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On the PC side of the chart, the usual top four continue to dominate the list, though Dungeon Fighter Online and League of Legends swapped places.

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July 8th was the seven year anniversary of the title’s launch and Blizzard marked the moment with an update about its future status.

So, within the scope of what NPD tracks, Overwatch has a very good June… or last three days of June, if sales jumped on the 28th.įinally, this is the end of the tale for the long troubled title Heroes of the Storm. This jump was driven by the release of the Overwatch 2 Beta on June 28th. Overwatch returned to the top 20 best-selling titles chart for the first time since October 2019, ranking 5th overall. So the June overall number reflects strong sales on XBox and PlayStation, where the title hit 3rd and 7th position respectively.Īs for why Overwatch jumped in June, the following was noted: I used to compare/contrast NPD and SuperData to demonstrate how their collection methods yielded very different results. As I often noted back in the SuperData Research era, their numbers are US only, heavily influenced by physical retail sales, with only some digital sales being counted, and very console platform focused, as well as focusing only on “Premium” games, whatever that means. June 2022 – NPD’s Top 20 US Video Games by Revenue NPD put out their June sales numbers and Overwatch jumped up to fifth place in sales according to their numbers. They are finally achieving parity with a 2003 title! And now, two and a half years after it launched, the game finally has ranked play and leader boards.

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At launch it lacked critical feature parity, contained onerous new agreement to make sure nobody would create another DOTA mod that Blizzard didn’t fully own, and forced all owners of the original title to upgrade to the new version, basically stealing functionality from their installed base.īlizzard acknowledged their complete screw up by offering a no questions asked refund policy for those of us who pre-ordered a copy before it was clear what a fiasco the whole thing was.īut Blizz didn’t kill the project.

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Maybe? The early 2020 launch of Warcraft III Reforged was a master class in how to piss off the core audience for your nostalgia focused project.

Warcraft III Reforged Might Be Finally Ready.

And, second, the Prime Gaming give-aways tend to be the domain of free to play titles, with League of Legends and World of Tanks/Warships often in the lineup, along with online games without a subscription fee, like Grand Theft Auto V Online. I found this worth noting because, first, it is not something Blizz has done before with WoW.

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But now I can own all three for free I guess. I remember these landing in the shop and thinking they were garbage and I would never buy them. Two out of three of those are literally vying for the ugliest head transmog items ever in my book, and the third only excels in comparison to the other two. So now, if you are an Amazon Prime subscriber and you go to Prime Gaming, you can get some free transmog items over the next few weeks. I brought this up somewhere else, but I figured it deserved a mention on Speaking of needing WoW to perform, Blizz is pushing promotions for the game as well. I have opinions about “more” being “better” and “n+1” being able to increase output in any sort of predictable, linear fashion, but if you have the budget and some patience, you can make something happen.

Blizz Spending Money on Making More DevelopersĪlso announced was Blizzard’s plan to spend some of its $250 million diversity fund to start a 12-week program called Level Up U with a goal of creating more full-time game developers.Īs with the above item, this is no doubt related to Blizzard’s desire to increase content output in order to sustain its bottom line.

In a no-doubt related story, Spellbreak will be shutting down. Diablo II Resurrected is a prime example of that. Even Ybarra said in that LA Times interview that Blizzard needs to increase their content output, and Blizzard has had success with groups outside of Irvine reviving their products. Blizzard has bought them to boost the workforce focused on developing content for World of Warcraft.īlizz needs WoW to perform, because even Diablo Immortal bringing in a million dollars a day doesn’t match Azeroth’s ability to bring in a billion dollars annually as recently as 2020. Proletariat is/was an independent game studio that produced the title Spellbreak. The proles will now be a wholly owned subsidiary of Blizzard, which is an oddly appropriate frame for the company’s labor relations. It will just take a minute of play to show youĪnyway, this did not cement much credibility for the head of Blizzard with those who know the truth… but it is always spin and disinformation that wins with those unfamiliar with the situation.

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