Is Battlenet down? If you’re settling in to play a few rounds of Hearthstone, but are unable to launch the game, or even the client, there’s a decent chance that Battlenet itself is experiencing an issue. With the majority of games being ‘always online’ these days, we are at the mercy of the game client, and if they’re having issues, we are too.

It doesn’t matter whether you want to hunt for loot in a Diablo 4 dungeon, or you want to group up with your friends and take down an entire Warzone 2 server, if Bnet is down, you’re out of luck. Turns out that our greatest foe was technical issues all along. If you can gain access to Battlenet, but things are moving very slowly, it’s worth checking out how to speed up your Battlenet downloads, so you can get back into the action as quickly as possible.

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