Over 8 billion game hours were spent with Blizzard in 2024

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Hearthstone and Diablo

Hearthstone lives on, with players flexing their Murloc minions aplomb.

Then Overwatch boasts over 203 years played in-game hours combined over the new Clash maps.

Fans queue at booths for Diablo 4 and Diablo Immortal at Gamescom 2024

Johanna Faries joined Blizzard Entertainment in January of this year.

“As I approach my first full year with Blizzard, I am filled with deep gratitude and inspiration.

“As for me?

Blizzard Entertainment 2024 YTD Stats: Players logged 8.34 billion hours—equal to 952,055 years or walking around the Earth 1 million times! On Battle.net, over 378 million messages were sent—reading them all (5 seconds each) would take 60 years non-stop!

I’m personally hoping that means another Diablo 4 expansion and moreBlizzard games on Xbox Game Pass!

Blizzard Entertainment infographic: Warcraft 2024 Highlights. WoW: Players have slain over 4.5 billion Spiders and Nerubians—together, they’d weigh as much as a 100,000lb blue whale! Rumble: Over 400 million Cenarion family minis played—that’s one for every 1,000 trees in the Amazon rainforest!"

Blizzard Entertainment infographic showing: Hearthstone: Over 4 billion Murloc minions played in Battlegrounds this year—more than the combined population of the US, China, India, and all of Europe. MRGLMRGL! Diablo IV: Players have slain over 1.7 trillion demons—that’s nearly as many as the total number of honeybees on Earth!

Blizzard Entertainment infographic showing Diablo Immortal: 480 million player deaths—stacked as smartphones, they’d form a 3,700-kilometer tower, reaching the edge of Earth’s atmosphere! Overwatch: Players have spent over 203 years on 2024’s new Clash maps, Hanaoka and Throne of Anubis—that’s enough time to fly to Neptune and back 8 times!