Overwatch Twitch streamers flock to Apex Legends amid content drought Blizzard Entertainment\/RespawnMany of Overwatch\u2019s top Twitch streamers are jumping ship to Apex Legends, citing a lack of new content in Blizzard\u2019s hero-based FPS as the reason for their departure. While many of the big Overwatch streamers do still play the game, as that\u2019s how they grew their audience to begin with, Apex has become a major part of their routine in recent weeks. Events \u2013 Overwatch\u2019s big content drops throughout the years \u2013 have gotten stale over time, as the only new additions to them have been skins and other cosmetics while the modes haven\u2019t evolved. For instance, for the second year in a row, the Archives event disappointed, as it only featured the same three missions in basically their original iterations without adding anything new aside from cosmetics. Additionally, the game\u2019s latest hero, Echo, was released back on April 14, 2020 and no new characters or competitive maps have been added to the game since. Meanwhile, Apex Legends has been continuously pumping out new content and characters. Now, with Season 9 making headlines, the gap between the two games in terms of audience investment has widened immensely. Over on Twitter, streamer Gale Adelade posted a side-by-side of Apex and Overwatch\u2019s Twitch viewership showing a mere 7.9K people watching the latter \u2013 while over 170K were tuned into Apex Legends. Hey Blizzard, can we get what they’re getting? Content is pretty Pog ya know? pic.twitter.com\/yF1f0pvO0G \u2014 Gale (@Gale_Adelade) May 5, 2021 \u201cHey Blizzard, can we get what they\u2019re getting? Content is pretty Pog ya know?\u201d he sarcastically captioned the post. Read More: Best Legends to use in Apex Legends Season 9 – Others have made it very obvious that Overwatch\u2019s lack of content is why they\u2019re streaming Apex so often. Top 500 tank player Flats mocked \u201cplaying game with new content\u201d to advertise his Apex stream on Twitter. Fran, one of the most popular female Overwatch streamers, started posting Apex Legends videos to her YouTube channel. The same can be said for Stylosa at Unit Lost, who has started uploading more Apex videos despite being an Overwatch YouTuber. With Overwatch 2 still in development and no release date set, this trend could very well continue going forward. Blizzard didn\u2019t reveal that many new details about the game at BlizzCon aside from some new maps, so fans have been in the dark for quite some time. That said, Overwatch\u2019s new Game Director Aaron Keller has teased large new features will be coming to the game soon, but didn\u2019t share what these new features and systems would be. https:\/\/twitter.com\/FRANA_OW\/status\/1389248386579279876 One possibility is a supposed clan system that was actually leaked at BlizzCon, but it\u2019s unclear if that is a feature coming to Overwatch 2 or the base game. In any case, we\u2019ll have to see if they\u2019re big enough to keep more of the game\u2019s top streamers from jumping ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Overwatch Twitch streamers flock to Apex Legends amid content drought Blizzard Entertainment\/RespawnMany of Overwatch\u2019s top Twitch streamers are jumping ship to Apex Legends, citing a lack of new content in Blizzard\u2019s hero-based FPS as the reason for their departure. While many of the big Overwatch streamers do still play the game, as that\u2019s how they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}