If you’re one of the many players trying to hop onto Overwatch 2 this evening, you may have noticed that there appears to be some issues going on, particularly those related to connection drops and logging in. Well seems like you aren’t the only one, as reports of Overwatch 2 Servers Down have begun flooding in.
Overwatch 2 Servers Down Status and Updates for January 23 (Update Jan. 24)
Update 3: Blizzard has announced that issues have been resolved:
[#BattleNet] The login issues have been resolved. Thanks for your patience and sorry for any inconvenience.
— Blizzard CS – The Americas (@BlizzardCS) January 24, 2023
Update 2: Blizzard has acknowledged the server issues!
[#BattleNet] We're currently investigating an issue affecting our authentication servers, which may result in failed or slow login attempts for some of our games.
— Blizzard CS – The Americas (@BlizzardCS) January 24, 2023
Update: It seems server issues have hit the game again this January 24! Multiple users have reported issues that have prevented them from connecting:
Yep can’t play the game again from Overwatch
Emergency update if you can’t play. Download and restart game. from overwatch2
Blizzard has not issued any acknowledgement of this downtime, but once we know more, we’ll update the post.
While Blizzard has yet to acknowledge any downtime, over on downdetector, it reports coming in the thousands have begun flooding in with users reporting connectivity issues, and troubles signing in. It doesn’t appear to be just Overwatch 2 either, as Blizzard’s Battle.net client also appears to be having issues, as well as other Blizzard titles.
Currently there are no planned maintenance scheduled for today, though there is one scheduled tomorrow. However, that is relating to World of Warcraft titles.
As always, we’ll continue to monitor the situation and will update this story once the servers begin to come back online.