You might be in that Overwatch 2 queue awhile.
Overwatch 2's launch on Tuesday has so far been less of a launch and more of a line: thousands of players, including a few at PC Gamer, have beentweeted
this afternoon that this isn't just the result of too many players trying to get in—Overwatch 2 is currently suffering a DDoS attack. "Unfortunately we are experiencing a mass DDoS attack on our servers," Ybarra wrote."Teams are working hard to mitigate/manage. This is causing a lot of drop/connection issues."
Distributed denial-of-service attacks direct large amounts of internet traffic to specific servers, overwhelming them with more connections than they can keep up with. Cloudflare simplifies a DDoS attack as"an unexpected traffic jam clogging up the highway, preventing regular traffic from arriving at its destination." Cloudflare hasof how hackers create botnets and use them to carry out DDoS attacks if you're after a deeper understanding of how they work.
This isn't Blizzard's first DDoS rodeo: we've reported on DDoS issues affecting Battle.net and World of Warcraft
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