As the exhibition progresses, the popularity of "Overwatch" continues to ferment.

Many of the gaming media were present at the show, and all of them took note of the new game "Overwatch", which was the most eye-catching at the show.

After the baptism of the phenomenal game "League of Legends", the media are no longer surprised by what Chen Mo does, and Chen Mo's attention to "Overwatch" has made these game media smell the smell of big news.

Although only the training mode and man-machine battles were opened at the exhibition, and no one knew what it was like to play against players in Overwatch, but judging from the information that has flowed out so far, this game is attractive enough.

The attention of the game media is mainly focused on the world view, hero setting and gameplay innovation of "Overwatch".

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After this period of fermentation, whether it is the hot discussion of players, the release of the media or the outflow of some related video materials, more and more players have begun to know about this new VR game "Overwatch".

Of course, the huge gimmick of "free VR games" also played a great role in publicity, which can be said to be indispensable.

The game circle, which was originally a little silent before the Spring Festival, was instantly detonated, and Chen Mo launched such a key VR game at this time, which surprised everyone.

With the eagerness of players, Overwatch is officially launched!

It was just the right time, not long after the YouPlay Game Show ended, the heat hadn't completely subsided, and it was exactly a week before the Game of the Year Awards held by the gaming committee.

Many players have been waiting impatiently, and as soon as Overwatch was officially launched, players all downloaded it one after another.

After all, it's a free game, so let's talk about it first!

On the day of the launch of "Overwatch", a wave of downloads was set off in the domestic VR gamer group, whether it is a player of Thunder Mutual Entertainment, whether it is an FPS gamer or not, whether you have understood the specific situation of this game or not, as long as you know "Overwatch" and know that it is a free game, they all ran to download it, and happily added one to their VR game cabin.

Free to play, if you don't play it, you can lose money!

Soon, the first-day downloads of Overwatch came out, and it managed to exceed 400,000!

This data also shocked all the people in the industry, and many people sighed that free games are capricious!

You must know that in terms of the current situation in China, there are more than 1.3 billion mobile phone users, about 500 million PC users, and only about 100 million VR users.

That is, VR games are played by one-fifth of PC players.

Prior to this, the highest monthly sales of domestic VR games were also maintained by Chen Mo, with 4.22 million in "Minecraft". This is the second month of sales of the VR version of Minecraft, which peaked in the second month of its launch due to the game's relatively slow heat, and then gradually declined and stabilized.

Before the launch of "League of Legends" on the PC side, after so much promotion and publicity, only 390,000 players landed on the first day.

The number of players on the first day of Overwatch's launch surpassed that of Minecraft and League of Legends, which many people did not expect.

Of course, this comparison is not very fair, because "Minecraft" has a fee threshold after all, and it is a relatively slow game, so it is impossible to become popular all at once. Comparing the number of downloads of a free game with a buyout game is a bit like playing hooligan.

At the beginning of the launch of "League of Legends", it was not particularly optimistic, and the number of players only grew explosively in the middle and late stages.

From the picture, 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 beginning, so it was normal for there to be fewer players on the first day.

If you look at the current data, the number of players of "League of Legends" is growing wildly every day, and it has successfully exceeded 10 million in the first year of its launch, if you compare it with the current "League of Legends", "Overwatch", which has 400,000 downloads in a single day, is not a figure worth boasting about.

Although the first-day downloads of "Overwatch" are blessed by the gimmick of "free games", the data cannot be infinitely inflated, after all, the time is relatively rushed, and Chen Mo did not spend too many resources to promote it.

However, Chen Mo is confident that after the launch of "Overwatch", this strong growth momentum will continue to be maintained.

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The first-day sales data of "Overwatch" made a large number of game designers red-eyed, obviously, Chen Mo's VR game is popular, at least there are enough players, and there is enough topicality.

However, it's too early to say that the game was a success.

After all, this is a free game, the number of downloads does not mean anything, there are many people who follow the trend to download, for the "free" gimmick, it is likely to play two hands and not play, it is impossible to convert into core players, let alone recharge in the game.

Whether Overwatch can recover its 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" is probably still cool, after all, as a VR game, its investment is much higher than that of PC games, and if it can't recover the cost, it will completely become a loss of money.

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After downloading Overwatch, players can't wait to get into the experience.

In a certain group of FPS gamers.

"Overwatch is available for download today, can anyone team up to play it?"

"Is that the free VR game I mentioned earlier? Open for download today? ”

"Very good, I've been waiting for a long time, let's go decisively!"

"Free? Which bigwig is so generous that VR games dare to play for free? ”

"Who else can there be, Chen Mo."

"Sure enough, as long as there is a game designer in China who makes trouble, his first reaction is him."

"He's finally starting to do FPS games! I thought before, Chen Mo is really a game design genius, making mobile games and PC games one by one, when will I do FPS? It turned out to be a wait, faster than I expected! ”

"Hurry up, the game says go! What is Everyone's Thunder Game Pass? Hurry up and add a wave of friends! ”