To be honest I thought blizzard would be intellegent enough to input a login que but...guess not.  Oh well, now we'll have to wait.

They probably considered it... but then realized people who wanted to play single-player only having to wait in Queue would get pissed... so they opted to make unplayable for all!

and people where bitching about the gw2 stress test. This is more unforgiving. Blizzard knows well. has alot of experience. and still evry launch fucks up.

GG

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.

Just another example of cheap companies not wanting to spend money is all.

Should have not bought the game, now just a waste of time.

With the cloud technology available today, it hardly costs them anything to increase the login server capacity temporarely and phase them out later on, when load decreases!

This is totally unnacceptable for a multi billion dollar bussiness like Blizzard! Im glad I didnt buy this crap.... as I knew it would happen, as the public beta weekend was a dissaster with this 37 error crap all the way till the end!

No matter what moment on the day you tried to login. I had to retry at least a dozen times every friggin time I tried to get in. Blizzard really has become the joke of the industry along with Mythic and Bioware.

They can't even post a sticker on a CD sleeve correctly.

or maybe it is a dammned if you do dammned if you do not situation...

I am pretty sure it would have been the same b*bleep*g if they had a que system and you were greeted with a "you are number 6878 in que, estimated log in time is 4 houers" so does it really matter. Now i understand that some of you poeple are pissed having wasted sickdays/vacation/sick leave or just simple stayed home, and can't play... But then again perhaps it was atab bit optimistisc to belive that the launch of a franchice the sice of Diablo would be smooth a butter... i am pretty sure DoD don't have the power to handle that... even less so Blizzard.

Originally posted by tawess

or maybe it is a dammned if you do dammned if you do not situation...

 

 

I am pretty sure it would have been the same b*bleep*g if they had a que system and you were greeted with a "you are number 6878 in que, estimated log in time is 4 houers" so does it really matter. Now i understand that some of you poeple are pissed having wasted sickdays/vacation/sick leave or just simple stayed home, and can't play... But then again perhaps it was atab bit optimistisc to belive that the launch of a franchice the sice of Diablo would be smooth a butter... i am pretty sure DoD don't have the power to handle that... even less so Blizzard.

Blizzard has the power to do it!  As the technology is available today!

I mean for christ sake.... there are government and private company websites in (high populated) countries that have to handle a larger load than this each friggin' day lol!

Queue = More time to write hateful posts.

Spam login = No time to write hateful posts.

Well played Blizz.

In all honesty these problems lasted for 2 hours and with 3 million peeps hammering the gates I'd say the did a really good job with the launch.

Originally posted by Lagoz

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Spam login = No time to write hateful posts.

Well played Blizz.

 

In all honesty these problems lasted for 2 hours and with 3 million peeps hammering the gates I'd say the did a really good job with the launch.

That aside, but people need to drill it into their little minds that this (with the possible exception of the expansion) is the only time that so many people try to login all at once. I read some posts that argued that Blizzard "haz gotz zhe moniez" and need to spend it on better equipment. But companies don't do that for a situation that occurs just once. That would be retarded. Considering the fact that most people will forget about these problems when they played the game for a few days, it's would be doubly silly to do that.

Originally posted by MikkelB

Originally posted by Lagoz

Queue = More time to write hateful posts.

Spam login = No time to write hateful posts.

Well played Blizz.

 

In all honesty these problems lasted for 2 hours and with 3 million peeps hammering the gates I'd say the did a really good job with the launch.

That aside, but people need to drill it into their little minds that this (with the possible exception of the expansion) is the only time that so many people try to login all at once. I read some posts that argued that Blizzard "haz gotz zhe moniez" and need to spend it on better equipment. But companies don't do that for a situation that occurs just once. That would be retarded. Considering the fact that most people will forget about these problems when they played the game for a few days, it's would be doubly silly to do that.

Yeah but still some people are scarred for life and won't buy the panda expansion.

People are silly like that 8)

Everything settled down after an hour, I could log in first time this morning, Not defending blizz but maybe they did increase login server capacity.. just not enough.

Originally posted by expresso

Everything settled down after an hour, I could log in first time this morning, Not defending blizz but maybe they did increase login server capacity.. just not enough.

Usually companies say they are working on it and actually the problem solves itself once the spamming calms down :j