Coming off the open beta period where over 9.7 million players in total played across consoles and PC, Blizzard shared even more information highlighting the beta’s big success as players from over 190 countries worldwide began their watch with the new title.
Blizzard’s highly-anticipated team shooter Overwatch is just a few days away from release, and while many around the world are preparing for launch, Blizzard has shared some new information during the game’s open beta period and plenty of big numbers that correlate to its big success so far.
In total during the beta period, players tallied up 4.9 billion minutes (or 9,380 years) of playtime, and a total of 37,623,607 completed matches.
Blizzard also shared the top-picked heroes during the open beta period from each class, with Soldier: 76 (Offense), Widowmaker (Defense), Reinhardt (Tank), and Mercy (Support) each coming out top of the class in their respective categories.