“Overwatch 2”, which is free to operate, was officially launched at 5:00 a.m. in Taiwan, but unlike the warm farewell atmosphere of the first generation of “Overwatch” in the Internet community the day before, players around the world were unable to log in. Game server woes, and an embarrassing apology from Blizzard Entertainment.
This morning, all SNS communities including Facebook, Twitter or Discord were discussing the issue of being unable to log in to the “Battle Strike 2” server, and Blizzard President Mike Ybarra also confirmed on his personal Twitter for the first time, Game servers are currently under massive DDoS attack.
Unfortunately we are experiencing a mass DDoS attack on our servers. Teams are working hard to mitigate/manage. This is causing a lot of drop/connection issues. https://t.co/4GwrfHEiBE
— Mike Ybarra (@Qwik) October 4, 2022
Of course, this is not the first time Blizzard has encountered this problem, in 2019World of Warcraft: Classic EditionIt happened once, and it also happened once in 2020 that caused games such as “Battle Strike” to be unable to log in.
According to past experience, such attacks take hours to mitigate, and many players have complained that they are still queuing up, and there are even reports of more than tens of thousands of players waiting. Until Blizzard announces, players can only wait patiently.
#Overwatch 2 Server error status summary for all platforms✒
DDoS…
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— Overwatch2 News @ Aubanyu (@Overwatch2_NEWS) October 5, 2022