Diablo 4 and other Blizzard games DDoS attacks “have ended”, says Blizzard

Blizzard has confirmed that the DDoS attacks which have plagued its games, together with Diablo 4, for many of the weekend are actually over.

Earlier in the present day, Blizzard confirmed that it was “currently investigating an issue affecting our authentication servers, which may result in failed or slow login attempts”, while gamers took to social media to share screenshots of notifications that had popped up on Battle.internet, explicitly confirming that it was a “DDoS attack” that was ensuing “in high latency and disconnections for some players”. 

After promising that the staff was “actively working to mitigate this issue”, the account later posted an replace: “We continue to actively monitor an ongoing DDOS attack which is affecting latency/connections to our games”. No estimated date or time for a decision was offered at the moment.

Fast-forward to this night, nevertheless, and it appears the difficulty has now been resolved. 

“The DDOS attacks that we were monitoring have ended,” the staff revealed, earlier than linking gamers nonetheless reporting points to a troubleshooting web page. 

“Perhaps Diablo 4’s most adventurous quality is the move towards an open world in the ‘modern’ sense,” we wrote in our Diablo 4 assessment.

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Blizzard’s Rod Fergusson lately revealed that you may have to make a model new character to participate in Diablo 4’s upcoming battle go. 

The battle go – which is scheduled to launch in mid-to-late July, together with other seasonal content material – implies that your present character (full with class upgrades and gear) will not have the ability to expertise the brand new content material as you may have to begin from scratch. 

Writing on Twitter, Fergusson – the overall supervisor of Diablo – said that: “to take part in the seasonal questline, mechanics, season journey and battle pass, you will need to create a new seasonal character”.