I never expect online games to have a smooth launch, but I'm still disappointed when they don't. Especially when they are built on top of an already-function game, as is the case with Overwatch 2.
Yesterday at 11:58 AM, I logged in to try out the newly updated game. It placed me in a queue of people waiting to play, 30,000 long.
The queue moved relatively quickly, and after about 20 minutes, there were less than 1,000 people ahead of me. A few more minutes, and then the opening video played. I'd never sat through it before, so I figured I'd watch.
About 20 seconds into the video, the game kicked me back out to the queue screen - I'd been disconnected and needed to rejoin. Great! I jumped back into the queue, which was now 40,000 people long.
I got to around 20,000th place before I was met with a message telling me my game lost the connection to the server.
Only until around 8:30 PM that night was I able to get in and try a couple of matches. One shit-show where nobody worked together, and then a game that started pretty well - and then I got disconnected.
Frustrated, I closed the game and got back to my Assassin's Creed Valhalla game.
Now, today, I've tried to connect to Overwatch 2 multiple times, and each time I've been disconnected after a few minutes of waiting in the queue. Only just now (with no time to actually play!) is the queue slowly grinding down without a disconnect.
I didn't have super high hopes for Overwatch 2 - and I still don't. But I can't even play the damned thing.