Blizzard is one of the only remaining company that I trust them to deliver a well polished game. I'd rate them as perfectionist among all the big game companies that I know of since they usually make sure that their game is well polished and tested before releasing them into the wild.
The beta videos that i watch in YouTube looks pretty solid already, and this is still in closed beta and they are estimated to release in 6 months time, but I'm not surprised if they delay it further.

Based on that, I don't mind pre-ordering Overwatch from Blizzard.

But there's some things which I dislike about how Blizzard is slowly steering their business.

1) No benefits of pre-ordering
a) Like what the heck, not even a sure beta-access for pre-orders? Maybe they might add this in future when they have the servers to support more players. Keeping my fingers crossed.

2) No benefits for pre-orders
a) I miss the time when by just pre-ordering, you get goodies, not from pre-ordering the so called "deluxe editions". Now most game companies have move the pre-order goodies to their deluxe edition. Thanks but no thanks to EA for starting this cheap pet idea.

Will be waiting until there's more substantial updates from Blizzard or beta invites started rolling in for Asean countries  before I pre-order mine.

my experience with Blizzard CS, 6 months my account bugged in Hearthstone keep telling me bullshit.

In the end, i posted on Reddit about my account, higher Blizzard ppl pm me and fixed it in a few days.

Conclusion, Reddit > Blizzard cs

so i wonder any news they will be new heros/new map/new play style?
else it seems kinda empty and juz another more flavour tf2

well, thats u, for me these limited content arent worth 40usd.
it will be boring after 3 months, yeah after that once a while will come back and play, but it will never be like dota 2

lol, so u think this comparison is invalid?
well i think i'll stop arguing wit u. glhf

Oh Discord is like kinda irc/skype hybrid kinda thing..
Chat and Voip app for gamers. Just a way for gamers to communicate mostly.
But since the thing is kinda extensive and has lots of feature, people turn it into communities and etc for discussions.

Yeah I guess most in Malaysia don't know yet about Discord, it's not widespread yet. Slowly growing in popularity.
Most I know who uses it are murica and people from UK.

Nah. I doubt you know Blizzard more than you know them. These market existed because they get it cheap from certain ways or loopholes with them. If not, how can business sustain if there's no market prices? Your another person who seems to lack business knowledge. Maybe the food your consuming is also part of the grey market. What say others? Gosh... As long it is legally proven, skip the fussy details.

Here's something for you to learn today. "There is more than meets the eye, bro!"

Regarding hack issue, I doubt that'll happen if you have handphone verification method and such. Talking as if all "grey part" is as grey as you think.

Just like saying a person is so good in their looks, they must be really good in their heart but no? Better get more mentality to win games in Blizzard.

I'll be rekt-ing most of you soon

Digital keys sold are mostly by opening the physical box and selling it off on the web. It's not just for PC but 3DS , XBOX One and many more. So, please stop the viral buzz about it bad or what. Some of you here... Hahaha, speak for yourself then.

aye, fair warning.
though we aren't sure of blizzard's way of handling stolen cd-keys, besides, who reads the EULA? LOL!

as for me, i've only bought blizzard games from authorized seller, those selling physical box (one of the shops in Penang and the rest from impulse store. most of the time those are cheaper than digital copy. mind boggling. only recently i bought directly from bnet. (D3 RoS and now OW)

as previously stated, i got no confidence with the source from 3rd party seller who sells very cheaply, in this case, cdkeyplus. i didn't want to deal with crap problems later on because usually it's not worth going through that trouble from the money you saved, unless you are lucky you didn't kena anything haha!

i enjoyed this game a lot, i liked the lores and the stories, the idea and history behind this game. so i don't mind paying blizz the full retail price. i really want to get collector's edition (not for the statue, but for the other stuff and the box LOL!) but that's seriously way out of my budget right now

Do you guys play on us or asia server?
I get like crazy pings on us server. Heroes keep teleporting everywhere 

Asia server is even worse, everyone playing widowmaker and i'm all alone at the objective

my area not covered by any fibre internet connection
damn jelly of those ppl getting low pings...sigh...

paying RM149 for 4Mbps streamyx, my neighbouring apartment paying RM149 for 100Mbps...oh my ISP...

Most people not realise that right now their rank is base on quick play and not a competitive play.. Since competitive are not out yet all they can show is quick play statistics. Supposedly quick play stat are not important, it just a quick play for casual play( in and out game ).

Well that is just my opinion..

Its depends on luck really.

how you check?

I base on my experience with server of BF4.. asia/sg server usually around 25-50.

so i assume the same thing here..

If we get 10ms it can only be in SG based on distance and other games we played in the past, that's from my experience.

how did u check then?

well how i conclude is proof enough i guess. SG ppl playing in the same game gets 4ms or 5ms and me in Malaysia gets 40ms, based on that i think it's safe to say that the server is in SG.

so you connect to france and what's the ping?

LOL...

you check and it show you connected to france... but you join american region.. france supposedly in difference region.

that why I ask before did blizzard have ever make their server location public?

If I am not mistaken, the IP provided by Blizzard for Americas (37.244.0.3) is just a general IP which is at their data center in France. There are also other server locations in Chicago, LA, Singapore, Sydney, Brazil and god knows where else.

There is not much point we in Malaysia run a traceroute to that IP since it will be super laggy whatever the routing path. Not sure if there is a way to obtain the SG server IP when we actually connect to it though.

As for why some people get this Singapore server and some end up going halfway across the world, it might actually have to do with routing with Unifi. As far as I know from previous tests, Unifi uses a convoluted routing path across the world for most things outside Msia (to save costs). I've seen the trace go from MY>HK>EU>US when pinging a Singapore IP. So maybe at peak hours they reroute half their traffic to these unoptimal paths and we get connected to US servers instead.

Just an example, I pinged a server located in Jurong East once (using UNIFI) and got 170ms. Then from my uncle's home 3-4km away (on TIME Broadband), the same ping resulted in ~15ms.
Time trace went to Cyberjaya then Singapore.
Unifi trace went to Europe and LA then only Singapore.

alright, i did my own testing and here's what i found.

using wiredshark, i ran packet capture while playing a quick game in overwatch. this is the first IP i got from my first game.


http://whoislookupdb.com/whois-52.221.225.144

and it's a SG server, but i'm getting 2xx ms in-game.

using pingplotter, it'll do a traceroute to the server and look at this =.=


it goes all the way to Holland (MY -> France -> Holland -> Singapore) and then only back to Singapore.
my dear friend enzo did check with unifi and they confirmed that they have international connection issue, hence the reroute that doesn't make sense.

basically, our TM routing messed us up by taking a big big U turn to go to our neighbouring country...well done