Over 8 billion game hours were spent with Blizzard in 2024

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Blizzard Entertainment's President shares some light-hearted statistics from her first year at the helm

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[Lurking_Lurker_Lurks]

I am really interested to see what Xbox does with Battle Net moving forward. My standard hope is that they bring Xbox Play Anywhere to the app. Cloud saves, Xbox achievements, and cross purchases across the board for the games on battle net would be amazing. Especially if Microsoft is going to continue to make their entire first party library available across both Battle net and the Xbox App (though the really gotta finesse the cross store experience to justify having both). I'm not against both platforms on PC feeling like a first party experience so long as they nail their integration. After Avowed, I'd really like to see Doom Dark Ages on Battle Net. That'd fit right in between COD and Diablo.

 

[fjtorres5591]

Fun with math: 8.37 billion game hours for a full year equals 23M player hours daily. That is not outrageous but quite good in a world of dozens and dozens of active live service games. Are we up to a hundred yet? Two hundred?

Keeping that many players engaged that long in that environment is worth crowing about. But it also points at the challenges newcomers face, trying to get in.

It also points out that WOW *needs* to come to console.