Blizzard Activision's Overwatch and World of Warcraft experienced global server outages, preventing users from logging in to both gaming titles — some to no avail.
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Blizzard Activision's Overwatch, World of Warcraft Outage
As per a news story by DotEsports, some of the games of Activision Blizzard Entertainment, which are using the Battle.net service of the gaming firm, such as World of Warcraft and Overwatch, experienced a widespread global outage.
However, it is worth noting that another game, which also runs under Battle.net, is reportedly free from any server issues as of writing.
As such, players of both Overwatch and World of Warcraft have grappled with logging in to their accounts. Instead, they are greeted with prompts saying that the server connection of the game has failed.
Some users playing games during the outage have been kicked out from their ongoing matches, wherein they were notified regarding the connection mess.
Overwatch Server Outage
DotEsports noted in its report that massively popular streamers of the first-person shooter game Overwatch, namely Kephrii and Emongg, were also affected by the global outage.
Both Overwatch streamers were also thrown out of their ongoing match as the servers of the Blizzard game started to go wonky.
Meanwhile, according to the latest report by MP1st, an Overwatch subreddit has been flooded with players blurting out their frustrations on the connection login issues.
One Reddit user shared that he was also kicked out in the middle of his Overwatch game. He also attached a screenshot of the prompt that showed up after being booted out, which says that the player is "in queue." Plus, there were "5,000 players ahead" waiting to enter.
Apart from that, other Reddit users were also echoing server error complaints, saying that they have been kicked out from their matches, and could no longer sign back in.
World of Warcraft Server Down
Besides the reports from countless Overwatch gamers, several World of Warcraft players also complained that they were experiencing server issues.
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The server outage for some World of Warcraft players was similar to Overwatch, wherein users were booted out in the middle of their games.
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Server Outage Solved
The official Twitter account of Blizzard CS - The Americas announced that it has already resolved the connection mess on its games.
Blizzard went on to apologize for the inconvenience that the global outage has caused its users. The gaming firm also thanked players for their patience.
The login issues have been resolved. Thanks for your patience and sorry for any inconvenience.
— Blizzard CS - The Americas (@BlizzardCS) April 13, 2022
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