It looks like the Overwatch 2 servers are still being doused with hot sauce, as Blizzard’s launch woes keep on keeping on. The studio has relayed some of the issues plaguing players who want to play the game, which include the LC-208 and other login errors, and more.
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Overwatch 2 LC-208 and Login Errors and Known Issues:
Update: Blizzard has shared a new update regarding the LC-208 errors:
We want to share updates from the team working this weekend on #Overwatch2:
– Fixes are being rolled out over the next few hours to address many of the remaining LC-208 errors
– We are aware of lengthy account migration queues and are ramping up capacity to move it faster
— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) October 9, 2022
Over on the official Blizzard forums, the studio has relayed that downtime is happening yet again today, though it’ll be just an hour. There are some good news though, as items like the SMS Protect requirement has now been removed for veteran players and more.
SMS Protect
The change to phone number requirements is now in effect. As we mentioned in our last status update 2.0k, this means the majority of our console community (players who already had Overwatch connected to their Battle.net account, including any console player who has played since June 9, 2021) no longer need to meet SMS Protect requirements. Any PC player who ever played the original Overwatch has this requirement removed. If you have an active customer service ticket for SMS Protect but no longer need it due to this change, please close your tickets 753—this will help reduce our customer service queues and allow us to help other folks quicker.
Yesterday’s server shutdowns were to help address two issues: the first was used to deploy fixes for some bugs relating to account merges and logins. The second was to conduct some upgrades to our databases (we described these issues in our last status update 2.0k). This has resulted in a quadrupling of our capacity and an eventual reduction in login queues overnight. We’re keeping an eye on this, particularly as we roll into the weekend when we expect more people will be logging in—early signs are good, the database looks healthy, but we will be constantly monitoring it. Weekend gamer hours will be its biggest test yet.
We’ve made progress here, and we believe we have a working resolution for the general merging issues. Some players who merged their accounts should now be seeing their full collections, but we have many still in queue to be resolved, and we expect more to be added to the queue as people log in for the first time over the weekend. As we said previously, your collection is not lost, and with the database now updated, we now have more bandwidth to complete these merges.
Console players who pre-purchased the Watchpoint Pack may not be seeing the items as being available—while some users are experiencing this on Xbox, this issue mostly appears on PlayStation right now. We have a fix for this that we plan to deploy in our downtime later today.
We resolved a majority of these issues with our fixes yesterday, but the issue persists for a small group of players who are still seeing this error, which is preventing login. We have a fix for this that we are also planning to deploy in today’s downtime.
Now that we’ve increased capacity and have a higher player concurrency, matchmaking systems are being affected, which means you may be seeing a wait before being placed in a match. We are changing configurations within this system today and hope to somewhat shorten that wait throughout the day. We will continue looking into the matchmaking queues through the weekend to identify any additional improvements we can make.
Miscellaneous Client Crashes/Black Screen Issues
We have gathered reports around crashes happening in a few different scenarios here and there. We will continue to work on fixes for these issues, and hope to deploy them in updates coming as soon as today.
Whew! I don’t envy Blizzard’s situation regarding the launch of OW2 — not one bit! Hopefully, things will be resolved soon and players can, y’know, just play.
Source: Blizzard forums
Where did you see this status update? I haven’t see any acknowledgment by blizzard or mention of downtime.
Yea, the LC 208 error is keeping me from logging in and it sucks cause I want to work on my battle pass and with that error, it’s preventing me from any type of gameplay. As for account merge, I have all my PC stuff on PS5 but not my PS5 stuff, it was weird cause I definitely pressed skip for later but it still merged, now Im wondering if it’s because I just merged on PC that my items aren’t showing up but I remember merging with my Blizzard account using PS5 on the original Overwatch
For the LC 208, just keep on trying. It happened to me, and after multiple attempts, it worked.
There is a link below. It’s from the Blizzard forums by the studio’s Community Manager. We always attribute where we get our info.