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Overwatch 2 Engagement and Player Investment Is Declining, Activision Blizzard Admits
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<blockquote data-quote="Admin" data-source="post: 59880" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>Overwatch 2's engagement and player investment is declining, the game's publisher Activision Blizzard admits.</p><p></p><p></p><p>In its <a href="https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-details/activision-blizzard-announces-second-quarter-2023-financial" target="_blank">Q2 2023 earnings report</a>, Activision Blizzard revealed its free-to-play shooter has "declined sequentially" this quarter. However, it thinks the game's next major update, Overwatch 2: Invasion, which releases next month, should help circumvent the issue.</p><p></p><p>"While engagement and player investment in Overwatch 2 declined sequentially in the quarter, the Overwatch team is looking forward to the August 10 release of Overwatch 2: Invasion," the publisher wrote in its earnings report. "This will be the largest seasonal update yet, planned to include new PVE Story Missions, a new game mode, and a new hero progression system as well as an additional hero."</p><p></p><p></p><p>Overwatch 2: Invasion will introduce the next batch of story missions and is part of the sixth season of the team-based shooter. Last month, Blizzard confirmed the next batch of PvE missions will be <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/overwatch-2-charging-15-for-access-to-upcoming-story-missions" target="_blank">locked behind a paywall</a>, costing $15. Additionally, Blizzard confirmed earlier this month that it is likely Overwatch 2 will <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/overwatch-2-players-should-expect-a-multi-season-gap-between-story-missions-blizzard-says" target="_blank">not get new story missions for at least the next two seasons</a> after the release of Invasion.</p><p></p><p>Overwatch 2 launched October 2022 as a free download and <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/overwatch-2-has-reached-over-25-million-players-in-its-first-10-days-35-million-in-its-first-month" target="_blank">got off to a strong start</a>, with over 35 million people playing in the first month. In our review of Overwatch 2, which <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/overwatch-2-review" target="_blank">we gave an 8/10</a>, my colleague Simon Cardy wrote that "Overwatch 2 breathes new life into what was once the sharpest multiplayer shooter around, before it had its edges severely dulled by Blizzard's attention shifting away".</p><p></p><p>But Overwatch 2 has endured a number of controversies since, none more potent than <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/overwatch-2-pve-hero-mode-canceled-a-difficult-choice" target="_blank">the cancellation of its long-awaited PvE Hero mode</a> - the one feature that justified the sequel's existence.</p><p></p><p></p><p><em>Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter </em><a href="https://twitter.com/TayNixster" target="_blank"><em>@TayNixster.</em></a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/overwatch-2-engagement-and-player-investment-is-declining-activision-blizzard-admits" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Admin, post: 59880, member: 1"] Overwatch 2's engagement and player investment is declining, the game's publisher Activision Blizzard admits. In its [URL='https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-details/activision-blizzard-announces-second-quarter-2023-financial']Q2 2023 earnings report[/URL], Activision Blizzard revealed its free-to-play shooter has "declined sequentially" this quarter. However, it thinks the game's next major update, Overwatch 2: Invasion, which releases next month, should help circumvent the issue. "While engagement and player investment in Overwatch 2 declined sequentially in the quarter, the Overwatch team is looking forward to the August 10 release of Overwatch 2: Invasion," the publisher wrote in its earnings report. "This will be the largest seasonal update yet, planned to include new PVE Story Missions, a new game mode, and a new hero progression system as well as an additional hero." Overwatch 2: Invasion will introduce the next batch of story missions and is part of the sixth season of the team-based shooter. Last month, Blizzard confirmed the next batch of PvE missions will be [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/overwatch-2-charging-15-for-access-to-upcoming-story-missions']locked behind a paywall[/URL], costing $15. Additionally, Blizzard confirmed earlier this month that it is likely Overwatch 2 will [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/overwatch-2-players-should-expect-a-multi-season-gap-between-story-missions-blizzard-says']not get new story missions for at least the next two seasons[/URL] after the release of Invasion. Overwatch 2 launched October 2022 as a free download and [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/overwatch-2-has-reached-over-25-million-players-in-its-first-10-days-35-million-in-its-first-month']got off to a strong start[/URL], with over 35 million people playing in the first month. In our review of Overwatch 2, which [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/overwatch-2-review']we gave an 8/10[/URL], my colleague Simon Cardy wrote that "Overwatch 2 breathes new life into what was once the sharpest multiplayer shooter around, before it had its edges severely dulled by Blizzard's attention shifting away". But Overwatch 2 has endured a number of controversies since, none more potent than [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/overwatch-2-pve-hero-mode-canceled-a-difficult-choice']the cancellation of its long-awaited PvE Hero mode[/URL] - the one feature that justified the sequel's existence. [I]Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter [/I][URL='https://twitter.com/TayNixster'][I]@TayNixster.[/I][/URL] [url="https://www.ign.com/articles/overwatch-2-engagement-and-player-investment-is-declining-activision-blizzard-admits"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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