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

FieryBalrog · 2012-05-30T08:30:22.000Z

TheWombat:

Now here’s a weird one for you… After the patch the other day, I logged in and found a dead Hardcore level 30-something DH on my roster, with the name of my actual Hardcore DH (who is lower level). It was…odd…but I figured it was just a weirdness. So I deleted the dead not-me. Unfortunately, as I logged in today, what I can’t find is my 30-ish softcore mode Monk, who was in Nightmare Act I. Apparently…it was her that I deleted, even though what was being displayed was this phantom hardcore character. Oy vey. It’s not that bad–hell, normal softcore isn’t hard to beat, and really I had little investment in that character–but still, argh.

That’s really… philosophical. And sucky.

Jajusha · 2012-05-30T08:39:19.000Z

Day off work: Error 37. Screw this game.

AaronSofaer · 2012-05-30T08:45:55.000Z

If you spam connect, you can defeat the Error 37 boss.

Jajusha · 2012-05-30T08:50:34.000Z

AaronSofaer:

If you spam connect, you can defeat the Error 37 boss.

Great design. Does he drop loot?

TheWombat · 2012-05-30T08:58:00.000Z

FieryBalrog:

That’s really… philosophical. And sucky.

I suspect the constant twiddling with stuff on their end, and perhaps consequent data base oddities, are to to blame. But who knows? All part of the wonderful world of server-side online gaming I guess.

Teiman · 2012-05-30T10:34:23.000Z

TheWombat:

I suspect the constant twiddling with stuff on their end, and perhaps consequent data base oddities, are to to blame. But who knows? All part of the wonderful world of server-side online gaming I guess.

It sounds like something has ben implemented in a very hacky way, half-assed, and that a error perhaps just a timming problem, a exposed that to you.

This also means that D3 now have “Ghost” characters. Is possesed!.

The first expansion pack perhaps will be about rescueing the spirit of leah from hell, or sub-hell, whanever where the dark crystal falls. Or maybe we enter the crystal or somethERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.ERROR 37!.

instant0 · 2012-05-30T11:09:42.000Z

Another night… another error 37. this is great.
Time to fire up Gothic 3.

Good thing the Single and Multiplayer part of the game is tied to their shoddy online service… or I’d been able to play it.
Torchlight 2 is looking better and better.
One can only hope Activi$ion are still having issues with B.net when TL2 is released.

Nephrinn · 2012-05-30T11:26:49.000Z

Obligatory.

JetLagger · 2012-05-30T12:11:08.000Z

Well the Bliz forums are continuing to implode. What is odd is that there have been no Blue posts concerning the mess that has continued into today. Not even a “We are looking into the situation message”.

Joe_O_Malley · 2012-05-30T13:08:01.000Z

I wasn’t able to get on all last night. Kept getting the “Server busy” notice.

mjgreeny75 · 2012-05-30T13:53:55.000Z

I was able to log on the American servers only. But with all my characters on European servers atm, that’s not much use: I really don’t feel like starting a new one. And I must admit, that’s pretty annoying. I still don’t mind the ‘always online’ part, I stated in several other posts that I understand that bit and that hasn’t changed. But I do feel that Blizzard should have gotten this working by now, and I hope they get their act together real soon. If not, I guess I’ll just have to play all characters on both European and USA servers, to ensure I at least get some usefull playing in every now and then…

charmtrap · 2012-05-30T14:00:18.000Z

Whatever they did yesterday is working. My latency has been solid sub-40ms since last night.

Ginger_Yellow · 2012-05-30T14:09:48.000Z

Having been locked out of Diablo for two of the three free time periods in the last week that I’ve had to play it, I’m thinking I should buy two copies of Torchlight 2 just to reward Runic for not doing this online only bullshit.

Charlatan · 2012-05-30T14:16:12.000Z

charmtrap:

Whatever they did yesterday is working. My latency has been solid sub-40ms since last night.

People say it’s from joining the General chat channel. I don’t know why that would do it, but if that is indeed the case, it just goes to show you there’s no such thing as a free lunch!

aeneas · 2012-05-30T15:26:04.000Z

Charlatan:

People say it’s from joining the General chat channel. I don’t know why that would do it, but if that is indeed the case, it just goes to show you there’s no such thing as a free lunch!

Thats interesting. I seem to get auto joined to the channel. Which I immediately disconnected from as it was full of farmers.

Equisilus · 2012-05-30T15:55:04.000Z

aeneas:

Thats interesting. I seem to get auto joined to the channel. Which I immediately disconnected from as it was full of farmers.

Certainly the most idiotic move they made in the recent patch. I have to turn it off every time I log in. How fun for me.

[Edit] Just found this:

Our current plan is to apply a change to this in an upcoming patch so that your chat preferences are saved when you leave a game. This means you wouldn’t be connected to General chat when you join a game if you had left the channel in your last game. We’ll let you know when we have more details available about this potential change.

Ranulf · 2012-05-30T16:11:26.000Z

I’m apparently a lucky bastard as I’ve had two legendaries drop in one game. On my level 14-15 wizard IIRC while playing with 2 friends. The wiz offhand that dropped lasted me until 20 or so (could’ve replaced it earlier if I’d bothered) and some witch doctor dagger that was a level 15 item with ok stats but nothing that most rares wouldn’t beat. I sold it for less than I should have but someone actually paid 15k gold for it.

instant0 · 2012-05-30T16:35:29.000Z

So they put auto join on the channel, but still leave you with a 120x80 resolution chat interface designed by … well, I doubt that was designed at all.

solomani · 2012-05-31T03:09:21.000Z

Blizzard raided: http://i.massively.joystiq.com/2012/05/30/korean-government-raids-blizzard-over-alleged-diablo-iii-wrongdo/

peterb · 2012-05-31T04:55:16.000Z

instant0:

So they put auto join on the channel, but still leave you with a 120x80 resolution chat interface designed by … well, I doubt that was designed at all.

Uh oh, now you’ve done it - prepare yourself to be yelled at by people who believe strongly that the interface for a 1988-era vt100-based IRC client is the platonically perfect chat solution for a modern game.