Marvel Rivals kills Overwatch 2: Blizzard's online shooter fails to stand up to competition and loses audience
Even before the release of Marvel Rivals, many experts and gamers predicted that NetEase's online action game would become the "killer" of Overwatch 2, and two months after the launch of the Chinese game, we can say that this opinion was correct.
Here's What We Know
Journalists of The Gamer portal analysed the attendance in Steam of both network games and came to the conclusion that the release of Marvel Rivals reduced the average online Overwatch 2 by 40%.
Thus, according to SteamDB, before the release of Marvel Rivals, Overwatch 2 had an average of 34 thousand players, while now this figure corresponds to 20-25 thousand.
Overwatch 2 online graph. Source: SteamDB
At the moment Marvel Rivals is the most successful service game, it keeps a stable-high audience, is actively developing and replenished with new content. The Chinese action game surpasses such giants as Diablo IV and Helldivers 2 in terms of launch figures. Most likely, this is due to the free distribution model, but we can't help noting the excellent gameplay with a huge number of different characters and unusual maps.
Source: The Gamer
