Overwatch Server Status - Are the Overwatch Servers Down?
By Nicholas Barth ·
The status for the servers of Overwatch is currently unavailable due to maintenance being performed by Blizzard.
Are the Overwatch Servers down? This is the question that many members of the Overwatch community have been asking, as they have been unable to log online and play the popular first person shooter. Unfortunately, the Overwatch servers are currently down. However, the servers for Overwatch are not expected to be down for much longer according to a message from Blizzard.
Overwatch Server Status
When launching your Battle.net launcher or the title on the Playstation 4 or Xbox One consoles, you may have noticed a breaking news message explaining the current situation of the server status at this moment. Blizzard has been implementing server maintenance for many of its titles the morning of Monday, October 8th. The server maintenance that has caused the status to be down began at 7:00 AM PDT and is expected to be finished at 9 AM PDT.
However, Blizzard could extend the period of the scheduled maintenance if it feels it is needed to make sure the servers are working at an optimal performance level for each of their highly popular titles.
It is currently unclear what exactly the scheduled maintenance by Blizzard that has caused the server status to be down, but it is likely just your run of the mill maintenance performed by the developer to make sure that all of the servers are working exactly how they should. Unfortunately, this means that many members of the community for Blizzard's first person shooter title have not been able to play the title for a couple of hours and will have a little longer to wait before they can try to play again.
We will continue to update this story with more updates from Blizzard regarding the server status for Overwatch and let you know when the servers are no longer down and you can cease asking the question of "are the Overwatch servers down?".
(cover photo courtesy of Blizzard Entertainment)