Why, Bill, Why?

Why can't we log on?

I agree with you 150% Bill-O....This is some BULLSHIT....

At 9am European people have better things to do than to play Diablo 3 (though I wish I didn't), hence the lack of issues on this side of the pond.

Blizzard not being able to handle all the logins at launch on the US side is definately no surprise to me. Don't think they ever launched something that didn't include 1-2 days of login congestion.

yep were europeans are awesome...

"Stay a while, and look at this error screen!"

Lolz :)

Ah well, seems the tables are turned for a change. *consoles NA peoples*

HAHA

EXCELLENT

PWNT

nelson, mr burns, my inner demon.

And this is why I didn't buy day one... that and it's got pretty much the worst review to hype ratio possible.

Actually EU had the same problem at launch. Took me about an hour to get in the game :P

a smart man would have waited an hour or 2 after the floodgates opened before even trying to battle the denizens of the hell that is below

Sorry i thought diablo was a single player rgp. why doesn't it have an offline mode?

I'm with you, Bill. I have no interest in co-op mode or cash auctions. This notion of everything having to be hooked to the internet is ridiculous! It's Diablo (or a reasonable facsimile) after all!

This debacle is only making Torchlight 2 look better.

The level of fail that comes to mind reading this is almost limitless. 

And my contempt is not for Blizzard.

The Sheer quanity of POSTs , Blogs, Articles etc about this "Always on DRM" and Blizzard still doesnt care...

Like Most people, Diablo 3, is a deal breaker for me, i should be able to play my singleplayer game when i want. i've only ever rarely played D2 multiplayer, and like many the type who prefer this as a single player game. Dont care much for an auction house, so why should so many be penalised.

Im simply not buying the game. i'll look towards their competition or play something else that doesnt have these silly problems.

While i am not a fan of the "always on DRM" i can kinda see their point, starcraft 2 was the 9th most illegally downloaded game of all time at approximately 3.14 million downloads.

source : http://www.coolpctips.com/2012/05/all-time-best-pc-games-record-highest-illegal-downloads-top-pirated/

this DRM should prevent that loss of revenue

sucks for us but it is a business at the end of the day

They could still have a system like an MMO that if you want to play with others etc (like starcraft) you have to have a legit key.

'always on DRM' isnt the solution because their game is based on an old model of revenue, it will always eventually be cracked....

Blizzard came from such humble beginnings. shame they are taking the road of maxium profits / screw the fans.

microsoft and Apple came from some pretty humble beginnings as well

no, it can't be cracked without full server emulation

Teehee if you queue at a store with half the population of the world you will have to wait longer. This is what we are dealing with here.

If they can server emulate WOW.  D3 should be a cakewalk

I wonder if it would worth the effort/cost to include a "the servers are down/busy" minigame/distraction that can be played offline while the client quietly retries in the background and keeps people from manually spamming the login servers like it's a boss fight.

(I have this strange urge to playing "lemmings" whenever a server I'm trying to get into is down)

10 million WoW subscribers can log on without a hitch... yet D3 customers...

here it is EST 6:14 and i can't even connect to battlenet the first couple of times i was in a queue for a single player game, dafuq is blizzard thinking?

Whatever gave the writer the wildly inaccurate impression that everything is just peachy on the EU servers?

Witness this little 771 pages long thread for instance: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4064636470?page=771

Personally it took me two hours and countless attempts before I finally got through last night after the EU launch.

I was foolish enough to log out later in the night, but thankfully I got in somewhat faster the second time.

Most of today it's been impossible for me to log in to the EU server (been some hours since my last try, planning on giving it a go again in around an hour). No luck on the US server either, but I did manage to start a character on the Asian server. Reportedly that one was taking down for "maintenance" not long after I logged out.

Maybe after all it was good choice of mine getting a physical copy (from cheapest place I found). By the time it arrives those problems will be fixed! :)

Ehm, am I reading this right? A log in queue even if you only play it as single player game? If so, what is the benefit of playing online then ?

innovation at it's finest

thx Blizz

Yeah, I never played diablo2 online cept lan with friends and I really dislike this bs with battlenet.  It's weak sauce at its weakest.

After service, I wish to do battle with the dark one in my permutive light,

I went to (GameStop) Rosemead, Ca and tried purchase my reserve copy which they  said I had to go to Pico Rivera, Ca. where I reserved it 4 years ago as a joke.

debts to be paid,

Glad they told me they could not sell it out to me by the suffering

of your comments,

Thank You.

Livewen Hallvean.

what happen to blizzard is in the exact

is why i quit the hurters and the payers of wow. until they earn it.

f2p is only.  payable if they deserve it only

Praise be the makers who have gotten that

message but many have tried and few receive it

I end no sentence unless it deserves it.