Will Overwatch ever reach TF2 numbers?

Will Overwatch ever reach TF2 numbers?

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if they haven't yet, no
it is very unlikely since the hype around the game is dying down
maybe with a massive price drop and a lot of advertisement

It's another "Sup Forums pretends to know what they're talking about" post

it already has dipdong

games don't usually get a massive influx of new players months after release for no reason
point out what exactly is wrong with my post shithead

F2P when?

Well TF2 is F2P whereas Overwatch is $60

it's actually $40, on pc, if you don't get tricked into paying $20 for a skin

maybe if they stoop to free to play garbage.

>The hype around this game is dying down

The damn game sold 15 million copies and it's only been out for like three to four months. This is just another "le dead game" meme that Sup Forums likes to spout. Go back to bitching about TORtanic, you humanoid cumstain.

>The hype around this game is dying down
But most of those sales were during the first two months. This game, like every single other game, is now in the decline phase.
It is slowly losing players not slowly gaining new players. So again please point out to me what is wrong with my post.

>It is slowly losing players not slowly gaining new players. So again please point out to me what is wrong with my post.

citation fucking needed.

steamcharts.com/app/440

Blizzard is claiming 10 million players according to PC Gamer. This is a believable stat I figure since the game is on three platforms.

pcgamer.com/overwatch-breaks-10-million-players/

Obviously these two statistics don't go hand in hand, but I think we can assume that an all time peak of 117k doesn't suggest a playerbase of 10 million.

Overwatch is crawling with hackers and will be near death by Christmas.

3 months and 15mil overwatch owners
vs
9 years and 34mil tf2 owners
overwatch is already more popular and successful than tf2

There is no stats proving one way or the other and you know that. I'm just making a fair assumption based on EVERY OTHER FUCKING GAME EVER MADE.
After the initial hype the player base slowly declines.

>stoop to free to play
>when they already have content that is unobtainable outside of purchasing with blizzardbucks
>when they already have restricted content that is not purchasable with coins

>you paid $60 for a incomplete game that contains content that can't be earned through gameplay and must be paid for

>There is no stats proving one way or the other and you know that. I'm just making a fair assumption based on EVERY OTHER FUCKING GAME EVER MADE.

Aaah, so you're just talking out of your ass. This is why nobody takes you seriously, Sup Forums. You're all desperate for a new TORtanic.

>TF2 F2P
>on release
u srs nigga?

How come we like to act stupid here?

>an incomplete game

What the fuck does that even mean?
Am I just going to be playing a match of overwatch and suddenly the game shuts down and I get a message saying "We're sorry, we ran out of resources. Hope you like the game anyway! Love, Blizzard."

this and or getting a good esports scene going could make it live on for a long time

>You're all desperate for a new TORtanic.
What the fuck are you talking about? I play Overwatch, I like Overwatch and Overwatch is fucking successful.
It's just very obvious that the player base is declining because that is what happens to every single game.

If it does the success won't last as long.

You're retarded if you think most of their userbase didn't pick it up until F2P.

because it gets the most (you's)

I don't know. The Orange Box was very successful.

>tfw Tracer still doesn't have any good SFM content

it's just recolours you fucking baby

>nobody ever buys a game a few weeks after its released

>act

Some of the users sadly aren't acting

I'd understand that mindset two or three years after a game is released, but it's only been out for like four fucking months. A game as popular as overwatch doesn't just die off that quickly unless it's especially bad like Battlefront of Battleborn.

>it's $70 Ausbucks for the regular edition

There's no fucking content

Videogames not even 10 years ago had 20 times the content Overbotch has

The userbase is definitely not declining lmfao.

>t. battleborn fanboy

The game has no dedicated servers
The game has no community servers.
The game has no custom map support.
The game only churns out new content at the speed of an MMO.
The game does not have a competitive tick rate that has been the bread and butter for competitive FPS for years.
If you're going to make a competitive game to put on the market, you'd damn well better have all the core features that FPS games have had since fucking Quake.

