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I was under the impression some of the 'clones' have been in development since before Overwatch was announced? It seemed like a few companies had been eyeing the TF2 market, not so much OW itself. The again, I'm sure larger studios are aware of other IPs in production long before we are.

Edit:
Battleborn was announced August 2014

OW announced at Blizzcon 2014
 

Cinge

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Cool got in. Gives me something to do between FO4(which I can't play for huge hours straight or I go bonkers, so have to do it in waves).
 

Palum

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I got an e-mail... does that tweet mean to imply full CB access past that or just the weekend test like the e-mail describes?

You?re invited to take part in our first Overwatch Beta Test Weekend, taking place this Friday, November 20 at 9 a.m. PST through Monday, November 23 at 9 a.m. PST. Help us stress-test our hardware...and make a few plays of the game in the process!

To prepare for battle now, just log in to the Battle.net desktop app, click the Overwatch tab, select your region from the drop-down menu, and click Install. You?ll be ready for action when the servers come online on Friday.

For more information on the Overwatch Beta Test Weekend, check out the blog.

Need the Battle.net app? Download it now.

Once you?ve played a few matches, give us your feedback.


See you on the battlefield!

-The Overwatch team
 

Palum

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Yea, but then account management says this:

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So *shrug*
 

Cinge

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I think the first line in that email says enough : " You're invited to take part in our first Overwatch Beta Test Weekend,". Account will probably say beta regardless and they will just take it way when its done.

I'd just plan on weekend and if you can still play after, then cool.
 

Pyros

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If you can post on the closed beta boards, you have full access, otherwise you're a weekend pleb. Seems to be the easy way to check.
 

xzi

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Yea, but then account management says this:

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So *shrug*
Yeah, mine is exactly the same after receiving the stress test invite. But according to the forums I can only post on stress test boards:Overwatch Forums
...actually it also says I can post in the real beta forums as well, but I wonder if that's just cause I'm flagged for stress test
 

Cinge

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If you go to reply in the regular beta forums, it won't let you(mouse over text of reply button will say, you need to be a participant of blah blah). You can read but not post. If you are weekend only.
 

Hekotat

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woot! Got an invite.

Send me some of your usernames so we can wreck shop!


Battletag Hekotat#1460
 

Palum

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Yea nope, I get the red circle with line icon on beta forums. Oh well. I've done so many betas and provided pages of feedback/bugs and I habitually get shit on by Blizz for selection. The only one I've ever got in legit without guild contacts at Blizz was HotS, that's from someone who's literally owned every Blizz game on PC. I bought Blackthorne on floppy disks.

Bleh.
 

Tenks

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Since girls have the cleavage cam vision I'm going to invent having a webcam posted directly at my old man hairy balls resting gently on the computer chair. That is guaranteed to generate views and get an invite, yeah?
 

Tenks

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Holy fuck another email from Blizzard today that isn't a beta invite. These fuckers love my money and get a sick and twisted enjoyment from fucking with me.