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[jediyoshi]

UPDATE: Overwatch overtakes League of Legends as Korean net cafes' most popular game

-After 46 months, there's a new king in town

What a fucking streak for League

Good for Blizz

 

[Toxi]

UPDATE: Overwatch overtakes League of Legends as Korean net cafes' most popular game

-After 46 months, there's a new king in town

Jesus. We have a new king.

 

[Bear Force One]

UPDATE: Overwatch overtakes League of Legends as Korean net cafes' most popular game

-After 46 months, there's a new king in town

Proper.

 

[Storm Raider]

Deserves it.

Overwatch is just soooooo good. So close to a literal 10/10 game. A few tweaks could make that happen.

 

[spindashing]

UPDATE: Overwatch overtakes League of Legends as Korean net cafes' most popular game

-After 46 months, there's a new king in town

Yooooooo, kill 'em.

 

[Kayo Police]

So will they finally be able to break the trend and actually be competitive in Pro FPS games?

 

[Blues1990]

That's nice, but what about the Chinese knockoff?

 

[Horsemama1956]

Does Korea even matter now? 15 years ago when esports was nothing maybe, but it's global now.

Also a lot of "casual" gamers I know will play LoL, WoW, Overwatch, D3 etc all at the same time.

 

[PeskyToaster]

it would suck to have to go somewhere to play games.

 

[Newtype-001]

UPDATE: Overwatch overtakes League of Legends as Korean net cafes' most popular game

-After 46 months, there's a new king in town

Boom boom

 

[Trickster]

Guess this will be a game dominated by pro korean players.

 

[Dead Prince]

UPDATE: Overwatch overtakes League of Legends as Korean net cafes' most popular game

-After 46 months, there's a new king in town

Mei putting in work.

 

[MutFox]

Guess this will be a game dominated by pro korean players.

I don't think so, unless Korea suddenly gets really good at FPS games.

 

[elohel]

League of Legends to introduce first person mode in 2017.

True or?

 

[galvenize]

I don't think so, unless Korea suddenly gets really good at FPS games.

Lunatic Hai was a very strong korean CS 1.6 team back in the day.

 

[anothertech]

Haha! I've literally been seeing multiple Korean gamers in my late nite play sessions recently. This is why Gratz Overwatch!

 

[Rizific]

Mei putting in work.

Pretty sure Mei is Chinese. D.va is Korean.
^-^

 

[Crono27]

all because of d.va

 

[FallingEdge]

what about battleborn tho?

 

[jediyoshi]

Pretty sure Mei is Chinese. D.va is Korean.
^-^

Winky face.

 

[mochi~]

IS THIS..EZ MODE
-d.va

 

[Dreavus]

Wow. I would imagine the game lends itself well to that kind of setting. You don't get locked into a game for more than 10 minutes and FPS games are super fun at LANs.

I've been trapped in bit of a Blizzard vortex lately. Getting back into HotS, getting into Starcraft 2 co-op, Hearthstone here and there, a bunch of Overwatch. Got to silver season portrait in D3.

They've built up a pretty diverse little catalogue.

 

[ZoddGutts]

This game gets ads on TV too in Korea.

 

[GraveHorizon]

all because of d.va

Is there a list of most-played characters by country?

 

[Dead Prince]

Pretty sure Mei is Chinese. D.va is Korean.
^-^

sorry sorry I'm sorry sorry

 

[Soyongdori]

This game gets ads on TV too in Korea.

Naturally. It's Blizz game after all.

 

[fader]

I dont get it. Why is this game so huge there?

I don't really remember South Korea having a long history of FPS

 

[Onemic]

I said before the game officicially launched that it would become a top 5 mainstay on Twitch. This just further proves that Overwatch's current sreaming numbers are no fluke

 

[Moonkid]

My dad was telling me how the game was a hit in Korea the other night when he saw me playing, guess this is one part of that.

 

[Apathy]

I dont get it. Why is this game so huge there?

I don't really remember South Korea having a long history of FPS

Cause d.va is a Korean bae.

