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Overwatch 2 has gotten off to a rocky start. While plenty of online-only games, especially a free-to-play one, suffer from long queues and server overload upon launch, this one has been particularly bad with the servers suffering two DDoS attacks during its launch period.

Overwatch 2 launched yesterday and users immediately had trouble getting into games. The subreddit is currently full of posts about the connection issues, including an active, pinned technical issues megathread. The problem got so bad that Blizzard President Mike Ybarra Tweeted out a message acknowledging the server issue and thanking fans for their excitement. Just a half hour later, he revealed the issues were (at least partially) due to a DDoS attack on the servers. Eight hours after, Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller reassured fans the problem was being worked on, while revealing that a second DDoS attack was now overwhelming their servers.

Notably, Blizzard shut down servers for the original Overwatch a little over a day before the launch of Overwatch 2, which likely contributed to these issues as original players were forced to the new title. It also leaves them without any alternative while Blizzard irons out the issues with the new game's servers.

 

[ZeroFX]

Nice

 

[trepp0]

L overwatch 2. Overwatch one was shit, but better than whatever this is.

 

[Cris1997XX]

Good, Activision Blizzard deserves it

 

[RedoLane]

And that's why, folks, it's better to give a game of that caliber at least a week post-launch so you won't waste your time and energy on a broken service.

 

[sombrerosonic]

Man, sad..... my parents wanted to play the game when it came out then the pre-pay phone BS happened and the couldn't play it.

I should tell them about this issue when i get home

 

[chrisrlink]

dude afaik Guild wars 1 is still activeso if a maybe 10 yr old game can coexist with it sequel.....this is NOT how you keep your braindead fanboys sooner or later they'll wake up and give you the middle finger and leave

 

[phonemonkey]

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Overwatch 2 has gotten off to a rocky start. While plenty of online-only games, especially a free-to-play one, suffer from long queues and server overload upon launch, this one has been particularly bad with the servers suffering two DDoS attacks during its launch period.

Overwatch 2 launched yesterday and users immediately had trouble getting into games. The subreddit is currently full of posts about the connection issues, including an active, pinned technical issues megathread. The problem got so bad that Blizzard President Mike Ybarra Tweeted out a message acknowledging the server issue and thanking fans for their excitement. Just a half hour later, he revealed the issues were (at least partially) due to a DDoS attack on the servers. Eight hours after, Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller reassured fans the problem was being worked on, while revealing that a second DDoS attack was now overwhelming their servers.

Notably, Blizzard shut down servers for the original Overwatch a little over a day before the launch of Overwatch 2, which likely contributed to these issues as original players were forced to the new title. It also leaves them without any alternative while Blizzard irons out the issues with the new game's servers.

Let's blame ddos for our shit launch. Lmao.

I suppose this will be used by Dice and EA in future.

 

[The Catboy]

I really hope this game completely fails.

 

[Cubuss]

Fuck blizzard trash

 

[jahrs]

And nothing of value was lost. The world turned on forever uncaring about what had vanished into the void.

 

[KitChan]

But Daddy Kotick, wasn't giving you my phone number supposed to stop incidents like this?

 

[Bladexdsl]

the ONLY game that requires you to have a phone plan to play! blizzard truly have sunk to a new low....

 

[The Catboy]

the ONLY game that requires you to have a phone plan to play! blizzard truly have sunk to a new low....

Just found about this. I hope this fails even harder and I really hope the fans wake up and stop supporting this terrible company

 

[Cris1997XX]

the ONLY game that requires you to have a phone plan to play! blizzard truly have sunk to a new low....

"B-but it's to stop hackers and cheaters!1!!11"

 

[linuxares]

"B-but it's to stop hackers and cheaters!1!!11"

Well it will, if no one plays the game!

*points to head*

 

[MasterJ360]

Oh well.... at least Rule34 servers are still working lul

 

[HarveyHouston]

Not a big fan of Overwatch, so not affected. However, it seems that Activision Blizzard is always going to have problems for life.

 

[Noctosphere]

Fuck blizzard trash

actually, blizzard became trash when it merged with activision
I really did enjoy their old games

 

[Tsukiru]

Love the branding, 2 DDoS for Overwatch 2! What'll they think of next?