If you woke up this morning hoping to log some hours with Overwatch (or Hearthstone, or Heroes of the Storm), you probably had issues trying to login to Blizzardâs game client. Five hours later, Blizzard is still working on fixing the problem. [Update 12:59AM] Blizzard says the problems have been resolved
Original story follows.
We are working on bringing logins back online. More info to follow! #BlizzCS
â Blizzard CS â The Americas (@BlizzardCS) April 16, 2017
The issues started around 6:00AM EDT, at which point Blizzard customer service reported getting complaints from players who couldnât logon to play Overwatch
#Overwatch We are currently investigating reports of login issues. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
â Blizzard CS â The Americas (@BlizzardCS) April 16, 2017
After receiving more and more reports of problems and no apparent end in sight, Blizzard took its authentication servers offline to protect its hardware while it continued to try and investigate what was preventing players from logging on.
Due to an outage, game servers were taken offline to ensure the safety of the hardware. We are working to bring services back online.
â Blizzard CS â The Americas (@BlizzardCS) April 16, 2017
Players from different online games, like Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm, took to reddit to commiserate over the outage and speculate about its ultimate causes. In the past, Blizzard has been the victim of DDoS attacks, artificial upticks in traffic that are used to cripple a companyâs servers cause some people just want to interfere with coveted weekend gaming sessions.
A minor inconvenience for some, others got hit by the outage at the worst possible moment, like Heathstone player Archonn who had just gotten the lethal damage he needed to destroy his opponent and hit Legendary rank.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sbGsnrkPPU
Itâs still unclear what the cause of the server problems were in this case or when Blizzard will have the problem fixed. So meanwhile go collect some eggs or something.
