For those on Azeroth trying to login but can’t, it’s not just you, as the World of Warcraft (WOW) servers are having issues this December 4, and this is something Blizzard Entertainment has acknowledged.

World of Warcraft Down With Server Issues This Dec. 4:

Update: Blizzard has announced that login issues have been resolved.

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— Blizzard CS – The Americas (@BlizzardCS) December 4, 2023

This server outage has been acknowledged by the official Blizzard Support Twitter account:

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

— Blizzard CS – The Americas (@BlizzardCS) December 4, 2023

And also by Blizzard on the game’s official Discord channel where mod Elleiana gave a few things players can do while waiting:

Things you can do while servers are down:

• Be calm.
• Drink some water.
• Take a shower.
  Go for a walk.
• Pet your pets.
• Touch some grass.
• Do some housework/chores.
• Learn a new skill.
• Draw a picture of a sheep.
• Call your parents/grandparents/loved ones. (You really should call them anyway)

Blizzard forum member Ghöstey posted the following:

Found something:

“WoW got hammered by an infrastructure change with very unexpected results, we’re working to get everything back up asap.”

“The root of this one is an update to the teeny little service that bootstraps the VMs and delivers OS updates etc. Deployed fine in test, on Live, WoW did not approve and we locked up our file stores globally. We’re left with a lot of manual cleanup to get things moving again.”

“Thankfully WoW’s site reliability engineers are awesome and are churning through the work, we’re making sure there’s no other surprises waiting for us and then we’ll get you back in as quickly as we can.”

In other WoW news, Blizzard has recently said that they are “well positioned” to bring World of Warcraft to consoles.

Once we know more about the server outage, we’ll update the article. If you can connect, leave a comment below and let us know from where you’re connecting from.