Overwatch 2: A DDOS attack opaque Blizzard's premiere with a massive fall of servers

In the launch of a free game as expected as Overwatch 2, we could only expect the servers to be overloaded . Unfortunately, Blizzard FPS is currently experiencing many connection failures and other mistakes that are angry at players.

Loss of progress with respect to the previous work, impossibility of receiving security SMS, endless queues... The beginning of OW2 is being very unpleasant for most players, but developers are doing everything possible to Try to optimize servers.

DDoS attacks overload servers

If the number of players is obviously in doubt by the catastrophic state of the Overwatch 2, Mike Ibarra , president of Blizzard, just confirmed through his Twitter account that the multiple DDoS attacks (distributed Denial of Service) were the main ones due to their unavailability.

The teams are currently investigating to try to prevent these attacks as quickly as possible.The teams are working hard on the problems of the Overwatch server 2. We are moved by the enthusiasm of the players, and we will continue to focus on solving the problems so that the players can have fun. Thank you for their patience. Unfortunately, we are experiencing a massive DDoS Attack on our servers. The teams are working hard to mitigate and manage it. This is causing many connection problems.

In a nutshell, this means that, in addition to the large number of players who want to enter Overwatch 2 to test the new functions, a group of people (using bots) are currently pointing to the servers on purpose to overload them. In general, This act allows a site or service not to be available for an indefinite period to make a company lose money or to ask you to stop the nightmare.

It will be a matter of hours that all this is solved, but obviously they will continue to be a nuisance until the American giant acts once and for all.