Overwatch 2, which launched on Tuesday, has so far been more of a queue than a launch, with thousands of players, including several from PC Gamer, stuck in long login queues (opens in new tab) and encountering connection errors after reaching the menu Blizzard president Mike Ybarra tweeted this afternoon that this is not simply the result of many players trying to log in (opens in new tab).

"Unfortunately, we are experiencing a massive DDoS attack on our servers. Team is working hard to mitigate/manage." This is causing a lot of drop/connection issues." [A distributed denial of service attack directs large amounts of Internet traffic to a specific server and overwhelms it with so many connections that the server can't keep up.Cloudflare simplifies DDoS attacks as "unexpected traffic jams clogging highways and preventing normal traffic from reaching its destination Simplifying it as "preventing normal traffic from reaching its destination," Cloudflare offers a friendly breakdown (open in new tab) of how hackers create botnets and use them to carry out DDoS attacks. [We report DDoS issues affecting Battle.net and World of Warcraft in 2020 (open in new tab), 2019 (open in new tab), and even the year before that DDoS attackers targeted WoW in 2010 for taking the MMO offline In 2010, DDoS attackers targeting WoW even received jail time (open in new tab) for taking the MMO offline.

Due to the overwhelming amount of traffic hitting Blizzard's servers, it may take several hours for Overwatch 2 login issues to smooth out.