Blizzard has made a proper apology to followers for the chaotic launch of Overwatch 2 and promised a brand new stability replace for this week.
Contemplating there’s nonetheless debate over whether or not Overwatch 2 counts as a sequel or only a rebranding you wouldn’t have anticipated it to have an particularly tough launch, however due to DDoS assaults from disgruntled followers the entire thing was near a catastrophe, with many unable to even log into the free-to-play sport.
These points have now improved and so Blizzard has issued an apology to gamers and introduced a collection of double XP weekends to ensure that gamers to make up for ‘misplaced time’ and degree up extra shortly.
It hasn’t stated precisely when these weekends can be however they’ll even be gifting away a Cursed Captain Reaper legendary pores and skin and well being pack weapon attraction to everybody that logs in from October 25 till the tip of season one.
Bugs have additionally been one other main drawback, with Blizzard promising to launch extra stability updates, together with one which’s due this week.
Not all the issues had been unforeseeable although, with Blizzard coming in for appreciable criticism when it got here to its calls for for utilizing a telephone to log into the sport. It later U-turned on that however at time of writing it’s nonetheless refusing to refund in-game purchases made on account of an auto-buy bug.
‘Launching Overwatch 2 as a stay service comes with wonderful alternatives and challenges, each anticipated and surprising. We’ve largely stabilised the sport total, and we’ve made quite a lot of progress in fixing or bettering points a few of you might be going through,’ stated president Mike Ybarra on Blizzard’s weblog.
‘We’re dedicated to constantly investigating points as they come up, working shortly in the direction of fixes, and being clear with our group on the standing of Overwatch 2.’
There’s a listing of identified points right here, which Blizzard are going to maintain up to date, however if you happen to attempt to log in now it ought to work. The sport itself is free-to-play on all codecs, so at the very least you’ll solely be dropping time, and never cash, if you happen to give it a go.
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