The market seemed to agree that OW1 was a good game. It had a good player count and looked like it made decent money. Until the end of 2019, when Activision/Blizzard decided to basically halt all work on OW1 in favor of work on OW2. It didn't help that Blizzard also moved all esports content (which they consolidated under their hat) from Twitch to Youtube at about the same time.
