Friday nights are typically a great time to get online and play some video games. Unless, of course, you can’t play due to a DDoS attack destroying your fun. That’s exactly what happened to Blizzard Entertainment’s Battle.net the Friday night after Thanksgiving. Frustratingly, this is not the only DDoS Blizzard has experienced this month.
The Battle.net launcher is what players use to log in to any of Blizzard’s games. Those games include: World of Warcraft, Diablo III, Starcraft II, and Hearthstone. Players who were already logged in and playing noticed some big problems and mentioned their experiences on Twitter.
Many said that the World of Warcraft servers had crashed. Some lamented the loss of their hardcore characters as issues plagued the Diablo III game. If your hardcore character dies, for any reason, it stays dead. That character can’t be “resurrected” and keep going – you have to start all over again.
The @BlizzardCS account on Twitter later confirmed that they were experiencing a DDoS attack.
http://t.co/WvZhATxtUO is being affected by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We are taking measures to improve stability.
— BlizzardCS (@BlizzardCS) November 29, 2014
About 90 minutes later, the @BlizzardCS account tweeted that things had been resolved.
Servers have continued to remain stable since our last update. Thank you all for your patience this evening!
— BlizzardCS (@BlizzardCS) November 29, 2014
Earlier this month, Blizzard released Warlords of Draenor, the fifth and newest expansion to World of Warcraft. That same day, a DDoS attack prevented players from accessing the game.