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The Battle.net client is down and gamers aren’t too happy
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Updated onMarch 25, 2020
updated onMarch 25, 2020
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If you’re an avid fan ofStarcraft, Warcraft, Overwatch and more of Blizzard’s beloved titles, then you’ll be extremely disappointed to hear that Blizzard’s very own Battle.net is currently out for the count.
Gamer’s aren’t happy about Battle.net’s downtime
Reports about the issue first started pouring in onRedditwhen users observed that they are getting anerror messagewhenever they try logging into it:
I restarted my computer last night and went to play Overwatch this morning and battle.net wouldn’t let me access my games library. I googled my error code BLZBNTBNA00000005, where one of the apparent fixes was to uninstall and reinstall battle.net.
Similar reports have started pouring in fromTwitteras well, and as expected,gamerscannot log into their favorite games anymore.
myhttp://battle.netstuck on “Blizzard Agent went to sleep. Attempting to wake it up….. More help: BLZBNTBNA00000005” for like a hour now.
For those of you that don’t know, Battle.Net it Activision Blizzard’s proprietary game launcher. You need to have it in order to install, update, patch and launch any of your Blizzard games.
That being said, any inability to launch this program means you will not be able to do anything with any of your Blizzard games.
If you are facing any type of difficulties with your Battle.netclient, do check out these useful guides that will find helpful:
If your Battle.netclientis working perfectly, but you have issues with some of Blizzard’s games, check out these articles that will help you solve them:
No official statement regarding the issue has been made public, and it seems allgamerscan do is wait for the problems to sort itself out.
If you’re looking for other articles regarding Blizzard’s Battle.net or any of their game, go ahead and check out theseuseful articles.
What’s your take on Blizzard’s latest issue? Share your thoughts in the comments section below and we’ll continue the talk.
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Coming from a solid background in PC building and software development, he’s a Windows 11 Privacy & Security expert.
