Quarantined Gamers get Gaming Services to their knees
Since a large part of the world have entered voluntary and/or involuntary quarantine, it seems to have become a problem for the world’s gaming services to keep up with capacity, several sources report.
Since this weekend, there have been operating problems on most of the world’s gaming services. Services such as Xbox Live, PSN and Nintendo Switch Online have had problems, as many simultaneous users have tried to connect to their services. In addition to these three, there have been disruptions in services and games such as Overwatch, Blizzards Battle.net, Runescape, Counter-Strike, Steam and Minecraft.
In addition to just the game services themselves, surrounding services also appear to have had capacity problems. Both the game chat service Discord as well as the game streaming service Twitch must have had trouble keeping their services up in recent days.