No new games can be created right now

hello, im checking in because i just started experiencing and issue playing diablo 2 on battle.net. all of a sudden i just started getting a message saying " no new games can be created right now please join a game or try again later.". only issue is i get this message when trying to join a game, when i try to create a game it says i have been entered in to a queue my place is “a number which started at 17,000” i have been playing diablo 2 since i was about 8 years old, about 20 years and never experienced this issue, what is the cause of this issue? and how can i correct it? thank you.
- sincerely an avid and life long fan.

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