Tapley is a legend! The tourney will do well under his leadership!

admirable: best investigative journalist overwatch has to offer, what a legend!

poor esper, but having watched the games at the weekend, understandable, gl seagull and enigma!

If this was tf2 it would all be sorted out at LAN after months of swearing at each other and calling each other cunts!

Very exciting

I don't find it any more difficult than the previous one, though i never really got used to the old one or to tf.tv

Personally i prefer to view it on Twitch, so i like it this way, as before i had to click twice to get to where i wanted to be. (i like my dark twitch theme)

Good write up!

I got in on one of my accounts, feel free to add both though as I switch between them for Diablo/ovewatch

I wonder how mike will practice with no MGE?

How did you get it changed WARRRRR? I want full beta :<

servers are down until 6PM CET tomorrow, check the blog for the latest info

I dont use authenticator, did not preorder yet and only have WoW, HS and HotS on that Bnet account.

Apparently you get an install button but it doesnt show on your account page.

I'm happy because i got the install button but sad because I'll only be able to play for the weekend.

I would love to get longer access.

Good luck to all, and I guess i'll see some of you on the game this weekend!

Nada here :(

http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/7/9688324/overwatch-buy-to-play-blizzard-pricing-model-plans

This is probably the most defining thing about the model i've seen, and its exactly what i needed to hear. I'm going to be figuring out which version of the game i want to order now :)

Yeah, they said multiple times that they want to see people switching heroes and trying multi comps etc, they don't want to enforce anything but if the community decides to go with it they will most likely embrace it. That's the way i understood his words anyway.

I don't think there's any need right now to presume they will sell heroes, based on the panel last night and the Q&A posted on the sub reddit they aren't even planning on making any more heroes currently, so they have no idea if they will charge for them or not(though if they do make new heroes they probably will, which I agree is a bad idea) for now instead of grabbing out pitchforks about the heroes let's go back to being salty about not having beta!

Exactly, so maybe I'm hopeful, maybe I'm optimistic, but from what he is saying I took "currently we don't plan on adding any more heroes unless necessary or the fans want it" which means, to me at least, there won't be any behind a paywall either.

I guess it's too early to tell at this point as a lot can change between now and spring.

Update: after watching the panel I'm genuinely convinced they are not even thinking about adding new heroes at the moment, let alone wether they will charge for them or not, but again, 3-4 months is a lot of time and a lot of things could change.

One thing that never changes: still no beta ;-;

I think this is just as telling as them not giving us an outright answer "A lot of this is... there's not like this master plan we know exactly what we want to try. Let's see the health of the game and where it's at. Let's see where the fans are at, and what they want."

They don't KNOW what they are gonna do yet, they have no plans to release or sell any more heroes but if they need to or if the fans want it, they may.

At least, thats how I read it. Mostly because i don't want it to end up like Dirty Bomb.

Dirty bomb was awesome during early beta when all the mercs were free and you just "paid" for keys (they gave everyone 99 keys in early beta). The competitive scene looked really strong during that period but it killed it for me when I would have to pay real money or grind 2k hours to get every Merc so I could be relevant in comp, I don't have that amount of time anymore to spend grinding, I have a few hours a night to play, maybe more on my days off.

Zarya + anyone else really, imagine zarya ulti with pharah, road hog, junk rat, McRee all shooting their ultra at it, insane.

No luck here either

I hope not

Is it going to even have leagues? or will it be the tourney format we see more often in current games?

Definitely giving it a try once I get access, I've been itching to get back to competitive gaming after an extended break

I actually have two bnet accounts, neither with access, I'll be using the one that gets beta first primarily:

Enef#2562 (no beta)
Enef#2305 (no beta)