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Overwatch is a team-based multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. It was released in May 2016 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Players on a team work together to secure and defend control points on a map.
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Online Play (27%)
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Glitches (8%)
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Game Crash (5%)
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Matchmaking (3%)
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Overwatch Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Gigglenox
(@gigglenox) reported
@Grummz Whoever didn't believe you on this was blinded by brand loyalty, "inclusivity", or money. From a players perspective it was obvious that the balancing issues spelled doom for the Overwatch eSports scene.
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Sedulity
(@integrityDD) reported
Loooooots of people doing Afghanistan "tragedy porn" right now, when the same problems they are crowing about have always been there and are not forgotten. The withdrawal is a reduction of the General Purpose Force only, not a withdrawal of overwatch or interest
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Arden Takeda
(@mysterystar13) reported
@IceTheDemon @PlagueOfGripes The Overwatch dev team can't change the issues, they're not Blizzard's higher ups
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Lindini
(@Juls02943613) reported
@OverwatchEU I think this is a problem, thats not as important as other Problems of Overwatch and Blizzard itself. Something i was more hoping of, as i heard the Headline of the Post, was something about the sudden and sad Death of Mercys Voice-Actor...
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olaf 💙💗💜
(@olafisanugget) reported
@4Motumbu I love how you've gone out of your way to try and comment on peoples post about this. Does it excuse what happened to that woman? No. Will they ever be able to do anything to fix what happened to her? No. But the Overwatch Team, not the company, THE TEAM, have taken steps 1/?
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SpectralSmitty
(@SpectralSmitty) reported
I'm not angry about the Overwatch cowboy's name change. That's okay. I understand the reasoning. The problem is that it's a band-aid over a much more serious problem at Acti-Blizzard (toxic work culture, harassment, shredding HR docs, the rat **** Bobby Kotick) and there doesn't-
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ニンフォノムイコン
(@bunnytanktreads) reported
@SCMNSR @PlayOverwatch Blizzard get in trouble, Blizzard makes a meaningless change to Overwatch. The last time it happened, they made Jack gay in a comic. This time, a bunch of slacktivists whinged about McCree being named after an Blizzard employee and demanded the character be renamed.
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Kyle McHattie
(@kmchattie) reported
@Wowhead The overwatch team is stupid. His name is McCree and changing it because you no longer like the employee you name him after is petty. Why not focus on real issues, like the horrible matchmaking that has plagued the game since day 1.
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Sinister Pixel
(@SinisterPixeLP) reported
@OverwatchEU Remember people: the Overwatch team are just the team working on one single project. They don't have the power to address the issues within Blizzard as a whole. This isn't disingenuous or a PR stunt. It's one team doing what they can. You need to address your complaints higher up
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Lorex
(@lorxedd) reported
@OverwatchEU console overwatch wants their t500 to be displayed in game 👍👍 fix this.
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Marbles
(@MarbsTweets) reported
@IGN @Blizzard_Ent Will changing the name change the character or gameplay at all? No! That's the problem, all those who played and work on Overwatch will know know this character is McCree, but now has a new name. Changing the name does NOTHING to protect the workers of give piece of mind.
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Your Mom
(@thewilldabeast_) reported
@PlayOverwatch Overwatch has enough problems right now. Don’t you think you should be trying to make your game more fun instead of changing pointless stuff like this that nobody wanted you to do
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hunter (🐇)
(@honter_bunposts) reported
@mewlett Yeah they make vague statements about company culture but the press release makes out like 80% of the problem is "it's weird for Overwatch to have real people's names in it at all"
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Tyler
(@TylerTyler_____) reported
@tralyndavies This isn’t an executives decision to rename Mcree and ignore all the problems, its the small one thing the Overwatch dev team can do to make a safer work environment
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Marbles
(@MarbsTweets) reported
@zazuch1 @Bidya_James Changing his name changes NOTHING. It does not touch upon the underlying issues present at Blizzard, and for all those who played or seen Overwatch he'll still be McCree. There isn't even a "Peice of Mind" issue. Hell they'll have to probably go through the coding and change
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R3D 💙
(@R3dInfinity__) reported
@MoralNitro OW is distancing themselves from Blizzard's mess because what Blizzard is responsible for isn't what Overwatch means to a lot of people. It is also an issue the OW team cares about. Women that have worked on that team at come forward and said they were lucky to work on that team.
