Originally posted by gessekai332

"The Servers are busy at this time. Please try again later (Error 37)."

No sh*t the servers are busy. Blizzard has been in the business for over a decade but dont know what a login queue is. to top it off theyre already mass deleting threads on their forum cuz everyone is massivlely pissed at this debaucle. they make 1 billion dollars a year, cant put some of that into temporarily increasing the number of login servers during launch. blizzard ftw +1.

Installed yesterday evening, logged in this morning at 3:30AM, no queue and only my insomnia friend online, playing his Witchdoctor.

The US will be screwed I believe, at least for today. But let's be real, it's not worth it to reserve extra resources just for the initial login. It will only happen now (and perhaps after the release of an expansion), because normally people login and -out all the time. More spread out. Now it's just one huge wave of logins, which slows down the whole process. People need to be patient, because in the end, you can whine all you want, but it wont help you getting in faster.

Originally posted by SuperXero89

We can send a man to the moon, but we can't figure out a way to smooth out server overloading.  I always chuckle at that.

the problem lies in requireing battlenet for single player, since wow logins already keep battlenet flooded to near capacity 24 7, + starcraft 2 online play, throw in diablo, which has millions of fans that dont play wow or sc2, and now battlenet is on fire, unable to handle the massive waves of napalm pouring over it as it over heats and ignites.

wooo I got to loading hero list but then I got time out message .

CTRL V  ftw :)

Blizzard releases are always like this. Even expansions. They obviously don't care. And it won't be an issue once everyone isn't trying to log in simultaneously. The best solution is for everyone to wait ten minutes between log attempts. That way we spread out the load on the authentication server, and we can all get in sooner.

LoL They took down their site.

If  only they would have given us our single player greedy bastard.

Everyone should have expected this, I certainly did, especially after it just happened to asian and EU servers...

Get some patience and lose the self entitlement.

Technology is limited. There are probably a couple million trying to log in right now.

Originally posted by Leodious

Blizzard releases are always like this. Even expansions. They obviously don't care. And it won't be an issue once everyone isn't trying to log in simultaneously. The best solution is for everyone to wait ten minutes between log attempts. That way we spread out the load on the authentication server, and we can all get in sooner.

10 mins wasted now is $100 lost on the auction house next week .. lol just kidding ! :)

A que on log in server would save the problem  then you only log in 1 time  .

still think having to be online to play single player was a good idea? :)

I might order it in the future...but its gonna suck if i have to play single player while online. I travel for work alot :(

create hero button is hardest mob yet

Originally posted by neorandom

Originally posted by SuperXero89

We can send a man to the moon, but we can't figure out a way to smooth out server overloading.  I always chuckle at that.

the problem lies in requireing battlenet for single player, since wow logins already keep battlenet flooded to near capacity 24 7, + starcraft 2 online play, throw in diablo, which has millions of fans that dont play wow or sc2, and now battlenet is on fire, unable to handle the massive waves of napalm pouring over it as it over heats and ignites.

+1 Seriously ... this is not a damn mmo... it's  a single player game! I still can't believe people are just accepting that they have to login to play a single player game....

guess  i'm getting too old...

Originally posted by miagisan

still think having to be online to play single player was a good idea? :)

 

I might order it in the future...but its gonna suck if i have to play single player while online. I travel for work alot :(

hotel free wifi ftw.

i work at a resort hotel, i keep our wifi in top condition since i use it to play games at work.

AHAHAHAHA THEY JUST CLOSED THEIR OFFICIAL FORUMS, WHAT NUMBNUTS

im playing fine

Originally posted by jonchicoine

Originally posted by neorandom

Originally posted by SuperXero89

We can send a man to the moon, but we can't figure out a way to smooth out server overloading.  I always chuckle at that.

the problem lies in requireing battlenet for single player, since wow logins already keep battlenet flooded to near capacity 24 7, + starcraft 2 online play, throw in diablo, which has millions of fans that dont play wow or sc2, and now battlenet is on fire, unable to handle the massive waves of napalm pouring over it as it over heats and ignites.

+1 Seriously ... this is not a damn mmo... it's  a single player game! I still can't believe people are just accepting that they have to login to play a single player game....

 

guess  i'm getting too old...

d2 let us play offline, of course this lead to useing jamella to make our characters have 999 all stats 99 all skills and 9999999 gold at level 99.  hehe

No dice here - Create Hero is still timing out over and over again :(

Originally posted by fascism

im playing fine

lies or else you wouldn't be on the forums

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/117151-Diablo-III-Launch-May-Get-Messy

All the haters need to STFU!!! Blizzard knew exactly what they were getting into. They know what the hell they are dong.  Give them some f'in credit.  If you can't handle that, turn your copy back in and get your money back.  Plain and simple.  Don't buy a copy of a game then whine and moan that you can't play it the minute the online servers go live.  It doesn't work that way.  D3 was a WORLDWIDE SIMUELTANEOUS RELEASE!!!  This means in ALL the markets that Blizz operates have access to the servers.  Any server that is allocated to the game is going to see hundred of thousands of users logging on at once.  Server busy errors are going to happen.  DEAL WITH IT!!!

This was a very highly anticipated game and they wanted enjoyment for all, instead of doing staggered releases for it.  It wouldn't be fair for one country to be able to play it first, especially with a game as huge as D3.

As far as load balancing the servers, to be able to balance something, you have to find out the extremes.  In the article, Blizz was calling for login delays to control the flow.  If the servers crashed at launch, D3 would be DOA and Blizz would have a huge amount of egg on the face, a major quarterly loss, followed my mass layoffs.

A lot of us gamers are currently unemployed. I myself have been without a job since last Nov.  On my system, I have no shortage of alternate games I can play.  I'll wait a few days for them to get the kinks out.  Launch day is just asking too much.

(For any of those I have offended, grow a backbone will ya!)

got in on the first try, Alt+Tab out occasionally to watch LoL streams and read a forum, i've done the first part of act 1 about 10 times as we all have im sure so im having a hard time focusing

This game is so hardcore that the first level is a frantic battle past the hoards of zombie hamsters killed by the falling star.

You don't have a lot of options, but if you keep spamming password, login, ok, you get to another room with create and back.  If you press back, you suffer permadeath and have to start over, otherwise you have to face the guantlet of evil 3006 and 3000008 wraiths.  I haven't seen the level after that, but it's a pretty challenging game so far!

( ok,ok, I'm not disagreeing with the OP, I'm just making the best lemonaide I can out of it, knowing that in a few hours/days, once the initial crush passes by, all tonight's disappointments will likely be forgotten and forgiven anyway )

I'm surprised they didn't have some type of rolling starts based on time zones..