clearly you guys arent trying hard enough to play, if you get naked and scream at your pc while powering up over 9000 dragon ball style itll work.  or at least youll look stupid and feel better?

No one is in game, i'm not sure how the servers are set up but there are less games being played now than there was in beta.

Originally posted by Grailer

Originally posted by alkrmr

might just have to call it a night, get up early and try again

hopefully 1 million others will do the same .

 

buts its only 7:44pm here in NZ so I'll probably get to play in about 4 hours maybe lol

Yea, but when those millions wake up early, it will be the same thing all over again. Best way to handle this is to just bust out the red bull and forget sleep.

Originally posted by Rogal_Urson

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!)

 

I think that's why people are pissed

What I think is dumb is they cut off all communication via forums and now say in order to fix the errors, you have to fix you computer first. They must think were really dumb or something.

ERROR 37 WE LOVE YOU GOODNIGHT.

Originally posted by MikkelB

Originally posted by sparkhazel

What I don't understand is why Battle.net is a requirement to play this game? D2 and D1 didn't require you to log online at all.  I don't get why they didn't make an offline mode for those who just want to play the game without having to go through all of this silly garbage to play.  Oh well, Grats Bliz for blowing the launch on a game I was looking forward to playing

If this fixes the problems previous Diablo titles had with botters, hackers and dupers, then I'm more then willing to login to even play the single player portion of Diablo 3.

I can understand that portion of it from the multiplayer part of it,  They could probably fix that problem by just making single player non-online characters unable to be used for multiplayer gaming.  I dunno though, I didn't play D2 online very much, and D1 I remember the gold and item dupe thing, Guess I just wish they would have given us an offline version to play *shrug*

Here's the Issue. Blizzard has had huge launches before, and one would assume they would learn from those launches.

Also, entire thing could have been avoided with Single Player, Open Battle.net and a server side character storage Closed Battle.net, kind of like Diablo II had.. This is a complete failure on Blizzards part, it's not people being impatient, it's people expecting a product to work when sold to them and told it will work.

This would be funny as hell, if it wasn't so pathetic. Their tech staff no doubt TOLD them what they needed, yet once again, they have refused to invest in sufficient resources to handle the load.  But no doubt, "Its only launch!"... ^^

"Thank you for your continued patience and support"...

Originally posted by Thorbrand

Incorrect! Blizzard knew this would happen because they just want their money and don't care about their customers. 40mins into launch and server is still busy is unacceptable for this type of game.

Unacceptable huh?  What are you gonna do about it then?  Whine some more?  "Dammit, this is an outrage!  I won't stand for this!  50 whole minutes now and no Diablo III!!!!" 

Then a short time afterwards, Blizzard gets the servers up and running...you'll be lapping it up like the Blizzard whore you know you are.  Oh yeah...so unacceptable!

There's prob one guy online playing, thinking...."wow, this is wierd. where the hell is everybody?"

Not really suprised after how open beta went down and even patches in closed beta would bring b.net down for a while.

Got kicked out of character creation and back to the error 37. No point going to bed now since i'll wont be able shut of my mind and sleep.

HEY EVERYONE WHATS THAT OUT SIDE YOUR WINDOW, QUICK QUICK COME HAVE A LOOK IT'S AWSOME!

Quickly tries to login, fingers crossed

Well it's worth a try.

Originally posted by yutty

Not really suprised after how open beta went down and even patches in closed beta would bring b.net down for a while.

Got kicked out of character creation and back to the error 37. No point going to bed now since i'll wont be able shut of my mind and sleep.

drink 2 bottles of nyquil and try again in the morning, 3 days from now when you wake up

I'm up now.  Going to play EQ2.  I'm pissed, but will make the best out of it......

Originally posted by Seanalex

Here's the Issue. Blizzard has had huge launches before, and one would assume they would learn from those launches.

 

Also, entire thing could have been avoided with Single Player, Open Battle.net and a server side character storage Closed Battle.net, kind of like Diablo II had.. This is a complete failure on Blizzards part, it's not people being impatient, it's people expecting a product to work when sold to them and told it will work.

Said product's servers got blown up man. It was working, for about 2 mins :)

Then read the EULA and notice there is no guarantee for uptime, average that out over a months play average to acheive something reasonable like 99.9% uptime...Ok, they just cant mess up any more this week and we're good...

I am in, just created a character and banner, got an error with the banner but now it's working. Just have to sit here and wait for my coop friends to get in.

They said on twitter they've added servers....what does that accomplish if no one can play on said servers.

This thread actually makes me happy in a sick and twisted sort of way, and I'm not saying that to bash the game...

But as often as I visited MMORPG.com, I rarely saw more than a handful of people say something positive about the game, and most just trashed it and said they were going to play Torchlight II or Path of Exile instead.

Now I pop in here and a shitload of people are mad because they can't log in...

It sucks that you can't log in right now, but I'm ecstatic that the servers are so busy that you're all having trouble getting in!

I'm glad so many folks wanted to play Diablo III after all!  WOOT!

Originally posted by spikers14

Originally posted by Seanalex

Here's the Issue. Blizzard has had huge launches before, and one would assume they would learn from those launches.

 

Also, entire thing could have been avoided with Single Player, Open Battle.net and a server side character storage Closed Battle.net, kind of like Diablo II had.. This is a complete failure on Blizzards part, it's not people being impatient, it's people expecting a product to work when sold to them and told it will work.

Said product's servers got blown up man. It was working, for about 2 mins :)

Then read the EULA and notice there is no guarantee for uptime, average that out over a months play average to acheive something reasonable like 99.9% uptime...Ok, they just cant mess up any more this week and we're good...

doesnt help that theyve snowballed everything into battle.net.  wow has millions playing globally 24 7 logging through battlenet.  the nation of korea is on battle net on starcraft and sc2.  and now all the people not playing those games that played d2 are on battle net.  battlenet is fucked.  shoulda made character creation and single player offline.  and had people log on to battlenet after the fact for co op.