Overwatch 2 will dominate Twitch starting today as Blizzard copies a trick from Riot

The Overwatch 2 beta will begin today, Wednesday, April 27th. dominate the number of viewers on Twitch, says MeinMMO author Schuhmann. Because Blizzard has adopted a trick that Riot Games established in the shooter “Valorant” in 2020. If you want to be in the Overwatch 2 beta, you have to watch Twitch. But even without drops, Overwatch was already a hit on Twitch yesterday.

How strong was Overwatch 2 on Twitxch already? strong as an ox:

• The Overwatch 2 beta began Tuesday, April 26 at 7:00 p.m.
• Viewership of Overwatch 2 rose from a “sleeping” 9,700 viewers to a peak of 454,735 viewers.
• Although the beta only lasted a few hours, it was enough to make Overwatch 2 one of the top 10 biggest games on Twitch in the last 3 days in “Trending Games”.

Overwatch breaks 4-year-old Twitch viewership record

This is what makes it so special: As the site Dotesports reports, Overwatch 2 broke its viewership record on Twitch yesterday (via dotesports):

• 2 hours after the start of the beta, 469,000 viewers were watching – Overwatch had never had so many viewers
• The previous record was 349,152, which was set on January 10, 2018, when the Overwatch League started its inaugural season

“Bad Boy” xQc has the most viewers with Overwatch

Who were the big winners? The biggest winner was “xQC,” who was a former Overwatch pro himself before being kicked out of the league for misconduct. He played Overwatch 2 for 5 hours and had an average of 140,000 viewers. Record.

Next to him, the other former professional Seagull convinced. There was a glorious scene on Twitch: the self-proclaimed “Hanzo God” met one of the “World’s Greatest Widowmaker” players.

Why will Overwatch 2 really dominate Twitch starting today? Starting today, 4/27, viewers can enjoy guaranteed access to the Overwatch 2 beta by watching a Twitch streamer for at least 4 hours.

This is a tactic that Riot Games established in 2020 with the shooter “Valorant”. Back then, you could only get access to the Valorant beta by watching a streamer with Twitch Drops enabled.

This caused an incredible hype in 2020: streamers left their streams on all night to “farm viewers” and they watched their people without end. There were even complaints about some tactics used by streamers back then: the rogue rogue DrDisrespect brazenly lied that he had the drops too, when he really didn’t.

The hardcore shooter Escape from Tarkov also uses Twtich drops to regularly get to the top of Twtich.

After Overwatch ran so strong on Twitch yesterday – still without drops – you can safely assume that Overwatch will be even bigger today when the drops become active.

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The 5 strongest heroes in Overwatch 2 you should play in the beta