Overwatch Thread

Since 5845 Days

Posted by GriftGFX

I totally expect to be able to play the first night. At 7:00pm.

Every single beta launch has been smooth as butter. There will be fewer people playing on day one than played the open beta.

Any less and they dropped the ball.

Prepare to be upset. Assume the worst with Blizzard game launches, always. Maybe they'll nail it this time, but I doubt it.

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Megido

Since 6536 Days

Good thing i'm working monday night then, hopefully the servers will have gotten sorted by tuesday (high) noon.

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Cake or death!?

Since 7140 Days

Even on Open Beta their servers had 0 issues. Why would they tomorrow?

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Megido

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Well you never know :P

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Posted by Tinks

Even on Open Beta their servers had 0 issues. Why would they tomorrow?

I'm just warning everyone ahead of time, they might be fine. Just isn't the case with most of their game launches.

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Since 7211 Days

How often does Blizzard launch new games? Are you basing this off of one game? HoTS I guess? I played Diablo 3 the day it came out too. There were server issues but it was completely playable. I think you're being hyperbolic.

We're totally playing Monday.

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Even on Open Beta their servers had 0 issues. Why would they tomorrow?

On the other hand.. this is totally not true.

Since it wasn't posted: https://youtu.be/cPRRupAM4DI

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Since 7140 Days

That might be the best animated short yet

TOMORROW

Also looks like there's a dev Q&A tomorrow afternoon before servers go up.
Curious to see it but I'll also be working :/

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Since 7211 Days

Clueless Gamer is better when it's his production buddy and not random celebrities.

This thread is already eight pages long and we haven't even launched yet. Hopefully people continue to enjoy it for some time.

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Posted by GriftGFX

How often does Blizzard launch new games? Are you basing this off of one game? HoTS I guess? I played Diablo 3 the day it came out too. There were server issues but it was completely playable. I think you're being hyperbolic.

We're totally playing Monday.

On the other hand.. this is totally not true.

Since it wasn't posted: https://youtu.be/cPRRupAM4DI

I'm talking about every single WoW expansion ever, and trust me, Diablo 3 literally didn't work the entire launch day on PC. I remember it fondly, we had a 6 person LAN party set up for launch night and didn't get to play a single minute and ended up just getting drunk. Good times.

Blizzard's servers are pretty notorious for not handling the initial surge on day 1. If we aren't all playing with 400 ping I'll be a happy man.

Like I said, this is just a warning that it could be a big clusterfuck tomorrow evening. Maybe it'll be smooth, I just wouldn't count on it or anything.

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[quote=GriftGFX]How often does Blizzard launch new games? Are you basing this off of one game? HoTS I guess? I played Diablo 3 the day it came out too. [b]There were server issues but it was completely playable. I think you're being hyperbolic.[/b]

We're totally playing Monday.

On the other hand.. this is totally not true.

Since it wasn't posted: https://youtu.be/cPRRupAM4DI[/quote]
I'm talking about every single WoW expansion ever, [url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404481,00.asp]and trust me, Diablo 3 literally didn't work the entire launch day on PC[/url].  I remember it fondly, we had a 6 person LAN party set up for launch night and didn't get to play a single minute and ended up just getting drunk.  Good times.

Blizzard's servers are pretty notorious for not handling the initial surge on day 1.  If we aren't all playing with 400 ping I'll be a happy man.

Like I said, this is just a warning that it could be a big clusterfuck tomorrow evening.  Maybe it'll be smooth, I just wouldn't count on it or anything.

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As if your link says the game "literally didn't work the entire launch day." Some people were playing Diablo on launch day. I played Diablo 3 at launch with several other people. Yes we saw login errors. Yes we still played the game. We weren't all trying to login from a single IP address though. That may have compounded your problems.

I think you're moving the goalposts. We've gone from "you won't be playing it Monday" to "it might have issues". Assuming nothing is a good position. I agree.. so I won't assume that it ships busted :)

Edit: I won't assume a DDoS attack is out of the quetion either :D

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Posted by GriftGFX

As if your link says the game "literally didn't work the entire launch day." Some people were playing Diablo on launch day. I played Diablo 3 at launch with several other people. Yes we saw login errors. Yes we still played the game. We weren't all trying to login from a single IP address though. That may have compounded your problems.

I think you're moving the goalposts. We've gone from "you won't be playing it Monday" to "it might have issues". Assuming nothing is a good position. I agree.. so I won't assume that it ships busted :)

Edit: I won't assume a DDoS attack is out of the quetion either :D

See now I'm sort of hoping its busted so I can come back here and rub your nose in it :)

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Posted by scoobs0688

See now I'm sort of hoping its busted so I can come back here and rub your nose in it :)

If I play for one minute today you were wrong!

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Posted by GriftGFX

If I play for one minute today you were wrong!

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure

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ALMOST

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rayy

Since 7185 Days

11 hours more :D

Though not sure if I will be able to play tonight :(

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Posted by rayy

Though not sure if I will be able to play tonight :(

We'll have at least 2/3rd of the 6thAD wrecking crew on tonight. I wish I could get Tre to TRY Overwatch. He literally doesn't know what he's missing. And who knows if Medic will play. He said "I can't get into these cartoony games" prior to playing the open beta more than any of us.

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rayy

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Posted by GriftGFX

We'll have at least 2/3rd of the 6thAD wrecking crew on tonight. I wish I could get Tre to TRY Overwatch. He literally doesn't know what he's missing. And who knows if Medic will play. He said "I can't get into these cartoony games" prior to playing the open beta more than any of us.

Damm I will try to at least play 30 minutes today.

Getting my civil marriage on tuesday and I kind looking forward more to OW :P

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alimokrane

Since 7141 Days

Posted by rayy

Damm I will try to at least play 30 minutes today.

Getting my civil marriage on tuesday and I kind looking forward more to OW :P

Haha, congratulations :)

I have to say, I am overly tempted to get this now.... I am not sure I will have the time to invest in it though..

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Posted by rayy

Damm I will try to at least play 30 minutes today.

Getting my civil marriage on tuesday and I kind looking forward more to OW :P

Doesn't matter... scoobs said we can't play tonight ;)

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Since 7140 Days

The Q&A for those who missed it - it is kinda short sadly. There were so many questions posted too

https://www.facebook.com/PlayOverwatch/videos/6141...

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Since 7211 Days

Smooth launch.

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Posted by GriftGFX

Smooth launch.

Grift, is there a way to find out how many people own the game on battle.net? something similar to SteamSpy

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