Their whole service has been down for well over an hour now and nobody can access any of their games, be it WoW or Overwatch or Hearthstone. There hasn't been any official statement yet as far as I can tell. This being an easter sunday also makes it one of the worst possible times for this to happen when employees are probably on holiday.
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Looks like Blizzard got hit with a huge DDOS attack?
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Keyser Soze
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Hearthstone works fine in EU on my iPad
Last_colossi
Member
AU here, 2631min login queue just to launch Battle.net app, seems to be getting worse an hour ago I was in the app but couldn't get into Overwatch due to 5000 line queue.
Blizzard has done us a favour..I kid I kid...
Keyser Soze
Member
There are still 70,000 people watching people play Hearthstone on Twitch, so things dont seem that bad.
So, why the DDOS? Did I miss someone else coming out as a homosexual?
So, why the DDOS? Did I miss someone else coming out as a homosexual?
RumblingRosco
Member
I'm not sure I understand your point, but yes, this same thing happened about 3-4 days ago. All servers of all games were down across multiple regions.
They have a tendency to happen during holidays for some reason. First thing I did was try and check the site and forums which didn't work at all, so it was more than just authentication servers. The forums just started working again a couple of minutes ago.
pirateluigi
Member
It wasn't really a big deal when the issue died 3 days ago. It's a much bigger deal today when the issue has been ressurected.
H2intensity
Member
yeah i can't play hearthstone right now ... it put me on queue of thousands minutes -_-"
is this a thing that happens?
it's a holiday and people are shitty? my best guess
show me your skeleton
Member
this. this is good.
Some friends remained online and those who were kicked couldn't log back in, which is just authentication, can't speak for the sites but whenever their stuff goes down all of it does for whatever reason.
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Deleted member 325805
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I got my 5th bad legendary in a row, it had to be done.
If we all believe hard enough, absolutely.
Diablohead
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UK and can't log into the blizzard launcher or overwatch, not even a queue for login appears.
so good.
- I was going to try to grind bounties in D3 this morning, but this might be the thing that ends my season 10 - the ancient primal are addictive to me, and the demon hunter should just be able to cube the Karlei's Point....
(300 tries later...)
I was about to post this
It wil probably take a good part of the day too so plan for something else to do.
Irobot82
Member
It's difficult when people plan a day of it and a wrench gets thrown in their plans.
That sounds pretty serious.
Yep. It's totally going to go back online five seconds before I have to go to my father in law's for brunch today. Planned all morning of bounty grinding
Power outage are prety serious when it comes to servers hardware. At work we have alamrs going off if the power stops and the systems start using our APC units because it means we have about 60 minutes to turn off everything properly.
The last time we had a complete outage on a sunday, it took us 3 days to get everything up and running correctly because people couldn't get to the site in time to fix things.
LurkerPrime
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Dead Prince
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happy easter.
(from reddit)
Lol brilliant
TheContact
Member
there's people out there who like to do this on holidays. i think lizard squad took down xbox live or something for christmas. the thing about ddos is it requires very little skill to pull off; usually it's just about who has the money to buy a botnet and they just pick an IP and hit a button
This only affects NA servers.
Elven_Star
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Played Heroes of the Storm around 30 minutes ago. Everything seemed fine.