UPDATE: Blizzard has resolved the issues with Battle.net, leaving customers free to play the company's games again.
[#Bnet] The login issues have been resolved. Thanks for your patience and sorry for any inconvenience.
— Blizzard CS EU (@BlizzardCSEU_EN) October 5, 2023
ORIGINAL STORY: Blizzard has apologised to its players after Battle.net suffered login issues.
An issue affecting the company’s authentication services caused slow or failed login attempts. At the time of this article’s publication, Battle.net was down.
Blizzard said it was investigating the cause. “We apologise once again for the inconvenience caused by today's outages, we're working to resolve this ASAP,” reads the latest tweet from Blizzard’s customer service page.
[#Bnet] We apologise once again for the inconvenience caused by today's outages, we're working to resolve this ASAP.
— Blizzard CS EU (@BlizzardCSEU_EN) October 5, 2023
Battle.net’s outage renders many of Blizzard’s game unplayable. The always-online Diablo 4, for example, is currently unplayable on PC. Blizzard announced Diablo 4 will join Overwatch 2 on rival platform Steam later in October.
The outage comes the morning after Blizzard unveiled sweeping changes coming to Diablo 4 with the launch of Season 2, dubbed Season of Blood, later this month. World of Warcraft, meanwhile, is set for a major blowout of information at BlizzCon in November.
Blizzard has yet to announce a timeframe for a Battle.net fix. IGN will update as more information becomes available.
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