Opening this thread so that we can gather if anyone has received beta access via watching OWL this past weekend.
Would be nice to know if anyone’s hours of OWL viewership have paid off.
Please remember that only a maximum of 31,500 beta drops were available during the OWL promotion. Considering the viewer count was in the hundreds of thousands across all eligible channels, I would not be surprised if no one from the forum community successfully claims one.
That being said, according the official rules of that promotion, a person who earns a beta drop should receive an email saying so.
I got one, but didn’t get any email saying so (at least not yet). Maybe it got eaten up by a spam filter or something?
I just noticed an hour or so after the last OWL broadcast finished that I suddenly had access to a few more channels in the forum related to beta, so checked the battle.net app and was surprised to see that the game version dropdown for Overwatch had a new “Overwatch 2 Tech Beta” option under “In Development” in addition to the normal “Overwatch” option under “Live”.
So even if you don’t have an email, it’s probably worth checking whether you have a new option in the battle.net app.
I’ve seen a thread here and there of people getting keys through OWL.