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Because despite the bitching it still has a very respectable user base, at least purely looking at the Steam stats:
Do we know it's average playerbase back when it was still overwatch?
No pretty sure it was Battle.net exclusive
That's honestly not that good, when games like CS2 are regularly pulling 2million+.
According to 3rd party websites (that may not have accurate estimates), Overwatch 1 had between 600k-1mil peak concurrent players through a lot of 2020/2021. One of those same websites now says that OW2 had about 140k peak players today when combining all players on all platforms. So it would seem there's been a huge drop in players.
Keep in mind that a large portion of players don't have it installed on Steam and use the Battle.net launcher instead (like me).
Right, that's why the collective play amount is ~140k when the steam daily is only ~30k
Ah, if only I could read more than one sentence at a time...
Also, the game is on consoles too with crossplay
CS2 is top of the pile, there is very little that can fairly be compared to it.
I think Overwatch 1 at it's peak could be compared to CS2.