 

[Zocano]

I've been wondering and waiting to see how Riot handles decline or waning interest in their game. I mean I don't think any game can sustain super popularity indefinitely and I've always had the impression that Riot Games is incredibly bloated as far as a studio goes.

 

[Pendas]

I always thought of it as a form of arcades for them.

In a lot of places.. living inside a Cafe is cheaper than living inside a home.

 

[PSqueak]

League of Legends to introduce first person mode in 2017.

Riot To anounce LoL spinoff "League of Legends: Defenders of Piltover" where everybody has guns and technological enhancements and it's played as FPS.

Expect Blitzcrank to always be the MVP of any given match.

 

[Apathy]

Riot To anounce LoL spinoff "League of Legends: Defenders of Piltover" where everybody has guns and technological enhancements and it's played as FPS.

Expect Blitzcrank to always be the MVP of any given match.

Will they also release a card game that taps into the deep LoL lore?

 

[Xyphie]

I dont get it. Why is this game so huge there?

I don't really remember South Korea having a long history of FPS

It's just not the same FPS games as in the West. Sudden Attack (a CS clone essentially) has been hugely popular for years.

 

[poodpick]

It's just not the same FPS games as in the West. Sudden Attack (a CS clone essentially) has been hugely popular for years.

Not to mention that they had an elite cs 1.6 team that won an international event over SK.

 

[Animator]

Is there a list of most-played characters by country?

I think the most time played is some Chinese dude who is lvl 450+ and only played D.va.

 

[Quonny]

Another update: League of Legends has overtaken Overwatch.

A month ago the gap was over 8% and it looked like Overwatch was gonna run away with it. Seems like Korea has been falling off the game fairly rapidly.

 

[LordofPwn]

Another update: League of Legends has overtaken Overwatch.

A month ago the gap was over 8% and it looked like Overwatch was gonna run away with it. Seems like Korea has been falling off the game fairly rapidly.

season 2 of competitive Overwatch starts next week iirc so i'd expect Overwatch to retake the lead.

 

[pretty done]

Not to mention that they had an elite cs 1.6 team that won an international event over SK.

solo still plays CS:GO too, it's just a shame his entire country is more interested in these lesser FPS games.

 

[Ploid 3.0]

Valve got DOTA and now Blizzard has Overwatch. Changing of the guards. I doubt Valve minds that though, DOTA2 is killing with the money, and TF2 is still getting a lot of players, and it's free.

 

[jasminlovesyoux]

Valve got DOTA and now Blizzard has Overwatch. Changing of the guards. I doubt Valve minds that though, DOTA2 is killing with the money, and TF2 is still getting a lot of players, and it's free.

Is pretty funny when you look at it that way

 

[maouvin]

Another update: League of Legends has overtaken Overwatch.

A month ago the gap was over 8% and it looked like Overwatch was gonna run away with it. Seems like Korea has been falling off the game fairly rapidly.

Obviously they got absolutely disgusted with the Sombra ARG and went back do LoL.

 

[Chezzymann]

The ultimate dream is a place that merges PC cafes and arcades into one amazing place.

Had one near me in Houston called 4 Gaming. It was great, but required to pay by the hour and went under after a few years.

 

[Defuser]

Wait till Sombra is revealed. Then Overwatch will be back to first place.

 

[KTO]

Wait till Sombra is revealed. Then Overwatch will be back to first place.

I don't know if that will fix it. I'm level 126 and I don't know what % of players that puts me in but the game feels stale af to me and will probably move on when roi drops on the 20th.

 

[Archie]

Overwatch is back at #1

People were just waiting for season 2.

 

[CadetMahoney]

Given the same population density problems and society standards, if Japan was as into PC gaming as Korea was, there'd be PC Bangs all over the country instead of arcades.

Why do they call it bang?

Don't bang me bro.

 

[jdstorm]

The ultimate dream is a place that merges PC cafes and arcades into one amazing place.

In Sydney near the George ST Cinemas there used to be a web cafe that was directly under an arcade