The game has plenty of content though?
Or are you going to do that thing where you arbitrarily decide a games worth based on your own personal subjective opinion? Because you probably shouldn't do that. It'll make you look stupid.
Oh wait, everyone on this pants-on-head retarded board does that regularly. Never mind.

I was complaining that it has already has F2P elements and that it has stooped to F2P level.

Dota 2 has content (recolours) that can be earned through gameplay, so does Overwatch. Except that you have to get cucked by Blizzard and pay $60.

You're implying that overwatch is supposed to be competitive.

What the fuck are you smoking? Do you still see people playing NMS in the same quantity as day 1? It is without question that more people played Overwatch at the start than now. Unless Youtube/Reddit kept campaigning the game continuously to bring about more and more players or if there is some new major update/aggreessive advertisement a product will slowly decline. Hell even Tf2 is no longer in its hayday so stop cucking yourself to some tree and stop posting your counter-argument as another argument to spew your subhuman stain about.

You should go back and actually read my posts

>A game as popular as overwatch doesn't just die off that quickly
What part of SLOW DECLINE don't you fucking understand?

Overwatch is doomed and if you disagree you are either
>1.) a Blizzshill
>2.) in denial
I'd like this game to be good, because some of my friends like it and it's been ages since I played with friends, but Blizzard is so incompetent that this game attracted basically every aimbot-using, meth-snorting epic hax0r under the heavens. You cannot, I repeat, you CANNOT find a match without cheaters anymore. They're that many. If you still enjoy this, there must be something wrong with you.

There hardly any fucking maps or gamemodes for the price we paid.

So you're saying every game ever made sees its playerbase decline within the 4 months since it is released?

Whatever you say champ.

loadout is more fun and has more content than overwatch.

and at least they'll straight up try to rip you off in the ingame store unlike blizzard's jewboxes. but at least you get what you want.

>Do you still see people playing NMS in the same quantity as day 1?
No? Because everyone knew that game was shit.

>It is without question that more people played Overwatch at the start than now.
But you literally JUST said there's no evidence supporting one way or the other. Again, you're talking out of your ass.
>Youtube/Reddit kept campaigning the game continuously to bring about more and more players or if there is some new major update/aggreessive advertisement a product will slowly decline.
or maybe...you know...the game might be good? And more people are playing it because they heard the game is good?
I'm not even saying the playerbase isn't dropping, like you said, we don't know if it's not. My problem is Sup Forums wants this game to die so they can get another TORtanic, that's why there's so much shitposting around this game.
>Hell even Tf2 is no longer in its hayday
That's because the damn game is almost ten years old
>so stop cucking yourself to some tree and stop posting your counter-argument as another argument to spew your subhuman stain about.
And then here comes the stream of buzzwords and nonsense. Right on, man. You're fucking awesome and cool.

>the new Baby's First FPS
>Balance is skewed (you'll almost always see a McCree at least once in a match, but never a Symmertra)
>there's so damn many characters that the mere act of buffing or nerfing one can suddenly cause another to over or underperform
>games are won and lost less by personal skill level and more by how many times your team can mash Q
>you will learn to loath certain classes
>leveling system, beyond getting free loot crates and how many hours you've tanked into the game, is pointless
>Game mode variety boils down to attack/defend that transitions to payload, and King of the Hill that always devolves into a 99% / 99% contested fest
>A touch of redundancy with the scoring system in KOTH: IE "IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU JUST WON THE MATCH FROM THE GAME TEXT, HERE'S A BIG FUCKING SCREEN THAT SAYS YOU WON THE MATCH"
>A spray system put in merely on the merit TF2 has it (and has none of the charm since you can only use in-game sprays and not your own)
>Blizzard jerking themselves off to their own references (Blizz studios in Hollywood, D.va being recruited on the merit she was good at Star Craft 2)
>"We totally don't want to copy Valve with TF2, so here's a sniper, a medic, engineer, demo man, and a soldier that function the same way they do in TF2 with some extra cooldowns slapped on"
>No, the plot of Omnics vs. Humans totally isn't an analogy to modern day culture clashes
It could go either way, but I'm not holding my breath

I can say with confidence that almost every single one yes. It slowly declines until it stabilizes at a certain number of players, unless it's a singleplayer game than it slowly declines until almost nobody is playing that anymore.
For a game that was as hyped as Overwatch that is even more likely since a lot of people who are not used to playing the same game over and over again bought it.

