Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with Overwatch 2

[dazza0511]

I love this, as I want to have my game library all in one place.

https://www.polygon.com/23799285/blizzard-pc-games-steam-overwatch-2-release-date

[Yuriiii_, I'm not Turkish]

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[Tito Shivan]

I read about it yesterday and thought it was a joke from The Onion or another similar site.

No wonder they're bringing OW2 here. The game has been on ICU almost since release (Played OW1 regularly and I've launched OW2 since its release like 2 or 3 times tops) They probably hope dropping it on Steam will bring some of the F2P crowd around here into OW.

veracsthane eredeti hozzászólása:

something devs and steam needs to understand is no one is having kids and most kids that are being born, like it or not, are going to single mothers. they dont have money for this crap anymore when you start asking for 200-300 dollars for a game which some of these games end up at with the dlc. computers arent cheap either. its one of the two big reasons cell phone games are so popular lately and one of the reasons they pushed for diablo immortal to be moble as a fremium.

You really need to review your sources. Like really.

Gaming has been an adult-centric business for years. The average gamer is nowadays around his fourties, with disposable income to spend on the hobby (MTX don't thrive on kids, but on daddy throwing a couple tens every other month on FIFA)

Mailer eredeti hozzászólása:

The very first featured billboard on the store is definitely not how I expected to first learn of Overwatch coming to Steam.

They really can't go boom on the announcement, as they're really announcing just one game for the platform.

OTOH when EA came back to Steam they did it with all the fleet and the big names, not just BF1.

[Lystent]

Tito Shivan eredeti hozzászólása:

... The average gamer is nowadays around his fourties,...

Source?

[Spawn of Totoro]

Lystent eredeti hozzászólása:

Tito Shivan eredeti hozzászólása:

... The average gamer is nowadays around his fourties,...

Source?

https://dataprot.net/statistics/gamer-demographics/

"The average gamer is 35 years old."

https://techjury.net/blog/video-game-demographics/

"The average gamer is 34 years old"

I found others that place the age higher then mid 30s too.

[Lystent]

Spawn of Totoro eredeti hozzászólása:

Lystent eredeti hozzászólása:

Source?

https://dataprot.net/statistics/gamer-demographics/

"The average gamer is 35 years old."

Thankyou. I followed the chain of sources as far as it went, but got no clarity on the scope of that statistic (console+PC? Console only? etc.).

Edit:

Spawn of Totoro eredeti hozzászólása:

...

https://techjury.net/blog/video-game-demographics/

"The average gamer is 34 years old"

I found others that place the age higher then mid 30s too.

So mid-30s to 40s.

[Tito Shivan]

Lystent eredeti hozzászólása:

So mid-30s to 40s.

If you think about it, the 80s were 40 years ago.
The kids who grew up playing Game Watches and Atari games and NES are nowadays the gamer parents (or even grandfathers) of gamer kids.

I know because I'm one of them. Lots of kids these days have grown up with gamer parents. And as much that 'think of the kids' is brought up when talking microtransactions (And I'm totally Ok with keeping kids far from them and I won't miss them gone) they're revenue models built on the fact you have a lot of adults playing who can easily toss a couple tens a month in their hobby, just like they do on drinks or restaurants.

[Lystent]

Tito Shivan eredeti hozzászólása:

... Lots of kids these days have grown up with gamer parents. ...

There is that, with many of their children being gamers as well; but speaking of the children, I wonder if some of these data privacy laws that protect children from data gather at all interfere with the statistics.