Overwatch 2 devs unfazed by decline in player engagement

On our newest Gameplay Chart of standard Xbox video games, Blizzard’s Overwatch 2 has saved its spot at twelfth this week. Whereas not within the high ten, twelfth is not unhealthy on a chart which repeatedly sees quite a lot of motion for the higher spots. Overwatch 2 tends to float up and down the chart, suggesting gamers are coming and going from the sport. Likewise, government producer Jared Neuss has now mentioned the “ebb and stream of gamers” in Overwatch 2.

Overwatch 2 sees an “ebb and stream of gamers”

“The declining stuff is principally, we’re a free-to-play recreation and it is rather straightforward to each come to the sport and test it out, and to go away to take a look at different stuff. We see a traditional ebb and stream of gamers. There’s nothing regarding to me or the staff about any of that,” Neuss stated to IGN.

Activision just lately commented on Overwatch 2’s “engagement and participant funding” in its monetary outcomes for the second quarter of 2023, saying it “declined sequentially within the quarter” however that Blizzard was waiting for Overwatch 2: Invasion.

Overwatch 2: Invasion, which had been described as Overwatch 2’s “greatest replace ever”, has now begun, providing a brand new hero, a brand new PvP recreation mode, a limited-time co-op occasion, and extra — together with $15 story missions. With that burst of recent content material, it is potential we’ll see Overwatch 2 float slightly greater on subsequent week’s Gameplay Chart.