>My problem is Sup Forums wants this game to die

Why the fuck do you think that? Point out one post ITT stating such a thing, just one.

You have no argument. The game has too many problems and Blizzard is once again too stupid to solve them.

>y-you're just retarded!!

I think the number one thing I've learned on this board is nobody will ever be happy spending 60$ on a game. It could be the best game ever and roaches like you would crawl out of the woodwork and say it's just simply not worth it.

good, tracer is the least attractive female character in the game next to the tranny russian and egyptian granny

What I find it amazing is how they manage to take all the fun away from Payload.

Are you restricting this to only certain genres or what? Because you are categorically wrong that all multiplayer games see a declining playerbase, even within the scope of an entire year. On a long enough timeline, yes, you're right, but your statement doesn't hold true over short periods.

You likely may be correct that something extremely hyped and bought on day 1 probably sees a big drop. But there are also cult games and word-of-mouth games where the playerbase increases over this similar length of time. That's called a slow burn.

I'm happy with Witcher 3.
Already played 200hrs of it

>it's the "blizzcucks come out in drones to blindly defend the game" episode

You paid $60 for a game with little content, that has unlockables that is behind a paywall and that has content that is restricted from being purchased with coins. Soon you will be paying for all your heroes and maps, little blizzard fans.

Careful, Witcher 3 has Nvidia-exclusive features, so it's a no-no on Sup Forums.

Well there's all of these posts.

Besides the fact that I didnt play one (obvious) hacker, that doesnt mean the game is "doomed".
Look at CS:GO wich has plenty of hackers.
You dont have to like the game but its far away from dying. And why even care? I mean I still play AoE2 from time to time and find some people to play with.

I don't know why, but this image makes me uncomfortable. I feel angry for some reason, but at the same time I feel like I want it. I just don't want my girl next to some guy.

>It's an "Overwatch fanboy has to desperately defend his purchase to validate himself" episode

I think you're missing my original point.
The game won't be getting too many new players after 4 months.
So the chances of surpassing TF2 in terms of max number of players is nigh impossible. Unless they go free 2 play and add a bunch of new content.

>quoting
Jesus christ you baby. I fucking like the game, my whole point is that it won't surpass tf2.
Fucking blizzardrones are so easily triggered. Any criticism means YOU JUST WANT THE GAME TO DIE, YOU'RE JUST LOOKING FOR A NEW TORTANIC

>Look at CS:GO wich has plenty of hackers.

CSGO has VAC. Overwatch has nothing except Blizzard, and everyone who's played a few hours of WoW PvP knows how Blizz deals with cheaters (ignore, deny, lalala not listening).

Overwatch
is
doomed

I know it hurts, but you need to accept it.

>I think you're missing my original point.

I don't think I am. Plenty of games see player base increases in the short to medium term. They don't all peak within 2 weeks of release.

>You paid $60 for a game with little content
I'd say it has a fair amount of content. Also what fucktard would pay 60$ for this game? It's 40$ you inept tard unless you buy stupid cosmetics.
>that has unlockables that is behind a paywall
Again, they're cosmetics. Cosmetics that you unlock through playing the damn game
>Soon you will be paying for all your heroes and maps, little blizzard fans.
Tell you what, if they start doing that then I'll jump on the Sup Forums contrarian hatewagon with you. Until then you aren't changing anyones opinion.

>15 million

They specifically said players to make the game seem more successful than it really is. I imagine they're including alt accounts and counting people who played the beta twice.

