive cosmetic items and new heroes into the battleway. In addition, recent seasonal events have not been sufficiently attractive.
Esports partition looks problematic
Along with these problems in the game, Activision Blizzard faced with the work in Overwatch League and the esports section of the game seems problematic. Pride event was also a nice experience as an example of what Blizzard team is full of love. But this beautiful experience seems to be shaded by many bad business decisions that the team is hard to solve.
As an important note, Overwatch 2 will be interesting in the number of players with the arrival of Steam on August 10. For a long time, Overwatch 2’s PC player numbers were available on Battle.net, which did not explain the number of players. In turn, Steam shows the number of simultaneous players, so we can learn more about what the community looks like.