The race for the world’s first completion of the Witch Queen raid in Destiny 2 has surpassed 350,000 Twitch viewers and is still growing.
The Witch Queen raid for Destiny 2’s newest expansion has finally arrived, and it will begin on Saturday morning. The global launch ensured that Fireteams from all over the world could compete to finish the Witch Queen’s Vow of the Disciple raid. Those who are not participating can watch the Destiny 2 raid race on Twitch, and they are. Destiny 2’s 350,000 fans have been watching content creators take on the Witch Queen’s forces.
Destiny 2 had over 360,000 viewers, according to Twitch’s own publicly shared viewer numbers. It’s the highest level of viewership the MMO shooter has seen in over two years. The said race’s top Destiny 2 streamer Datto, who has over 100,000 Twitch viewers on his own. With over 45,000 followers on Twitch, Gladd is the next most popular streamer. Sweatcicle, ProfessorBroman‘s Tailgate stream, and Aztecross, all have well over 10,000 followers. A total of 20 channels have over 1,000 viewers.
The said race itself is exciting, but it struggled to get off to a good start. Raiders in Destiny 2 have reported lag, performance issues, and even game-closing error codes.
Bungie is looking into the issues, but in the meantime, it’s lowering the priority of Destiny 2 traffic that isn’t related to the new expansion or season. Regardless, many of the world’s best raiding teams are seeing players drop at random, making it difficult to track progress.
What is known is that Datto‘s, Slayerage’s, Epicdan22’s, and Ninjy’s teams are all progressing. ExBlack may be in the lead after defeating the Caretaker. Even after three hours, there is still no winner. Some are already comparing the difficulty of the Vow of the Disciple raid to that of The Last Wish, but it’s probably too early to make any definitive comparisons.
Since November 22, 2020, the Vow of the Disciple raid race has had the highest Twitch viewership for Destiny 2. Bungie released Deep Stone Crypt, the first raid for its Beyond Light expansion, at that time. On Twitch, the raid drew around 400,000 viewers. The most popular moment in Destiny 2 was, ironically, prior to its release. In May 2017, the Destiny 2 Gameplay Premiere attracted 465,000 viewers.
Viewers on Twitch aren’t always a good metric for determining success, but Bungie will undoubtedly be pleased that a four-and-a-half-year-old game was able to attra0ct such a large audience for the launch of its new expansion’s raid.
Twitch viewership’s term is Destiny 2’s second-most popular raid launch. It’s still there in Destiny 2.