You cannot play ranked Hearthstone proper now – here is why

Going to the Hearthstone shopper nonetheless permits you to click on by way of to start a ranked recreation, however clicking play brings up an error message telling gamers they’ll’t connect with their recreation. Blizzard tweeted final night time to acknowledge the problem, and after I tried to load up a recreation a couple of minutes earlier than time of writing, I used to be nonetheless seeing the error message.

Several neighborhood managers have posted relating to the problems over the previous few hours. The most up-to-date (and related) of these updates took place 5 hours in the past, when Aratil posted to the boards to say that “we have identified the cause of the issues with Ranked Play progression, and are working on a resolution. While we continue to work on this, Ranked Play will be in extended maintenance.” You can try the complete thread, which will probably be up to date as Blizzard determine an answer, here.

It’s removed from ideally suited timing for Blizzard, who had been most likely hoping to stoke some pleasure for the upcoming Year of the Raven, which was announced earlier this week. There’ll be extra details about that someday later this month, earlier than a full launch doubtless scheduled for April.