[Main Thread] - Can not create or join games - "character is already in a game"

[Donjarfi-1831]

Battle.net ID: Donjarfi#1831
Character: MrPonyKeg
Platform: PlayStation 5
PSN (if needed): MrPonyKeg
Region: Americas
Estimated lockout time: 2:30 EST

Please fix this.

[davfer-1886]

battle tag: davfer#1356
Character: Davfer
Region: Americas
Platform: PC
Locked for 2 hours so far

[Jollykana-2563]

Account Jollykana#2563
Character: Jollykana and well all others for that matter

PC

Cannot join or create game, “char already in a game”. (for main char Jollykana)

With other chars its just a black screen and nothing happens when trying to load into game

[Evolves-1421]

Evolves#1421
Character: Evo_paladin
Region: EU
Platform: PC

[Ignigknot-1916]

Ignigknot#1916
Character: apexfroyo and any new character
Region: NA
Platform: PC
Timelocked: 2pm EST

[Fooman-11164]

This was from a tweet from Blizzard CS earlier today. It should be fixed by 1:30p Pacific/4:30p Eastern.

Diablo II: Resurrected - 9.26 Update

Hello everyone, At 10:30 AM (PDT) we will begin server maintenance (across all platforms) that will last approximately 2-3 hours. This will only impact half of the servers affected, as we’re restarting the servers to deploy a fix for the character lock issue. As we approach the deploy time (10:30 AM PDT), we recommend that you log off prior to the servers restarting to avoid losing character progress. If you encounter bugs, please continue to report them in the Bug Report forum. And if you …

[json-1352]

“Character is already in a game”:

Battle.Net Tag: json#1352
Character: Drew
Region: Americas

[azrealx-1650]

Battle Tag Azreal#1650
Character Daqura
Platform PC
region America
estimated lock out 3:30 est
Please help

[xMythicx-1869]

Same here. Please help!

xMythicx#1869
Character: SlayerOfStuff
Region: US
Platform: PC

[SaviorSix-1106]

Been locked out since around 13:30 UTC, so around 2:30
Server : Americas
SaviorSix#1106
Character : Vulkan
I was in a game at the same time of the maintenance and it crashed, then character dissapeared and when it reappeared, its started the current issue of not being able to create or join a game.

[EEsama-21639]

HELP！
EEsama#21639
Character: EEsama
Region: EU
Platform: PC

[Fooman-11164]

Diablo II: Resurrected - 9.26 Update

Hello everyone, At 10:30 AM (PDT) we will begin server maintenance (across all platforms) that will last approximately 2-3 hours. This will only impact half of the servers affected, as we’re restarting the servers to deploy a fix for the character lock issue. As we approach the deploy time (10:30 AM PDT), we recommend that you log off prior to the servers restarting to avoid losing character progress. If you encounter bugs, please continue to report them in the Bug Report forum. And if you …

[OrderedChaos-11803]

OrderedChaos#11803
Ordered_Chaos
pc
11am PDT

[JM68-1883]

1. 2:30PM ± 1 hours
2. EST
3. PC

[Heliosphan-2270]

Got stuck at:
Time: 20:15
Zone: CEST
Platform: PC

[Arqbust-11721]

Character name: Gore
locked out time: 3 hours
Message: Character is already in a game.
Last Played game: Normal cow land, Killed Meph, Baal, and Andy. I left to help level up a friend in their new game. When joining I got the message and have not been able to join a game since.

[Awaken-2216]

“Character is already in a game”:

Battle.Net Tag: awaken#2216
Character: Etherlady
platform: PC
Region: EU
GMT+2, it happened around 8:30PM

[SuperMage-1335432]

B tag SuperMage#1335432

Char Stewart

Platform Xbox

[xMythicx-1869]

Nice! I’ll give it another 20-25 minutes and see what happens. Thanks for the update!

[Suwah-2244]

Stuck since 1.5hours ago.
Suwah#2244
Europe
Char: Suwcik
Was in game at the start of maint. Then couldnt login and now my char is stuck.