{"id":4948,"date":"2022-04-28T08:34:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T08:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/uncategorized\/overwatch-2-beta-viewership-breaks-records-but-draws-criticism\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T09:20:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T09:20:10","slug":"overwatch-2-beta-viewership-breaks-records-but-draws-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/overwatch\/overwatch-2-beta-viewership-breaks-records-but-draws-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch 2 Beta viewership breaks records, but draws criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Overwatch 2 Beta viewership has just broken the previous record for the game on Twitch! Within two hours of the beta becoming public, the game had 469,000 viewers. This is quite a bit above the game\u2019s prior records. Overwatch has an okay following on Twitch, with some content creators and former pros regularly streaming. However, it rarely tops the charts in terms of viewers, even with big events going on. It has especially dropped off recently as the first game was left unchanged for a while.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/overwatch-2-beta-viewership-breaks-record\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Overwatch 2 Beta has recently come out of its closed phase, and players are now free to play it. Content creators started broadcasting the game to massive interest as fans are getting a good look at the game. The title has been a bit of a hit on Twitch, probably thanks in no small part to the introduction of Twitch drops for beta access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[75],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4950,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions\/4950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}