Blizzard Launch Day Login Outage Draws Musk's 'Machine Stops' Jab

Blizzard's new game suffered a lengthy login outage on launch day, prompting Elon Musk to quote Forster's 'The Machine Stops' and suggest that the loss of engineers who know how to keep systems running—hinting at layoffs—was to blame.

2026-09-16 ~ 2026-09-16 · 2 related posts

• Musk invokes Forster's The Machine Stops after Blizzard's launch-day login outage — elonmusk · 2026-09-16
• Musk: when the people who knew how to make the machine work are gone, it stops — elonmusk · 2026-09-16