Destiny 2 Hits Over 350K Twitch Viewers During Witch Queen Raid Race
The highly anticipated release of the Witch Queen raid for Destiny 2's newest expansion has arrived, kicking off Saturday morning. The worldwide launch ensured that Fireteams from every region would be able to join in on the race to complete the Witch Queen's Vow of the Disciple raid. Those not participating would be able to watch the Destiny 2 raid race on Twitch, and they certainly are. Early metrics show that over 350,000 Destiny 2 fans have been watching streamers take on the Witch Queen's forces.
According to Twitch's own publicly-shared viewer totals, Destiny 2 peaked at over 360,000 viewers. It's an incredible peak in viewership that the MMO shooter hasn't seen in two years. The top Destiny 2 streamer for the race is the always popular Datto, who has over 100,000 viewers on Twitch just by himself. Gladd is the next most popular Twitch streamer with over 45,000. Then Sweatcicle, ProfessorBroman's Tailgate stream, and Aztecross all have well over 10,000 each. Around 20 channels in total have over 1,000 viewers.
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The race itself is certainly intense, but has also struggled out of the gate. Destiny 2 raiders have been met with lag, performance issues, and in some cases game-closing error codes. Bungie's investigating the errors, but in the meantime it is deprioritizing Destiny 2 traffic unrelated to the new expansion and season. Regardless, many of the world's top raiding teams are seeing players drop randomly, which makes tracking progress difficult.
What's known is that teams led by Datto, Slayerage, Epicdan22, and Ninjy are all making progress. ExBlack, however, may be in the lead, having defeated the Caretaker encounter. Three hours in and there is still no winner,
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