OW2

Guys according to news, OW2 will be free. This definitely means a looot more people are gonna try the game out, including myself. What do you think will be the effect on val playerbase and esports in general? I mean if I do enjoy the game, I would also follow its esports scene as well. I just hope riot does not fuck up valorant esports with franchsing too much.

blizzard made it so

Between franchising and the release of OW2 there's a considerable possibility of Val playerbase taking a hit

i will tell u rn i dont care sadly even if they pay me i wont play that shit dead game

the game from r34?

no one cares

more overwatch porn lets gooo

Not much I don't believe and this is coming from person who still enjoys and follows Overwatch and its esport. Overwatch League (tier 1 esport) NA/West games average at around 50k on YouTube (exclusive) per game currently, I don't know about APAC but at least lower YouTube numbers. First day of OWL this season that is played on Overwatch 2 with new maps, hero changes and 1 new hero Sojourn peaked at like little under 100k viewers on YouTube. So no I don't think its esport is any threat to Valorant since I don't believe that it will get that massive of a boost and OWL has existed since 2018 and it hasn't killed or badly damaged single esport to my knowledge outside of maybe something like TF2 at start since they lost good amount of talent.

And overall who doesn't own copy of OW already? Also they have free weekends quite often. I really hope OW makes comeback, but I don't think it will damage Valorant (like any established game) at all. It can easily exist in its own space without damaging other and I don't think there's going to be huge surge of people wanting to become OW pros like when OWL was announced originally.

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