As the exhibition progressed, the popularity of "Overwatch" continued to ferment.
Many game media were present at this exhibition, and they all noticed the most eye-catching new game "Overwatch" at this exhibition.
After being baptized by the phenomenon-level game "League of Legends", the media are no longer surprised by what Chen Mo does, and the importance Chen Mo attaches to "Overwatch" is what makes these game media We all smell the big news.
Although only the training mode and man-machine battles were opened at the exhibition, everyone did not know what it was like to play against players in "Overwatch", but just judging from the information that has flowed out so far, this game is already attractive enough people.
The eyes of the game media are mainly focused on the world view, hero setting and gameplay innovation of "Overwatch".
"Xinyou Express: Take a look directly at Chen Mo's new work, the vr shooting game Overwatch! "
"Chen Mo: Overwatch will be a free vr game! "
"Appreciation of Overwatch Heroes: Prototypes are drawn from different countries and regions around the world"
"Fps with skills? Can Overwatch continue the success of League of Legends? "
"The Most Popular Overwatch Heroes at the Show: Analysis of Flying Pharah's Full Skills"
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After this period of fermentation, more and more players have begun to know about this brand new vr game "Overwatch", whether it's hot discussions among players, press releases, or the outflow of some related video materials.
Of course, the huge gimmick of "free vr games" also played a big role in publicity, which can be said to be indispensable.
Before the Spring Festival, the game circle that had been somewhat quiet was detonated in an instant. Chen Mo released such a crucial vr game at this time, which surprised everyone.
With the eager anticipation of players, "Overwatch" is officially launched!
The timing was just right, it happened not long after the YouPlay game exhibition ended and the heat had not completely subsided, and it happened to be a week before the annual game awards ceremony held by the Games Committee.
Many players were impatient to wait. The first time "Overwatch" was officially launched, players all downloaded it one after another.
After all, it's a free game, so let's talk about whether it's fun or not!
On the day "Overwatch" was launched, there was a wave of downloading among domestic vr game players, no matter if they were Thunder Huyu players or not, whether they were FPS game players or not, no matter whether they knew the specifics of this game or not , As long as you know "Overwatch" and know that it is a free game, you all go to download it, and happily add one to your vr game cabin.
Free games, if you don't play, you lose money!
Soon, the download volume of "Overwatch" on the first day came out, successfully breaking through 400,000!
This statistic also shocked many people in the industry. Many people lamented that free games are self-willed!
You know, based on the current domestic situation, there are more than 1.3 billion mobile phone users, about 500 million PC users, and only about 100 million VR users.
In other words, the players of VR games are one-fifth of PC players.
Prior to this, the highest monthly sales of domestic vr games was also maintained by Chen Mo, "Minecraft" 4.22 million. This is the sales volume of the vr version of "Minecraft" in the second month of its launch. Due to the relatively slow popularity of this game, the sales peaked in the second month of its launch, and then the sales gradually declined and stabilized.
Before "League of Legends" was launched on the PC side, after so many promotions and publicity, there were only 390,000 players who logged in on the first day.
The number of players on the first day of "Watching Pioneer" surpassed "Minecraft" and "League of Legends", which was unexpected by many people.
Of course, such a comparison is not fair, because "Minecraft" has a fee threshold after all, and it is a relatively slow-growing game, and the popularity cannot suddenly become popular. Comparing the downloads of free games with buyout games is a bit like playing hooligans.
However, "League of Legends" was not particularly optimistic at the beginning of its launch, and the number of players only experienced explosive growth in the middle and late stages.
From the screen, when "League of Legends" was first launched, it had no special advantages compared to other games on the market, and the moba gameplay was not recognized by most players at the very beginning, so there were few players on the first day It's normal.
Judging from the current data, the number of players of "League of Legends" is growing crazily every day, and it has successfully exceeded 10 million in one year after its launch. 400,000 downloads is nothing to brag about.
Although the downloads of "Overwatch" on the first day were blessed by the "free game" gimmick, the data cannot expand without limit. After all, the time is relatively short, and Chen Mo didn't spend too much resources to promote it.
However, Chen Mo is confident that after the launch of "Overwatch", this strong growth momentum will continue.
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The first-day sales data of "Overwatch" made a large number of game designers jealous. Obviously, Chen Mo's vr game is popular, at least it has enough players and enough topicality.
Still, it's too early to say the game is a success.
After all, this is a free game, and the number of downloads does not mean anything. Many people follow the trend and download it for the "free" gimmick. It is even more impossible to recharge in the game.
Whether "Overwatch" can recover the cost depends on two factors, one is the long-term retention rate of players, and the other is the payment data of players.
As long as one of these two data is not good, then "Overwatch" will probably be cool. After all, as a VR game, its investment is much higher than that of PC games. .
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After downloading "Overwatch", players can't wait to enter the game experience.
In a group of fps game players.
""Overwatch" is open for download today, does anyone have a team to play it?"
"Is that the free vr game you mentioned before? Open for download today?"
"Very good, I have been waiting for a long time, let's go decisively!"
"For free? Which boss is so generous, dare to play vr games for free?"
"Who else is there, Chen Mo?"
"Sure enough, as long as there are game designers in China who make trouble, the first reaction is him."
"He finally started to make fps games! Before, I thought, this guy Chen Mo is really a game design genius. He makes mobile games and PC games one by one. When will he make fps games? It turned out that he really waited. , faster than I imagined!"
"Hurry up, let's talk in the game! How much is everyone's Thunder game pass? Hurry up and add a wave of friends!"