Players are itching to get back into Overwatch, as evidenced by a lengthy queue that many of them can’t get out of. Overwatch’s new Season 1 update just launched, acting as a soft reboot that drops the “2” from the title and adds five new heroes. It certainly has fans excited, with the shooter reaching an all-time high for concurrent players on Steam, but many of them can’t even get past the title screen.
Firing up Overwatch will put you in line to enter the game, with players reporting that upon reaching the front of the queue, they’re given an error message and kicked all the way back.
According to developer Blizzard, Overwatch just had its “biggest weekend in over a year,” a claim backed up by recent Steam data. The game reached a concurrent player count of nearly 70,000 over the weekend, but with the Season 1 update, Overwatch has already broken its own record and reached an all-time peak with over 124,000 concurrent players (and counting) as of this writing.
