The launch of Overwatch 2 right this moment has had no scarcity of points with lengthy queue occasions and swathes of gamers reporting being disconnected quite a few occasions, however that isn’t stopping them from looking for the sport out in different methods.
With so many individuals having bother getting in themselves, Overwatch 2 has posted large viewership numbers, peaking at greater than half one million concurrent viewers.
For comparability, Overwatch solely eclipsed that mark one time in its historical past, based on Sully Gnome, and it was for the Overwatch 2 beta this previous April. The OW2 beta helped the sport’s Twitch class hit a peak of 1.46 million concurrent viewers on April 27.
As one may anticipate, the creator with probably the most viewers has been former Overwatch League professional xQc, who has steadily maintained greater than 100,000 viewers within the class on the time of writing.
Different high OW2 gamers streaming the title are acquainted faces that aren’t essentially identified for loading up into the class-based taking pictures sport too. Twitch mainstays like Asmongold, Moistcr1tikal, and Lirik have all hovered round 20,000 viewers as properly, placing them on the high of the newly-minted broadcast class.
The Overwatch 2 launch has been something however clear although.
Whereas servers quietly opened barely earlier than the publicized launch time of 2pm CT, queue times and disconnections have plagued the primary few hours of the sport’s life.
Blizzard president Mike Ybarra took to Twitter simply hours following the sport’s launch to acknowledge that OW2 is experiencing server points. In a submit, he added the sport is experiencing a “mass DDoS attack” that’s inflicting the issue.
