World of Warcraft Down This July 16 With Authentication Issues (Update)

If you’re seeing World of Warcraft down reports surface this July 16, it’s not just you, as Blizzard has acknowledged that there are issues with the game’s authentication servers that’s affecting logins.

World of Warcraft Down With Authentication Server Issues Status This July 16:

Update: Login issues have been resolved!

[#Warcraft] The login issues have been resolved. Thanks for your patience and sorry for any inconvenience.

— Blizzard CS – The Americas (@BlizzardCS) July 17, 2023

Here’s the announcement from the studio:

[#Warcraft] We’re currently investigating an issue affecting our authentication servers, which may result in failed or slow login attempts.

— Blizzard CS – The Americas (@BlizzardCS) July 17, 2023

If you can somehow connect, leave a comment below to let us know which area you’re connecting from. Outside of today’s server outage, there is also planned maintenance this week for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Classic and Wrath of the Lich King Classic. You can read up about that here.

Speaking of Dragonflight, a new update was released last week, which you can read about here.

Once more news regarding today’s outage is shared, we’ll update the article.

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