{"id":101954,"date":"2016-08-23T14:55:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T12:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=101954"},"modified":"2016-08-23T16:37:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T14:37:46","slug":"this-is-why-south-africans-are-struggling-to-play-blizzard-games-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/101954-this-is-why-south-africans-are-struggling-to-play-blizzard-games-online","title":{"rendered":"This is why South Africans are struggling to play Blizzard games online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Blizzard has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlizzardCSEU_EN\/status\/768088739507765248\" target=\"_blank\">stated <\/a><\/strong>that the network issues it was experiencing have been resolved.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Want to play a quick game of Overwatch? What about a quick round of Heartshtone?<\/p>\n<p>You may be waiting a while, as many European and South African gamers are reporting issues with Blizzard&#8217;s Battle.net servers.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard have subsequently confirmed that its EU servers were the target of a DDos attack.<\/p>\n<p>There is no word yet as to when we should expect the servers to be back online but we will keep you updated when Blizzard issues a fix.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We continue to actively monitor an ongoing DDOS attack against network providers, affecting latency\/connections to our games. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlizzCS?src=hash\">#BlizzCS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blizzard CS EU (@BlizzardCSEU_EN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlizzardCSEU_EN\/status\/768049820531646465\">August 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 6 things we do in video games but will never admit\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101774-6-things-we-do-in-video-games-but-will-never-admit.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">6 things we do in video games but will never admit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The South African gaming market is headed for massive trouble\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/101308-the-south-african-gaming-market-is-headed-for-massive-trouble.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The South African gaming market is headed for massive trouble<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 5 space exploration games to play instead of No Man\u2019s Sky\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101640-5-space-exploration-games-to-play-instead-of-no-mans-sky.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">5 space exploration games to play instead of No Man\u2019s Sky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why you can&#8217;t have a quick game of Overwatch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":92925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,11681],"tags":[3684,665,17586,19793,10799,2163],"class_list":["post-101954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","category-playstation","tag-battle-net","tag-blizzard","tag-down","tag-europe","tag-server","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101956,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101954\/revisions\/101956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}