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[Hasney]

The game will not bomb!

I wouldn't count on it. Depends how many of those 2 million liked it and it seems very divisive at best.

Surprised it was so low though. almost every YT video and football match last weekend had an ad telling you to download the beta.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Not quite as high as some of our other new IPs, but not bad.

The Division: 6.4 million (Fastest selling new IP of all time.)
Destiny: 4.6 million (Second fastest selling new IP of all time.)
Battleborn: 2 million

Wait; I thought Ubisoft had stated that The Division was the second fastest selling new IP?

 

[Guymelef]

This game is going to bomb.

Good question. The beta wasn't even on my hard drive but I still got an email thanking me for my participation.

Same here.

 

[Turin Turambar]

Should I buy battleborn if I'm getting overwatch?

Maybe? You should have tried the open beta.

 

[Warxard]

I'm buying it. Meltdown is my favorite gametype and I enjoy the characters. PC version for me.

 

[OfTheOverflow]

Battlewatch looking to kill each other like Blur and Split Second.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Battlewatch looking to kill each other like Blur and Split Second.

Overwatch will curbstomp Battleborn. I don't anticipate any other outcome.

 

[Moozo]

This game is being pretty heavily advertised in the UK. Keep seeing a lot of TV spots

 

[Warxard]

Battlewatch looking to kill each other like Blur and Split Second.

Blur was always better than S/S to me in the end.

I actually think that both Battleborn and Overwatch will perform about the same. (Pretty well.). 2K marketing is strong.

 

[Gurish]

I thought it was a good number until I've seen The Division statistic... That thing is a monster.

 

[nortonff]

I played for 5 minutes.

 

[Nikodemos]

Battlewatch looking to kill each other like Blur and Split Second.

They all look the same to me. Same cartoonish generically aseptic 'zaniness', which I loathe. At least Lawbreakers gets points for being soedji tryhard (hey, effort should be appreciated) and having a lot of verticality (something slowly fading from FPS games ever since gamepads became acceptable as control schemes).

 

[Horns]

I downloaded it and didn't even start it up, but received an email thanking me for playing.

 

[JamesAR15]

Tried it and it was deleted within an hour, was not impressed at all.

 

[QaaQer]

I downloaded it and didn't even start it up, but received an email thanking me for playing.

hehe, I got one too and I only played the first one (jan?).

#s from that gearbox guy might not be super reliable.

 

[Protome]

Downloaded it, played it, cancelled my preorder. I'm glad they had a beta because man i would have been pissed to pay full price for that game.

 

[JetBlackPanda]

I downloaded it and deleted it after 5 mins. Do I count towards the 2 million?

Did you play it? Even 5 mins counts.

You guys are silly.

I think both games can co exist. BB is much more a Moba while overwatch is TF3.

Besides with GCU you can get both games for $90 bucks

 

[Naarmight]

I hope the 2 million did not have the same opinion as me...

I am hoping for much more from Overwatch

 

[GeeTeeCee]

I feel bad that I downloaded the beta and never found the time to play it, as I'm fairly interested to know what it's like. In my defence, it did drop during DS3 week.

 

[shysaursoft]

High numbers don't mean squat without saying how /long/ any of those 2mil played. I barely made it through the first mission before quitting. Felt like a half-baked prototype with reheated Borderlands jokes, wrapped up in a Digipen student's first attempt at 'art style'.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

High numbers don't mean squat without saying how /long/ any of those 2mil played. I barely made it through the first mission before quitting. Felt like a half-baked prototype with reheated Borderlands jokes, wrapped up in a Digipen student's first attempt at 'art style'.

You didn't touch multiplayer?

 

[Justice_Bolt]

For anyone still thinking Overwatch and Battleborn are the same games, there is a good video showing the differences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbysrESU1x4&feature=youtu.be

 

[shysaursoft]

You didn't touch multiplayer?

Nope. Not interested in it's MP. I was primarily checking out the open beta for it's SP and co-op. I've no interest in PvP.

 

[Mossybrew]

Should I buy battleborn if I'm getting overwatch?

I'm getting both.

 

[deoee]

Some more :

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/battleborn-beta-reaches-2-million-players-more-sta/1100-6439093/


Also you can't really compare OW to BB - completely different games outside of the fact that you choose a character and shoot things.

I was very very negative about battleborn but tried the beta. After 2 confused games it really clicked and I constantly wish I could play more.

 

[Baliis]

I never even downloaded the beta, but still got a survey asking for feedback since "You played the beta, now take the survey!".

Yea it makes me question their number quite a bit. I never signed up for a beta, didn't even know there was one, and still got multiple thanks for playing the beta emails. I don't even know how they got my email in the first place.

 

[Nirolak]

Wait; I thought Ubisoft had stated that The Division was the second fastest selling new IP?

That was Watch Dogs after Destiny came out.

 

[Turin Turambar]

Yea it makes me question their number quite a bit. I never signed up for a beta, didn't even know there was one, and still got multiple thanks for playing the beta emails. I don't even know how they got my email in the first place.

From Gamespot

In a blog post today, 2K shared some further statistics about the beta. From April 13-18, players completed 1.1 million competitive multiplayer matches and 1.4 million story mode episodes. Additionally, players collected 27 billion Shards.

So real numbers could be around 750K players.


Of course the same applies to Destiny/The Division/whatever betas. I was in the The Division beta, as I had access... but I never played it.