Overwatch open beta is Blizzard's biggest open beta ever
More than 9.7 million players joined together to put the squad-based FPS through its paces ahead of its release later this month.
Blizzard's open beta for Overwatch was quite popular. How popular? Enough to extend its duration, and to garner interest from approximately 9.7 million players, according to a press release distributed by the company.
Blizzard tallied up totals across PC, PS4, and Xbox One to determine how many players participated in the open beta. "All told, Open Beta participants teamed up to play more than 4.9 billion minutes (over 81 million hours) across more than 37 million matches of intense competitive action and all-out fun."
Overwatch launches worldwide on May 24.
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replyDavid Craddock posted a new article, Overwatch open beta is Blizzard's biggest open beta ever
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and scaling back your servers to 20Hz when your game is capable of 60. Hopefully now that they have an idea of numbers they'll invest enough into servers to run them at a higher tick rate when the game launches.
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Game is going to rule. My old RtCW buds are all loosely talking about starting back up (after fucking 15 years) to compete in Overwatch tournaments and stuff. I am absolutely fucking in if they all are, would be amazing to have that routine again. Skrims, league nights, rankings, drama amongst teams, etc. We'd replace Quakecon with Blizzcon if we got lucky and hang out.
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It's honestly Blizzard's most approachable game, so makes sense. They did a good job making a character that matches every play style from other popular FPS games.
Pharrah ->Q3a
Soldier 76 ->CoD
McCree -> CS Deagle players
Widowmaker ->Every game ever with a sniper rifle
Mei ->Asshole Simulator 3-
Mei is great. I can understand the hate though since she is basically a CC character, and everybody hates being on the receiving end of CC. One thing I don't agree with is how they gave her both short and long distance damage.
Not nearly as bad, but it kind of reminds me of Bastions damn near sniper sentry mode. Players popping their head around the corner and instantly gibbed from 100 yards away.-
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People who hate on mei are the ones who have no idea how to counter her.
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I think people are getting burnt out by loot based shooters. I mean I certainly was pretty burnt out on Destiny when I started playing The Division. I stopped playing The Division way sooner than I expected.
In the other hand now that I have played lot of the Overwatch beta and I just started playing the new Doom, I am getting the itch to play Destiny again for some reason. Like a refresher on how different FPS games can be.
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I'm such a hipster that I'm thinking of cancelling my preorder, even though I loved the game, because it's too popular.
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