For its new start, Overwatch has got more than 165,000 simultenous players on Steam

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For its new start, Overwatch has got more than 165,000 simultenous players on Steam

Overwatch 2 is dead, long live Overwatch! This Tuesday, February 10, Blizzard completely revamped its game with Season 1, which adds five new heroes. It turns out that players have responded enthusiastically to this new start.

On Steam, the previous record was 75,608 people connected simultaneously. Now, that total has more than doubled, with 165,651 players connected to Overwatch at the same time. Queues also appeared when it was time to play.

Source: steamdb.info

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