After shutting down Overwatch 2 servers twice on Thursday to fix some issues, Blizzard performed maintenance again on Friday. Officials said that the game may experience an hour-long downtime for maintenance around 9 p.m. that night. In a post on its own forum, Blizzard gave a detailed explanation, including engineering fixes and related updates for some of the larger issues.
As planned, Blizzard hopes to fix an issue with the Watchpoint Pack not being available to pre-order players when it shuts down late Friday, as well as an LC-208 error that prevents some players from logging into the game.
In addition, in a post on Friday, Blizzard confirmed that its SMS Protect mobile phone number binding policy change has officially gone into effect, previously “Overwatch 2” players only needed to provide a postpaid phone number during account registration to play.
But after an outcry, Blizzard finally relented, allowing players who have played “Overwatch 1” through a Battle.net account to experience the sequel without registering a phone number.
Meanwhile, Blizzard is also investigating an issue where players may experience long waits before matches. To that end, the company is actively tweaking the configuration within the system, hoping to bring some degree of relief.
As for Thursday’s two maintenance outages, Blizzard remains fairly optimistic. The changes quadrupled the capacity and ultimately reduced login queues overnight, the forum post said.
Blizzard will continue to keep a close eye on this in the coming days. Especially the influx of players on weekends will pose a greater challenge to the Overwatch 2 servers.
