There might still be no more word on that Arena of Valor PlayStation 4 port this week, but that doesn?t mean we don?t have a bunch of exciting topics to cover this time around. There?s the possibility of a Japan-only skin for Liliana, plenty of reshuffled esports pros, and a glaring spelling mistake that I can?t even begin to understand. And yes, I am that petty.
Facebook Outage Ripples Across Arena of Valor

A couple of days ago now both Facebook and Instagram went down. The company blamed some minor server tweak for knocking out the world?s leading social media platforms, and while most would think it would only affect their middle-aged mom?s ability to share 5 laughing baby videos during soap opera ad breaks, the issues had more widespread consequences; namely stopping certain Arena of Valor players from logging into the game. The issue comes as Arena of Valor allows users to bind their game accounts with their Facebook account for reasons that aren?t entirely clear. This can easily be done accidentally thanks to seemingly random login errors and badly worded on-screen pop-ups, and when it does, a user?s account is forever tied to the social network, meaning they can?t delete or deactivate their Facebook/Instagram account without losing their in-game progress.
So, as you might expect, losing access to the Facebook log-in servers for any amount of time means losing access to the game. You can see why so many players want Tencent to hurry up and allow us to de-link our acc...