WoW Forever's servers went down on November 9, 2026, at about 21:45 UTC, in the Americas and in Europe, and players in Europe were back in the game about an hour later. In the game, a server message came first, which Wowhead reported at 21:55 UTC: "Sorry, we have to take the servers down briefly. A few mischievous murlocs have invaded the server room." Blizzard posted nothing about it on its forums or on its Bluesky accounts (read at 23:51 UTC).
What players saw
- The Battle.net app showed an emergency maintenance, with the game unavailable, a player wrote on Blizzard's European forums at 22:07 UTC.
- Around 22:15 UTC, logging in led to the ruleset screen and no further. At 22:24, players could log in, but no ruleset was available: the case our error codes page describes under WOW51900309.
- From 22:42 UTC, players wrote on the European forums that they were back in the game. In the Americas, players asked Blizzard for an estimate on the forums until 22:41 UTC, with no answer.