It appears the internet is once again going down with no applause whatsoever. For the third time in about a month, global services are suffering outages, slowdowns, and general connectivity issues, including popular live-service games.
What couldn't have been said of the early 2000s, when everything you owned you could play offline, is now a grim reality. As per Downdetector, nearly every popular gaming and gaming-related service is suffering significant outages, slowdowns, and problems with connection, including games like ARC Raiders, Fortnite, Apex Legends, and Palworld, but also Steam and the Epic Games Store.
Whereas the last major outage was caused by Cloudflare going down, and a previous one by massive AI-backed DDOS attacks, there does not seem to be a clear cause this time around.
I've even noticed that platforms like Reddit, WordPress, Trello, and others are loading forever, and that was after making sure it wasn't just my wi-fi being dumb.
And it's a crying shame that we live in a world where everything is always online. Sure, the games above are live service multiplayer experiences that could not be otherwise played without an internet connection, but so many other experiences that are broadly single-player are bound to be affected.
Always-online singleplayer games are our reality because publishers simply cannot let us enjoy things off the grid, and so even if a game has no online features, it still has to connect (and can, therefore, crash if stuff like this happens).
The timeline is only getting worse, but if you're among the affected, then check out some of our guides (like the one for ARC Raiders) in case the issues resolve, but you're still stuck in the dark. Literally.
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