Overwatch's Wildly Successful Beta Attracted Almost 10 Million Players

this game surprised me, can't wait for the full release

The beta actually reduced the likelihood of me buying this game. My personal opinion on this game: Overwatch is fun in the beginning but at the end of the day, it plays like TF 2. Sure it has Polish, Heroes have character, and there is team work. Yet the repetitive gameplay seems to sink in really fast for me and these points feel more like features of an old concept game. A mod so to speak.

I am more intrigued by something like what should be Battlefield 1, with more freedom and crazy things you can do.

Just my 2 cents.

i'll be surprised if sells reflect even half of the number who played the beta.

It's for $40 on PC only. Console is $60 minimum. Stop reporting it as $40 in general.

Torn between this and Doom.

Have they said anything about tweaking characters due to feedback from the beta? Because Hanzo and Mei are overpowered and need to be tweaked.

Extremely excited for this game to release. The polish is outstanding.

I liked it , huge blizzard fan owning every their game since WC1 , beta was quiet fun to play but i don't think that it have enough powder to keep me up hooked to play a lot.

I didn't participate in the beta because I want my progression to "mean something" by playing when the game is Live so whatever progress I make isn't wiped. I definitely want to play, probably as a support character.

I usually am absolutely downright terrible at shooting games. I feel useless and as if I wasted my money whenever I dive in and buy yet another Call of Duty game. But with Overwatch, I found my place! I played Mercy and BAM! I was a success story left and right. Which, this is how it felt playing as the Medic in Team Fortress 2. So, for what it's worth, I sincerely enjoyed my time with this beta and look forward to the game coming out.

The character movement and camera hitbox/physics of this game are perfect. Not to mention, Arnold Tsang's character designs are beautiful. I can't wait to play this game again.

I was looking forward to it before the beta. Now, I absolutely can't wait to play more. Competitive first person shooters are not normally my thing. But I just can't get enough of this one. I love all of the heroes, but Junkrat is my absolute favorite. I even have fun playing the support heroes like Mercy, Lucio and Zenyata. You can complain about Blizzard all you want, but there's no denying that they know how to polish their games. Can't wait for the full release.

I'm glad they made a beta cause I was going to buy it. I'd play for about a half hour and it would get stale no matter how well I was doing. Close call. Thanks Blizzard! ;^)

Me before Beta: "What, 21 heroes (of which I will only play a handful) with only 3 skills and no level ups and items, and a handful of maps and modes? Yeah, sure."

After Beta "Give it to me NOW!"

So I guess it did it's job. It just does everything, from gameplay to heroes to match stats, wonderfully.

Ok, for those that are saying it's not worth $40:

First of all, I don't want to be nickel and dimed in a "F2P" game. Let me pay one cost and get all the content. That's my preference. Don't break it all up into microtransactions.

Second, Blizzard is a company that actually takes care of its games. Who knows how many maps and game modes will be added while this game is live. You really want to pay for everything they add on, individually? Free-to-play, my a$$.

Do I agree about there not being a SP? To an extent, yes. I love SP experiences. However, this isn't that type of game. There is no story, just grand chaos and fun.

If it's not your style of shooter, then don't get it. It's not for everyone, and everyone is entitled to their preference of genres. If you enjoyed it, then buy the game and quit complaining, already.

I played the Doom multiplayer beta for 14 minutes. I must have played the Overwatch beta for at least 10 hours if not 15, and I'm finding it to be a hard wait for it to release so I can hop back in. I wish I could pick my own brain and really get to the reason why Doom fell so flat and Overwatch is seemingly the best shooter I've played in years. I can't quite explain it.

Its the first time Blizzard is simultaneously launching a game across all platforms. Its not surprising that a lot of people tried it for free. I personally loved Overwatch! Halo, Battlefield, and Overwatch are my competitive FPS fixes. I just hope Halo comes to PC at some point! That would be rad!

It's not a surprise. During the open beta I've sunk 50 hours into the game which is insane even by my standards and even after that marathon I still yearn for more, far more. The only problem is i'll have to juggle between this and BB because I can't dedicate that much time to both games evenly, even though they are vastly different.

For everyone saying there is "not enough content" for a $60 game... While I understand your feelings, where does the rationale for that feeling come from?

Single player games are great, but many people only play through them once. The people who play through a campaign more than once are the minority (myself being one of them). But even if you played a campaign more than once, would you really have played that game more than a multi-player-only game that is actually decent? I've played Rainbow Six Siege for over 150 hours (tracked on Steam). I've played Starcraft 2 for countless hours without ever playing the campaign. Everyone has amazing memories of GoldenEye. It sure wasn't for the single-player content.

Not bashing on people who only like single player content. But dont bash on a game for being "multi-player-only" and say there isn't enough content. Multi-player is generally what provides a game longevity, and if a developer feels the game is fun enough to only provide multi-player content and people are willing to buy and play it, that is all that matters.

well... the game is fun and all but honestly i don't see myself playing this for much longer, i played it for like 3 or 4 days in the beta and i got exhausted of it, the game needs way more content, more heroes, maps, modes, it gets so monotone, i know games like these are supposed to be monotone, but at least make it a 25-30 dollar game, not a 40, or a 60 super steal for consoles...

not much people knows this, but overwatch is pretty much the pvp component stripped out from that new blizzard mmo "project titan" that got cancelled and they decided to do this game to get some money back out of it... so yea that pretty much explains why this game looks a tad bit shady... we are pretty much paying almost full price for only the pvp component of an mmo... sweet sweet blizzard...