All good demons go to... um... sequel? - Diablo 3 Announced

aeneas · 2012-05-15T00:24:59.000Z

and now their website is overloaded. LOL

mtkafka · 2012-05-15T00:25:25.000Z

Gah i crashed so im writingthisfrom mydroid. Amicool?

charmtrap · 2012-05-15T00:25:29.000Z

mtkafka · 2012-05-15T00:27:35.000Z

charmtrap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KqRPOEa3P44

WHY BLIZZARD WHY INDEED!

pyrhic · 2012-05-15T00:29:30.000Z

Badesumofu:

I managed to get to character creation, but it just keeps timing out. I actually thought that Blizzard would manage to get this working from the beginning, a little dissapointed.

Ya, i’m kinda this way too.

They have all the wow experience, they have the presale numbers, and they know the hype. I don’t think there’s much excuse for this because there’s any number of alternative decisions they could have made to prevent this kind of thing from happening…

charmtrap · 2012-05-15T00:32:39.000Z

pyrhic:

Ya, i’m kinda this way too.

They have all the wow experience, they have the presale numbers, and they know the hype. I don’t think there’s much excuse for this because there’s any number of alternative decisions they could have made to prevent this kind of thing from happening…

Well, I’ve never been in charge of launching a million-selling game…my guess is because it doesn’t make a lot of sense to put tons of money into extra infrastructure for the one hour that is most likely the peak concurrent traffic that the game will ever see in it’s lifetime. Just my guess.

Derbain · 2012-05-15T00:33:25.000Z

I was actually in game, but was having some trouble getting vent to work, so I logged out of D3. Big mistake. Hahah.

MrPerson · 2012-05-15T00:36:28.000Z

charmtrap:

Well, I’ve never been in charge of launching a million-selling game…my guess is because it doesn’t make a lot of sense to put tons of money into extra infrastructure for the one hour that is most likely the peak concurrent traffic that the game will ever see in it’s lifetime. Just my guess.

Yup. While I think there’s low hanging fruit to make the experience less shitty (don’t make me manually resubmit my character creation request), the people who are invested enough to be dicking around with trying to get in at midnight aren’t going to stop playing your games because they couldn’t, and the problem basically sorts itself out to a more reasonable state after a few hours.

pyrhic · 2012-05-15T00:36:30.000Z

charmtrap:

Well, I’ve never been in charge of launching a million-selling game…my guess is because it doesn’t make a lot of sense to put tons of money into extra infrastructure for the one hour that is most likely the peak concurrent traffic that the game will ever see in it’s lifetime. Just my guess.

Then plan your launch in such a way that you dont have 5 million people hitting it at once. Or rent/retask hardware. or…

It’s not like they have a game with 11M or so people on it, with regular new content, that they can use as some sort of test case…

charmtrap · 2012-05-15T00:37:19.000Z

Well, battle.net and forums are offline, so probably they went to the back to get some extra squirrels.

pyrhic · 2012-05-15T00:38:00.000Z

MrPerson:

Yup. While I think there’s low hanging fruit to make the experience less shitty (don’t make me manually resubmit my character creation request), the people who are invested enough to be dicking around with trying to get in at midnight aren’t going to stop playing your games because they couldn’t, and the problem basically sorts itself out to a more reasonable state after a few hours.

Then don’t tell your customer it’s going to be available at 12:01…

And now your website has gone down…

Vesper · 2012-05-15T00:38:03.000Z

According to @BlizzardCS, all battle.net servers are in ‘maintenance.’ That might explain why suddenly I’m getting a 37 every single time, instead of sometimes getting Authentication and then stuck on Retrieving Hero List.

mtkafka · 2012-05-15T00:38:34.000Z

seriously… uhm… i thnk D3 might have crashed my PC! or at least my PC was due to crash but D3 was the catalyst? wow this sux. getting errors on w7 reboot. never had that before… :-(

Ginger_Yellow · 2012-05-15T00:39:31.000Z

Played about an hour this morning without any problems. Very similar to my time in the beta so far, except firebats unlock at level 5 now. Can’t wait to get to the fresh content, but it’s going to have to wait until after work alas.

MrPerson · 2012-05-15T00:40:34.000Z

pyrhic:

Then don’t tell your customer it’s going to be available at 12:01…

And now your website has gone down…

Did you genuinely believe you weren’t going to see issues like this in the first hour? If so, I don’t even know what to say to you. Oh wow, shit’s busy on opening night, what a god damned fucking revelation. Yeah, it sucks. I want to be playing too. But it’s also entirely expected if you have the slightest grasp of reality.

aeneas · 2012-05-15T00:41:16.000Z

Unable To Create A New Hero Due To Party State

triggercut · 2012-05-15T00:41:53.000Z

Yep, they’ve taken all the servers down for a fiddle about.

Amazing how a game launch like this regresses us all to being a bunch of yapping 8 year olds.

charmtrap · 2012-05-15T00:43:01.000Z

I’m just watching old X-Files and trying every 2 or 3 minutes. I’m probably only gonna make it another hour anyway…i got the yawns.

RepoMan · 2012-05-15T00:43:49.000Z

Just woke up briefly to pee, and got curious what’s up in Tristram. Thank you Qt3 for allowing me to find out second-hand rather than personally! Going back to sleep now :-)

triggercut · 2012-05-15T00:44:42.000Z

Yeah, starting to think a nice nap and then try to get in again in a few hours is the way to play it.