Actual sales numbers paint a different picture.

Or mabey that user is making a legitimate criticism. The blizzard defend force will lap up anything and defend dogshit. There are many games that deserve the $60 price point by this is not one of them my friend.

>valid criticism means Sup Forums wants a game to fail for the sake of it

Sup Forums wants bullshit-free gaming, and Blizzard stopped delivering years ago.

I should hope not. I can't stomach any more fanart of those lame designs.

God i hope not tf2 is way better then overwatch

>The game is dying
>Well it's not really, you're just trying to be a negative shithead. You don't really have proof it's dyi-
>REEEEEEEEEEEEE FUCKING BLIZZDRONES! BUZZWORD BUZZWORD KEK MEME KEK

>Will a pay to play game ever reach a free to play game's #s?

No retard. Even if they were equally popular, the price barrier will make overwatch's player base inherently smaller.

to be fair, i didn't say it should die in my post . but rather the game lacks in anything meaningful.

and i'll even add that i think it's funny that blizzard makes purposely unbalancable games for casuals and everyone takes them seriously as an esport.

I think a new term should be made up to describe the people that play blizzard games because casuals will at least take a game somewhat seriously. the people playing their games now are fucking retards that only know what direction to run in because of all the shinny arrows, and even then most of them run the wrong way.

If they make it f2p, then maybe

>They don't all peak within 2 weeks of release
But it's already been 3 months, and you even conceded this game was extremely hyped so many of the players who bought the game on day one aren't the type of players that will stick around for long.
How exactly is the max player supposed to increase threefold without a massive drop in price?

Unless it goes free to play to attract all the fucking russians and 10 year olds of the world, no

Why should it "hurt" me? I just told you that there will always be people playing it and I didnt encounter one hacker till now.
If I wanna play a match overwatch in the next 5 years, the game will still be up and running.

>They specifically said players to make the game more successful then it really is
ahaha oh man, Mr Fantastic is envious on how much of a stretch that is

I didn't say the game is dying, at least not more than any other game at least. But it certainly less likely to retain a playerbase in 9 years with no community servers and content

Hopefully never

>being this delusional

meh.
this games ok, it's slightly better than tf2 I guess.
As far as triple A titles though, it's one of the best games in the last 10 years. So I can understand how people that haven't experienced good video games can worship it. Even though it really isn't all that good.

>I didn't encounter one hacker till now
I played the game on my friend's computer for 2 matches and I encounter a hacker.

>Sup Forums wants bullshit-free gaming.
That's the dumbest fucking thing I've heard in my life.
Sup Forums is the epitome of making a mountain out of a god damn mole-hill.

>But it certainly less likely to retain a playerbase in 9 years with no community servers and content

Alright, but what online game does keep a consistent playerbase for over 9 years? TF2 has all of those things and that game is as dead as a black guy in a town full of racists.

If you really think Blizzard will shut down the OW servers 5 years from now, then we have strongly different expiriences with older games.

Was it an actual hacker or did you just get your shit pushed in?

>Increasingly nervous faggots says Overwatch is dying for the 7th time this year
kek

>Conveniently forgets part where blizzard has already pulled bullshit and has restricted content from being purchased with coins
>inb4 ITS LITERALLY JUST COMETICS HAHA ITS A RECOLOUR

Heh I see you just turn a blind eye to anything bad and legitimate criticism. I hate to say it but you might just be one of those fabled blizzard "drones" I hear about. Dota 2 has sizeable content, is completely free and also has unlockable cosmetics through gameplay. Overwatch I can't say the same.

>TF2 has all of those things and that game is as dead as a black guy in a town full of racists
62567 active players over the last 24 hours is not that bad for a 9y game.

>i think it's funny that blizzard makes purposely unbalancable games for casuals and everyone takes them seriously as an esport.

ahahahaha wat?
I'm not denying that blizzard games are unbalanced, but you don't think they do it on purpose, do you?

where did he ever implied that?