That’s your personal experience. Doesn’t account for the entire world. I’ve endured DDoS in several games and on several websites and my own ISP as well.
This happens to many games. Usually not as bad as an entire company’s game catalog like this. The second expansion to FF14, Stormblood had this issue. Massive DDOS attack first couple of days that borked instance servers, so players couldn’t get more than an hour into the story before progress was halted by an instanced fight that couldn’t handle the traffic. People were forming lines in front of the NPC entire zones long to attempt to do it in an orderly fashion for folks to progress.
Does anyone remember when Netflix had its last DDOS or service outage? I sure don’t, and their bandwidth requirements far outpace virtually everyone else on the web. Guess who provides their server resources? If you answered AWS, you are correct! 
Good luck with that…I don’t trust the game’s stability at the best of times, certainly not while the servers are under concerted attack.
It is hitting ALL the servers. I can’t even get into Bnet app. So either today is a record day in Blizzard gaming for Volume across the board - higher than launches, betas, weekends, normal holidays, OR it is actually a DDOS attack.
One is more logical than the other.
We just had the Pandemic where people were on lockdown, bored, and doing tons of gaming. Servers can handle people being home and having free time.
Sadly, true.
I don’t see what the DDOS idiots get out of it besides making people miserable and unable to access things. There is no financial gain. There is no benefit. Nothing…just being a giant annoyance to the players.
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Clout. Grows their following and their name. Folks like Anonymous enjoy the publicity - they even publicly claim responsibility for it.
Well, it seems like the recent allegations could be related.
Uhhh hey brainiac… just how many games out there have a real money incentive to dupe items?
Why would people DDOS Call of Duty?
Exactly this. I’ve been told by a few people who have worked there over the years that hackers really enjoy DDoSing on holidays to force people to come into work, or take advantage of them not being there to respond.
They are obviously referring to the historical fact that server instability was indicative of people duping items and other nefarious things. The idea that blizzard has eradicated this is simply not true.
These hacker groups sometimes like to think that they are providing a service by exploiting a weakness in systems, when all they really do, is bork over average folk. Like what happened with Sony back in 2011 that caused PSN to be pulled for a month. Not only did it affect gamers, but affected game development companies testing cycles (cries in WKC2 cut features due to this).
That’s your personal experience. Out of 5-6 DDOS attacks all of them were blizzard. Name another game you played that you experienced DDOS in cos talk means nothing.
To get “revenge” against ATVI the stockholder company over both Activision Publishing and Blizzard Entertainment who are all 3 involved in staff mistreatment lawsuits. CoD is their flagship franchise so it gets “notice”.
They are taking down all Blizzard - and anything that launches through the Bnet launcher (including CoD, OW, WoW, D3, HS, etc.), not just one 20 year old game.
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Uhh hey brainiac. You ever been to Asia? Almost all game items are traded for cash there.
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Playing around with Blizzard Looking Glass, I noticed that one point on the WoW traceroute is taking a pingtime beating. ~1600 ms. 
W–…what? lol. Never mind. You do you.
mmm… delicious raid wipe-inducing lag!
This is what Greed gets them f em
Well, I guess a nap is in order since I can’t play. Maybe things will be sorted after naptime. 
Thats a weird way to admit you have only ever played blizz games. Get out more, bruh.