I’m experiencing a serious issue where I (and several others) cannot join many custom game lobbies. When invited directly by friends (in real life), I receive the following error:
“The game you attempted to join could not be found. You may have entered the name incorrectly or the game creator may have cancelled the game.”
These lobbies do not appear in the custom games list for me — even though they are live and hosted by friends.
In some cases, I can see public lobbies in the list, but when I try to join them, I get this error instead:
“The game name you searched for does not exist or could not be found. Confirm the spelling and try again.”
To be clear: I’m not searching manually — I’m clicking lobbies that are visibly available.
I’ve already tried the following with no success:
Deleting the Maps folder
Repairing the game via Battle.net
Switching to a different region and switching back
Fully restarting both WC3 and my computer
Completely uninstalling and reinstalling WC3
Manually deleting all related folders in:
%AppData%, %ProgramData%, Documents\Warcraft III, and Program Files (x86)
This issue began immediately after the Battle.net password/login problems two days ago. Everything worked fine before then.
Please help — I cannot join any of my friends’ games, and public lobbies also fail to connect.
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: This is still going on. We can download maps that are hosted but cannot join lobbies. Please address
Hello Blizzard dot com!
I am also having the same problem!
I am also seeing many lobbies with zero players!
Earlier this week, I also wasn’t able to view customs games at all, and was told my Battle dot net password was the issue! It wasn’t!
Are these connected? I don’t know!
Same here… and CRICKETS from Blizzard.
They aren’t even admitting they are aware of this issue.
How long do we have to wait? a couple of weeks?
Complete garbage.
Does Blizzard respond at all?
Dear Blizzard. I am also encountering this problem. I tried switching servers, deleting folders, reinstalling and the problem still persists. Please help.
Same issue here…it’s been bugged/not working normally for the past 4-5 days. Cannot join the majority of the games, maybe it works once every 10-15 games. When I host, none of my friends see the game and cannot join. No one else seems to be able to join either.
Wasted so much time trying to troubleshoot Internet and firewall settings only to then find out Blizzard cannot fix their servers?! None of my friends can play…occasionally even the create game button doesn’t work