Authentication issues tonight [Updated]

by Adam Holisky Mar 14th 2009 at 11:27PM

In the last fifteen minutes or so we've received numerous reports that authentication servers are down for North American realms. While the outage does not appear to be affecting anyone in game, those folks logging in will be stuck at "authenticating" for the time being.

There has been no word from Blizzard about this, but if we've gotten a dozen tips about this in the past fifteen minutes, I'm sure they have too.

We'll update this post when we have more information.

Update #1: Speak of the devil, there's a blue post about this now.

Update #2: It appears the issue is now resolved.

Tags: auth, authentication, authentication-server, fail-scv, login-problem, server, server-status, wow-authentication, wow-login, wow-realm-status, wow-server-stauts

Filed under: Realm Status, News items

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Dischordant Mar 14th 2009 11:31PM

Oh, good, so it isn't just me ;x

brucimus Mar 14th 2009 11:31PM

I guess i'll watch SNL instead...

Adam Holisky Mar 14th 2009 11:31PM

Tracey Morgan FTW. The girlfriend and I are just about to go watch it.

Obi-Habby Mar 15th 2009 12:00AM

Bad Adam. Tracey hasn't been on SNL for like 7 years. You are thinking of 30 Rock sir, and that show is amazing.

Adam Holisky Mar 15th 2009 12:15AM

Fact check.

He's actually hosting tonight.

Obi-Habby Mar 15th 2009 12:28PM

Well played sir.

Koskun Mar 14th 2009 11:31PM

Right now (11:30 pm est), the Authentication server isn't even activating. It immediately try's to connect, so it isn't authenticating your account.

Adam Holisky Mar 14th 2009 11:32PM

That's not true. Blizzard would not bypass authentication all together. If that were the case, everyone could log into everyone else's account and hell would ensue.

Koskun Mar 15th 2009 1:24AM

@ Adam Holisky - No. Without the Authentication server everyone can attempt to log in, but it doesn't authenticate, so you don't get to the server.

When the Authentication server is down it sees the login attempts, but since it can't verify it is a game client attempting to log in it does not let you get any further.

tc chong Mar 14th 2009 11:32PM

jus got ld from a WG battle... now i am stuck at authentication ...

Sunny Mar 14th 2009 11:32PM

I just got home from work and was planning on doing some dailies quick and going to bed! Boo.

Illidan Mar 14th 2009 11:32PM

thanks, been struggling with this for about a half hour now and was wondering if it was just me.

Nick Mar 14th 2009 11:33PM

Hope my guild doesn't think I'm ditching Sarth3D..

AtomB Mar 14th 2009 11:33PM

my naxx raid was to start 5 minutes ago. :(

Truffled Mar 14th 2009 11:34PM

I can't even get the blue post to load. Could someone copy and post what it says?

Thander Mar 14th 2009 11:39PM

It basically says they are aware of the issue and working on it.

They have no ETA like always. I can't post exact quote because I can't get it to load anymore.

The forums are unusable in times like this because everyone and his brother is trying to find out what's going on by checking the forums.

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