I haven’t stopped playing Overwatch since it came out, still getting on with friends 2 or 3 nights a week and putting in a few hours (and I’m still awful lol). I also still log on to Battlefield 1943 from time to time to get in a few matches.
I also collect retro games so there is a good bit of time there. If anything I’ve struggled to find new games that I’d want to play more than something older and cheaper. I just picked up Dark Messiah for like 2 bucks and its amazing, hard to justify a $60-70 purchase when you can find deals like that on older but still great games.
I saw a lot of the playtime goes to still updated online games like Fortnite and Apex, but I wonder if part of it is that as time goes on there is a bigger pool of games to play. Sure there will always be cutting edge graphics and gameplay, but many people wouldnt be able to tell which indie dropped in 2010 and which dropped in 2024.
How are you still playing Overwatch? They shut it down when 2 came out, I thought. I no longer have it in my library even.
They can stick a 2 on it if they want, but the ingame play timer never reset, going from 6v6 to 5v5 isn’t such a big change to say its a sequel imo. Everything that was going to make 2 “2” was canceled. The large majority of characters, levels, cosmetics, modes, etc etc is the exact same. They just needed an excuse to start charging for skins. Blizzard sucks but its what the people I talk to play so its what I play.
Also not sure why it isnt in your library, but part of the “2” change was going free to play, so you can always redownload it. Unless you are saying OG Overwatch is gone and OW2 is there now, in which case yes they just updated the first game, there is no new game.