The launch of the long-awaited Overwatch 2 didn’t go as planned for Blizzard. The servers were hit for a couple of days with an intense distributed denial-of-service attack meaning that players couldn’t get into matches etc and some players noticed that their progress and character unlocks from the original game weren’t transferred over. These issues have mostly been fixed now and Blizzard says that they have largely stabilised the game overall and continue to make progress in fixing or improving bugs players have been facing. To apologise for the issues Overwatch 2 players faced at launch they will be given the following:
- All players who log in from October 25 through to the end of Season One will receive an all-new Cursed Captain Reaper Legendary skin and a Health Pack Weapon Charm.
- Blizzard is planning to run several Double Match XP weekends. Specific dates for those will be revealed soon.
Source: Blizzard
That’s cool that Blizzard will compensate players because of the rough launch and stabilized the game. That’s unfortunate they got hit with DDOS Atk’s, the minority ruins it for the majority. Plus i think i seen on the news that major airports got hit with DDOS Atk’s the past few days.
Not enough for those who were affected by the auto-purchase bug/feature.
If they really want to apologize, they’ll greatly lower the cost of in-game currency for cosmetics. Seriously, 100 credits for a voice line? They were 25 in OW1.
I wonder if it’s because OW1 was a paid game and OW2 is free to play that they increased the cost.
True but what can ow1 players say when it was changed to ow2.