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How about COD?

Everyone is thinking the same. Blizzard aren’t the only ones to have server issues over the last week.

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Was deep into a game of Warzone just now (four kills, final 15) and I got hard disconnected. Large. Is it for attention? “I want my instant gratification! There are sites where you can just pay a couple of bitcoins, tell them where to point their lasers, and they’ll do all the DDoSing for you. Anonymity is great and all but can you prove the courage of your conviction? The attack comes after users had trouble logging into the Battle.net client, while others were disconnected from games while they were connected. Enter your email below. So mad. #blizzard #battlenet pic.twitter.com/fq6BAvePoJ, — LordMars???? Shows both large and unusual attacks. pic.twitter.com/ugbHz7QJwx, — peedroluucas_ (@peedroluucas2) March 18, 2020, I guess a few people are trying to play today… #blizzard #battlenet #COVID19 #gaming pic.twitter.com/tj9rCz03pt, — Phillip Reich (@PhillMReich) March 18, 2020, Never #bilzzard #battlenet #warzone #CallofDutyModernWarfare pic.twitter.com/tx20gzHHCf, — Tritone Jones ????

A script kiddie is someone who downloads LOIC and points it at a site and then thinks they are a 1337 h4x0r. Gotta admit, my first thought was, “I wonder if these ‘DDOS’ attacks are similar to the ‘DDOS attack’ that the Australian Census experienced when 20+ million Australians attempted to log in on Census Night. By “bitcoins” I just meant “units of mathematically derived pseudocurrency”. Sad stuff indeed. (@ARockToKick) March 18, 2020. The person/ Group behind this more than likely owns some kind of botnet/ Infrastructure to be able to output such volume.

Soooo… If anyone has some they’re giving away, I’ll take their fake money.

Privacy Policy. Quarantined so you got all the time to play some games? Queue to log in to battle.net? The internet is a great thing but just like real life it’s filled with assholes and losers. Or do they keep their ‘real talk’ for a keyboard? Like queues just to login to Battle.net. Shows the top reported attacks by size for a given day. Sounds like WoW Classic has invaded all the servers. Hahahahaha yep pretty spot on.

We're actively investigating an issue where players are unable to connect to BattleNet servers.

Servers went down Tuesday afternoon. Probably unrelated, taking into account that they had just released a new league, but Path of Exile also got hit by a DDOS. Or will you crumble like little bitches at the first sign of real consequences?

Wonder what goes through their heads?

A match of Overwatch? (@LordMxrs) March 18, 2020, gotta wait 169 minutes to just log into battlenet?? #battlenet time to upgrade your server.

Online services and internet providers are getting slammed right now, all because of the coronavirus and self-isolation. pic.twitter.com/0L3nQcrXl3, Am I the only one in queue?

As more companies try to cope with the unprecedented spike in daytime gaming and usage, expect more developers to run into similar problems.

Stay tuned for updates.

Branden 10 hours without WoW is crazy, but downtime I will have to live with.

Or roaming Azeroth?

Update: Though it seems the difficulties using the DDoS attack might be diminishing, it seems that Battle.net itself was under assault, affecting all Activision-Blizzard’s titles such as Overwatch and Warcraft. We are currently monitoring a DDOS attack against network providers which is affecting latency/connections to our games.

Impressive.

Xbox Live has had two hiccups in service over the last week, and days after expanding their video sharing limit from 10 to 50, Discord had an hour-long outage. Credit: Activision. Call of Duty, Overwatch, World of Warcraft Hit By DDoS Attack THe DDOS attack … You don’t even have to run a script. So naturally people are turning to video games, which is causing all sorts of problems people never thought they’d experience. A Battle.net DDOS attack is apparently underway on the official Activision-Blizzard gaming client, affecting everything from World of Warcraft to Call of Duty: Warzone.

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone servers are down. And I want it now!!!”. you want me to go out and socialize during this covid-19 shit blizzard? You’d have to have a serious grudge to fork over a couple of Bitcoins, I think this is more likely sociopathic script kiddies who’ve found themselves with too much time on their hands. Brings to mind BC with hour long login queues. There are going to be dickheads who try to make it worse for everyone. I seriously doubt this is script kiddies. Looks like it is a DDOS attack related to Overwatch and bringing down Battle.net for all games.. not good.

Global pandemic is gonna wreck a lot of stuff. Unusual. THIS IS HOW PEOPLE GET CORONAVIRUS!

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Wow, you can run a script. Deal with it like an adult. Yes, I wish to receive exclusive discounts, special offers and competitions from our partners.

Not necessarily the stuff you’d think of first. HahahahaApesar do lado ruim, também é visível o grande lado bom!

The DDoS attacks that hit World of Warcraft Classic started on September 7. — Blizzard CS – The Americas (@BlizzardCS) March 18, 2020. It is uncertain if this was solved entirely at this time, but it appears people have managed to return to games. How sad would you have to be to DDos stuff? I genuinely have no idea how much a bitcoin is actually worth, but I imagine it’s not a lot given it isn’t real money. WTF?? Shit happens. A DDoS attack is an attempt to make an online service unavailable to users.

https://t.co/raiEEHhq5t, battlenet is broken right now once it launches it minimizes to tray and you can't open it @BlizzardCS @ATVIAssist pic.twitter.com/IQGiPzqnjd. — Activision Support (@ATVIAssist) March 18, 2020.

As players started complaining of server issues, a person who goes by UkDrillas on Twitter took credit for the attacks…

Combined. Call Of Duty is down as servers are hit by a DDOS attack. Welp. Update: 5:07pm The official Blizzard account, and the Battle.net client, are now warning users that the service is being hit by a “DDoS attack against network providers”.

Let's vamos MW WZ.

— Nylls Hanson (@nyllshanson) March 18, 2020, Será que os servers do Battle net estão dando conta da popularidade do game hoje @pOkizGames . Yep… Pretty clear these people have never played during any sort of significant launch on the service, acting like queues for Bnet login have never been see before. Shows attacks on countries experiencing unusually high attack traffic for a given day.

When users did login, the client reported that there is “an issue that is affecting our authentication servers”.

Blizzard Mar 20, 2020 12:30 pm CT Blizzard has been fighting off DDOS attacks all week As one a huge gaming company with several high profile games that take place entirely or mostly online, Blizzard has always been a target for DDOS, or Distributed Denial of Service attacks.

Do they think it’s ‘dope’? In real life?

Are they the sort of people you’d want to sucker-punch in real life? Would they do the equivalent of this stuff in real life or are they just cowards?

We are currently monitoring a DDOS attack against network providers which is affecting latency/connections to our games.