The Diablo3 Thread of Heavens and Trembling

[Arrancar4]

Damn had a few beers with the my intern boss down stairs at the bar. After working the whole day in 36deg the whole day my head feels a bit light.

Back on the topic. Those with Diablo problems go to sleep and try tomorrow. Installer issues surf the net for some answers; login issues try later obviously to many people on the survers and any other google is your friend.

If any body has a 4meg mweb uncap line please give me your average ping, cuz thats what i have.

Damn those beers are gonna make me sleep early tonight and I still wanted to watch some anime. Damn you boss wanting to spend some bro time!!!!

[KimmyKae]

What?

[Cleric]

@Gammray: I had the same problem, possibly related to the failed pre-load, so I deleted all traces of D3 from my machine, restarted and then it worked.

EDIT: Well seems that I can't log in now either for a quick run. Error 73 and error 75 again and again. Oh well, back to the studies I suppose. Now I see the upside of only really being able to dig in from June.

EDIT2: Ok, 2 or 3 more attempts and I got in and saw my old SC2 friendlist alight with people playing with open slots. But for some reason I reckon my first playthrough will be solo. Anyway, I'm off.

[Gammaray]

Update ...
Seems like Telkom is the culprit, somehow. I'm tethering via Vodacom and the installation is at 12% at the time of posting.
A couple of others also confirmed this on the Diablo support forum.
I guess I have no more reason not to go to Afrihost.

[Zoop]

Got in, played a bit, loved it. By the end of the week, it'll be sorted out. So just chill.

But what do you guys think? Did they just underestimate the numbers? Or is this something technical that went wrong? And how fast can they fix it? Because I can't see them doing this. They are suppose to be the smart ones.

It's just pretty funny. The world's largest MMO giant releases one of the most highly anticipated games of the last decade, and they have server congestion issues. XD

But I dunno, sounds like it might be technical issues as opposed to simple congestion.

For those who really, really can't wait, there's always the Asian servers. Apparently people are getting into those. You just can't carry your characters over to them.

Also, how big is the download that is done during install?

[Gammaray]

So far my tehtering connection is reading 78Mb, installation at 14%.

[KimmyKae]

Battlenet is now totally down. It's also affecting Starcraft II.

Oh Blizzard!

[GeometriX]

The funny thing about that is it reminded me that this neat little option is still within Blizzard's capacity:



:sigh:

[The_Furry_Cat]

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/diablo-iii

Lol! These people! :'D

Metacritic is useless, seriously.

[-Bouncer-]

I just wish that Diablo had an offline option.

Heres a free tip Blizzard: Don't make a single player game, online only.....

[Zoop]

Wow, I really hope these issues are sorted by the time I get to play tomorrow.

It's also entirely possible the the moronic PC whiners are DDoS'ing them again. They're already bombing the game on Metacritic, so I wouldn't be surprised.

[Blue-IcE]

Yep cant even get onto Starcraft 2, don't even think this happened with the release of SC2, i remember it being loaded but nothing like this.

[-Bouncer-]

I'm usually patient with these sort of things and I expected something to happen to the servers but as mentioned before, not from Blizzard. It's stupid that people bomb the game on Metacritics.

I'll try for another 20 minutes but then I'm off to bed. Early day tomorrow and lots of work to do....

I managed to get onto the Starcraft 2 servers though.

[The_Furry_Cat]

I give up trying to log in :( I really didn't expect this from Blizzard. I hope all the known issues will be sorted out by tomorrow morning.

[Gammaray]

Setup completed sucessfully at long last. Total download was just under 200Mb.

I disconnected my phone and connected with my ADSL. Run game ... no such luck. I get a streaming error. Diablo needs a constant connection stream yadda yadda yadda.

I disconnect my ADSL and connect with my phone again. Run game ... in like flynn.
Except I get the same "servers are busy Error 37" message.

WFT Telkom? Seriously.

[Sir-Ominous]

This is the only thing that scares me from buying games like this. You need to go through so muck **** just to play the freaken thing.

[GeometriX]

I'm surprised that anyone is surprised that there are teething issues. So what, it's Blizzard? Everyone has issues with gigantic game releases or new systems. I remember having the same kind of problems with SC2, with COD MW2, with BF3 (still having those). Heck, remember how bloody awful Steam was when it first launched? Any hugely anticipated game with a heavy online component is bound to struggle during the first few days.

[KimmyKae]

Anyone getting this one?

"This account does not have a Diablo 3 license attached to it. (Error 12)"

If I have to go through what I did for Bulletstorm again, I'm going to murder someone.

[Cleric]

Well I just finished another 30 minute stint. Got logged in first time without issue. Post-Leoric, I think I went the wrong way, as suddenly I was getting much stronger drops and enemies

[Negasta]

I rolled a Demon Hunter. I hope it gets a bit tougher later on, because I'm just strolling through the mobs. If a Monk is so much more powerful, then it must actually be comical.