Overwatch 2 launched yesterday as a free to play game and while it was easy to download, players who tried to enter into the game simply got nowhere. Blizzard has explained that Overwatch 2 was hit with multiple distributed denial-of-service attacks which crippled the game’s log-in system and caused the majority of people who tried to get into the game to encounter multiple errors. This must have been extremely frustrating for the development team and it seems the attacks were sparked by the fact that players have to link a phone number to their Battle.net account in order to play. Blizzard explained that this measure was implemented to “prevent bad actors from being able to use cheats and cycle through multiple additional accounts that all share the same phone number.” It’s not clear if the issue is resolved.
