Activision Blizzard, which was announced to be acquired by Microsoft in the past months; It includes Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and many more popular games worldwide and serves millions of gamers. However, the news today revealed that the company was having problems with its servers.
Today, many players reported that they had difficulty logging in to the Battle.net service with their posts. In addition, reviews on Downdetector showed that problems were reported in many countries. The giant company also accepted the problem with the statements it made this morning.
Unable to connect to servers for hours as a result of an attack
It turned out that the servers crashed as a result of a DDOS attack after the complaints of the players. This issue prevented users from accessing popular games like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch. It was also stated that the attack affected Hearthstone and Diablo: Immortal games.
After the company’s statements, “We continue to actively investigate a DDOS attack affecting access to our games”, the servers could not be connected for hours and players had problems accessing them. Fortunately, the problem was resolved about three and a half hours after it was detected. Blizzard announced this news on Twitter with the words, “The attacks we’re investigating are over.” No information was shared about who organized the attack or why.
Modern Warfare 2, which will be released soon, has not fallen off the agenda of recent times, the giant company plans to release productions such as Warzone 2 and Overwatch 2 in the coming months. In addition, let’s not forget that Activision Blizzard will organize an event tomorrow that will include new information about Call of Duty games.