Overwatch is So Popular its Subreddit Had More Views Than Reddit’s Front Page

Overwatch is proving to be a very popular video game. Not only is it receiving great reviews across the board – including our own, which you can read right here – but it’s also getting a lot of people talking. So much so, in fact, that not only was Overwatch a major trending topic on the day of its release, but for a brief period of time the Overwatch subreddit managed to overtake the view count of Reddit’s front page. 

The subreddit, which currently has over 263,000 subscribers, saw a massive increase in interest during the day of the game’s launch, with it managing to achieve over 80,000 concurrent pageviews for a sustained period of time, besting the Reddit front page’s 60,000.

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The data was revealed by Reddit employee Justin Bassett, who stated on Twitter that the Overwatch subreddit beat out the Reddit front page for 17 minutes, with the subreddit’s top-rated post during this time period also having made its way to the top of r/all. Bassett remarked that this post was one of three times he had seen a post climb the site’s rankings so quickly, comparing it to Reddit’s Obama and Psy Ask me Anything sessions. 

Check out the data in the graph below:

 

According to Bassett, the time in which Overwatch managed to surpass the page views of Reddit’s front page coincided with  its servers officially going online, with developer Blizzard momentarily struggling to keep up with the high level of players trying to access the game. However, these issues were eventually ironed out by Blizzard, with the game enjoying a very stable launch outside of these initial teething issues.

Though Overwatch‘s sales data has yet to be revealed, given the incredibly positive reception to the FPS it seems likely that it will exceed expectations in this department. Considering that this is Blizzard’s first foray into the genre, the publisher will no doubt be very pleased with its success.


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