Activision Blizzard, Inc. is an American designer and author of video games, developed in 2007 by the merging between Activision and also Vivaldi Games. It is one of the biggest video clip game publishers worldwide, and the developer consisting of the incredibly popular game Call of Duty. The company remains in turmoil from summer of 2021, following the denunciation of sexist acts and aggression.
It is clear that Activision Blizzard does not go through its best moment. Nor in terms of the image that gives off as a company or regarding the success of its video games. In relation to the first, it has fallen into a stock exchange in the last month; About the second, nor his most popular franchise is working, with Call of Duty: Vanguard with worst numbers if we compare it to previous deliveries.
As it does not win for dislikes, this week another one has joined. The Blizzard platform, Battle.net, has suffered a DDoS attack directed towards your servers that has directly affected several brand games. Those responsible were intended to lead massive traffic to servers and have achieved it, causing partial falls from them.
Thus, titles such as Call of Duty: War zone, Diablo II: Resurrected or World of Warcraft have had problems, as some users have reported. Players have been affected by connection errors related to latency in these games, but also with unexpected session closures. We do not know if the attack has been caused due to the current situation of the company but, in any case, has already been solved.
It is worth remembering that Activision Blizzard is going through the most complicated moment of its history at the image level. The cases of harassment and discrimination in the Company have unleashed a whole series of controversies that have climbed up to the president himself, Bobby Kick, which continues without resign despite the numerous requests of employees and pressures of the industry.
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