{"id":95435,"date":"2022-10-13T02:50:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T02:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/as-the-dust-settles-on-overwatch-2s-disastrous-launch-blizzard-promises-double-xp-weekends-free-skin\/"},"modified":"2022-10-13T02:50:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T02:50:01","slug":"as-the-dust-settles-on-overwatch-2s-disastrous-launch-blizzard-promises-double-xp-weekends-free-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/as-the-dust-settles-on-overwatch-2s-disastrous-launch-blizzard-promises-double-xp-weekends-free-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"As the dust settles on Overwatch 2&#8217;s disastrous launch, Blizzard promises double XP weekends, free skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Blizzard has announced a series of double XP weekends to &#8220;make up for any lost time&#8221; following Overwatch 2&#8217;s various launch issues.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s try that again,&#8221; Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra wrote on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Qwik\/status\/1579954877869850624\" target=\"_blank\">twitter<\/a> last night, sharing a fresh blog post from the developer which apologises &#8211; yet again &#8211; for the game&#8217;s troubled arrival and offers a few bits and pieces to cheer fans up.\n<\/p>\n<p>Overwatch 2 players can look forward to &#8220;several Double Match XP weekends&#8221; &#8211; dates for which will be announced soon.  Anyone who logs in this season from 25th October onwards will also get a Cursed Captain Reaper Legendary skin and a Health Pack Weapon Charm, which is nice I guess.\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"blue_billywig\">\n<figure class=\"video_wrapper bluebillywig\">\n<\/figure>\n<p>Watch on YouTube\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption>A look at Overwatch 2&#8217;s Kiriko.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The past week has seen Overwatch 2 hit numerous snags as its free-to-play launch attracted several DDOS attacks, an auto-purchase bug and general server wobbles.\n<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard has responded by shoring up its network capacity to reduce issues with queues and crashes.  Separately, it has also U-turned on a widely-disliked policy which forced some players to use SMS verification in order to get started.\n<\/p>\n<p>(That same SMS issue is still currently set to be used in Activision&#8217;s Modern Warfare 2.)\n<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, if you&#8217;re feeling nostalgic, here&#8217;s the moment the original Overwatch died forever.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n    function appendFacebookPixels() {\n      if (window.facebookPixelsDone) return;\n      !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n      {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n      n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n      if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n      n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n      t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n      s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');<\/p>\n<p>        fbq('init', '560747571485047');\n        fbq('init', '738979179819818');<\/p>\n<p>      fbq('track', 'PageView');\n      window.facebookPixelsDone = true;<\/p>\n<p>      window.dispatchEvent(new Event('BrockmanFacebookPixelsEnabled'));\n    }<\/p>\n<p>    window.addEventListener('BrockmanTargetingCookiesAllowed', appendFacebookPixels);\n  <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has announced a series of double XP weekends to &#8220;make up for any lost time&#8221; following Overwatch 2&#8217;s various launch issues. &#8220;Let&#8217;s try that again,&#8221; Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra wrote on twitter last night, sharing a fresh blog post from the developer which apologises &#8211; yet again &#8211; for the game&#8217;s troubled arrival and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/as-the-dust-settles-on-overwatch-2s-disastrous-launch-blizzard-promises-double-xp-weekends-free-skin\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">As the dust settles on Overwatch 2&#8217;s disastrous launch, Blizzard promises double XP weekends, free skin<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":94880,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/overwatch-2-offering-double-xp-and-free-skin-as-apology-for-rough-launch\/","url_meta":{"origin":95435,"position":0},"title":"Overwatch 2 Offering Double XP and Free Skin as Apology For Rough Launch","date":"October 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Blizzard has offered players double XP, a weapon charm, and a free skin to make up for Overwatch 2's rough launch. 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