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Leo Maximoff ᱬ
(@Leo__Maximoff) reported
@UltimaShadowX As someone who doesn’t know **** about overwatch, why is his name a problem? Not saying it shouldn’t be I’m really just curious lol
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Kaiser416
(@Kaiser4161) reported
@PlayOverwatch I'm pretty sure most people can understand that the Jessie McCree in Overwatch is not the same ******* at Blizzard - but hey, rewrite his name. That'll certainly fix the problem, right? Real talk, how many people even KNEW McCree was named after the guy?
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Cliff Excellent
(@cliffexcellent) reported
@MOOMANiBE Wasn't it a decision from the Overwatch team anyway, and not management at Blizzard? I.e. Not a decision from anyone directly involved in the ongoing issues
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flauschxger
(@flauschxger) reported
@jayla_comics @PlayOverwatch also the Overwatch Team has bigger issues then saving their Chefs from getting broke, they need new sponsors for OWL and Investors for OW2 they cant give their remaining employees a better environment without money for either developing a 5 year old game or developing a game (1)
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Sherbet
(@Sherbet_exe) reported
@OverwatchNaeri Unrelated but I love seeing early overwatch characters and imagining how broken they would be in the meta
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todd howard is real and he tried to suck my ****
(@gayspacegulag) reported
there's something slightly amusing to me about overwatch being a total shitshow because it seems even a broken piece of **** like TF2 still had more staying power just from raw charm and mechanics
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Sharuphine
(@Shafulyn) reported
I dunno why people are so upset about what Overwatch team does to their roster. Sure it won't fix any problems, however, if that name stayed in the game everyone would be even more upset about it... The company sucks but this wasn't a bad decision at all.
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Sinister Pixel
(@SinisterPixeLP) reported
@Kyrpjooseppi6 @OverwatchEU Blizzard do need to do more about the real problem but you're addressing the wrong people. The Overwatch team is just that. A team working on Overwatch. For changes to the business as a whole, these need to be addressed far further up. There's literally 0 reason to be mad at this
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ʀᴀᴍᴏɴ⁷
(@inYourBackline) reported
@boxedbento backlash is because it goes liek this always: blizzard ***** up bigtime wait a week overwatch releases new ffa map or announces some other **** to distract from real problem „but we did good thing here so we cant be THAT bad right?“ 1/2
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Cookiscuit
(@Cookiscuit) reported
@SinisterPixeLP @Kyrpjooseppi6 @OverwatchEU >Overwatch team makes a change that really doesn't do anything and people are annoyed that the character's name is getting changed >"Don't criticize them for the decision, criticize the higher-ups since they are the ones that can solve the original problem" >????
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Sean McLoughlin
(@SeanMcL35926883) reported
@ManyATrueNerd Overwatch is just Activision Blizzards defense system when they get in serious trouble, like when they announced Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon to distract from having banned player for speaking out for Hong Kong.
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ThePsychicGaymer
(@PsychicGaymer) reported
@Tired_hack It used to be Overwatch but lately it's more so been speedrunning games with friends. Whether casual or trying its therapeutic to do a similar thing over and over. But insanely frustrating when you get so far on a good time and then ******* LOSE IT CRASH BANDICOOT YOU ****
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riley
(@killercellmate) reported
overwatch should make mccree come out as trans and then her name could be Jessie McCree there. problem done. same name but not same name.
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The Cyberchill
(@TCyberchill) reported
@WereMemes @Surisskeptic And this still feels like something blizzard is doing to distract from the lawsuit, and I feel for the lower level devs, VA's, etc who may have to crunch to implement all this before overwatch 2, Doesn't feel like it does anything to fix the work culture, feels like PR Fluff,