Because magic and fairy dust. Playstation network was DDoSed for several days to weeks couple of years ago.. well in the era of PS3. Blizzard battle.net went down for a weekend twice in row this year due to DDoS and that wasn't first time in their history.
Apr 14, 2016 · A DDoS attack on Blizzard Entertainment's Battle.net service causes many of the company's servers to be crippled, with players no longer able to play online. by Maxwell Jeffery Apr 14, 2016 Jul 10, 2018 · " The DDOS attacks against network providers that we were monitoring have it suggested that the attack was actually on the servers and providers that run Blizzard's Battle.net online services Mar 20, 2020 · This new DDoS attack is the second time the Battle.net servers have been disrupted in less than twelve hours. Around 8 PM EST, Blizzard’s NA Twitter announced that they were investigating reports of login and connection issues, prompting other Twitter users to ask why the occurrences were so common. Mar 21, 2020 · Blizzard took to Twitter a few hours ago to report a DDoS attack. More accurately, they were reporting another attack – the seventh in less than four days. In fact, it wasn’t even the first DDoS attack that they announced in the last twenty-four hours. The only upside is that they seem to not take too long.
Dec 07, 2016 · In August, three other similar DDoS attacks also occurred against Battle.net and forced its servers to go offline. VentureBeat reported that occurrence was the fourth time the servers were shut down .
While the DDoS attack has slowed down, and Blizzard seems to have it under control, login issues still persist for many Battle.net users. At the time of writing, Blizzard is still investigating connection issues for World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and Overwatch players.
Dec 07, 2016 · In August, three other similar DDoS attacks also occurred against Battle.net and forced its servers to go offline. VentureBeat reported that occurrence was the fourth time the servers were shut down .
Jan 03, 2014 · Battle.net and League of Legends services have been taken down by DDoS attacks, following a similar assault on Steam and EA’s Origin store. We first noticed the issue when trying to confirm a Various large-scale game platforms were hit by distributed denial-of-service attacks last night, including Valve's Steam platform, with the affects st Steam, Origin and Battle.net hit by DDoS Aug 23, 2016 · Blizzard and Battle.Net have been hit with major DDoS attack that has taken Battle Net and it’s content offline. Update as of 11:50a.m 24th Aug GMT. Blizzard have advise this DDoS attack has subsided and is no longer impacting services. The earlier issue affecting connections to our games/Bnet should now be resolved. Thanks for your patience. Apr 14, 2016 · This soon escalated when Lizard Squad claimed responsibility for the DDOS in a tweet, stating that all of their games connected to Battle.Net were offline. Coincidentally, Lizard Squad advertised their ‘services’ a few days earlier that promise ‘100% uptime’.