They gradually stopped playing around June / July, I think around Hog's sledgehammer nerf then my friends think that's really stupid (me also) so they just return to play LoL. I regularly played with my friends (fellow foreigners or some Koreans) for the whole year. In Korea is like the OP said, pretty much the PC-bang scene for Overwatch is sort of dead. Hello, living between Korea and Indonesia here, And it still maintains a high popularity among Arab gamers. Tl dr: I can say that Overwatch is a success in the Arab region to say the least. But we're used to this with other games too, it is very rare for a game to have MENA dedicated servers, alas. We don't have our own servers and we are always playing on EU servers with 120 ping or higher. I don't want to sound like a victim but we are used to our region being represented in stupid generic shooter games that have maps from this region that are always ugly and messed up and the Arabic script is usually wrong, and if they had Arab characters they usually are very unappealling and speak gibberish that is supposed to resemble Arabic.Īs for competitive Overwatch, we have small tournaments here and there, but we're still way behind in this respect. They nailed the Arabic voicelines and voice acting for Ana and everything else like the signs with Arabic writings on Anubis and Oasis. The fact that it has two Arab characters and two maps from the region only made it more popluar and loved. This game is so polished and appealing in terms of world and character design. And with Destiny 2 being such a disappointment I'd say that Overwatch still is the most popular. I'd say it even overtook games like Destiny/COD/Battlefield/Fifa, which were the most popular online games at some point. Overwatch is very popular among gamers here in the Arab World. I'm very hopeful for OWL and making casuals interested in OW esports because I was one of those casuals that just got into it because of OWWC. There were 3 PH teams that joined Open Division so there's at least some interest in the joining esports scene. In terms of watching the big overseas tourneys like APEX or Contenders, it's not really popular because there has been 0 marketing so far.
People do play competitive ladder and we have had some small local tourneys. On the other hand, people who are into the esports scene here are hard to come by. Player base has gone down compared to release but I just attribute that to the honeymoon phase of the game being over and people who rode the hype have moved on to new hype games. It's actually kind of shocking for me that it got as popular as it did with that price tag haha.
Overwatch online player count Pc#
Of course the 40$ price is high so it will never be the most played PC game here. They still play the game regularly but it's more on casual and enjoy the game very much. They also tend to buy Overwatch merch especially the figures. We have a very big anime community and a lot of that audience is still very into Overwatch.
If it's the game itself, Overwatch is still incredibly popular in the Philippines. Hmm to me popularity in my country can be divided into popularity of Overwatch in general and popularity of its eSports scene. How about in your country? Is overwatch ruined? could you tell me? I really love overwatch, so I want they still have a good condition from every point of view. They love to play battleground, and they are looking forward to e-sports of battleground. but so many people in Korea said Overwatch league and apex and every blizzard's e-sports working are ruined and overwatch too. and I love to watch overwatch competitive league. So, overwatch is still the best game for me. when I am a teenager, especially in high school, I don't like pc games. when I became 20's, the first game I played was starcraft2. You know battleground has bad optimization quality. second is lol, first is battleground)įirst, my PC is not good. but nowadays, they got 11.54% of user player count on PC bang.
usually, when lol has 30 % of user count, Overwatch get 25% of user player count on PC bang. In Korea, so many players get out from overwatch and then they play battleground or lol.