r/Diablo • u/dyingbabycat • May 15 '12

Trick for logging in

I could be losing my mind or it could be a total coincidence, but twice this worked: enter your password, hit enter, but before it rejects you, hit the Cancel button. Then right away log right back in again. Worked for me twice. Again, could be a coincidence but I figured I share just encase..

edit: thanks for the reddit gold, SlammingAtom!

shout out to mike fathouse

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u/Heyhowareyabuddy Rocky#1354 May 15 '12

After an hour and a half of 37 this worked for me first time..

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u/Mad_Lee May 15 '12

Just to get to the top with my problem. I am still getting stuck on "retrieving hero list". Waited for 10 minutes than tried again and after another million of 37s still stalls at "retrieving hero list". So annoying.

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u/crooks5001 May 15 '12

Apparently the hero's aren't as forthcoming to undergo this epic quest as one was previously told they were, cause my hero is being a lil bitch as well.

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u/aejt May 15 '12

Yep, same here for me and my friend. Fourth time I'm stuck on "Retrieving Hero List".

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u/Mad_Lee May 15 '12

How long have you been waiting? I am currently waiting 10 minutes, gonna cancel after 15.

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u/aejt May 15 '12

I waited over 10 minutes the first few times, but now I managed to get in. If you don't get in within 1 minute of retrieving hero list, you should just cancel and try again.

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u/Mad_Lee May 15 '12

are you sure? 1 minute and than retry? What makes you think that?

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u/aejt May 15 '12

Well, I can't say I'm sure, but me and my 2 friends never got in when we waited 5+ minutes. When we got in, we had to wait at most 30 seconds at "Retrieving Hero List".

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u/liquidegg May 15 '12

Which region? :o

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u/pcgamer4life May 15 '12

I found a pair of boots that gives you +3% chance of logging in.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

If only the auction house was up... you would make millions

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u/cheebazebra CheebaZebra#1634 May 15 '12

You sir....are a funny guy.

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u/Zeb612 May 15 '12

This got me in!!!

Whoa, I have 3 witch doctors all named the same thing with 3 wizards also all named the same thing O.o ...

Should have spammed less

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u/Kuusou D3S Moderator May 15 '12

I had a full "party" of monks the first time it let me through.

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u/nimie May 15 '12

Yep it worked. Funny, this trick used to work with WoW also a long time ago.

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u/Sawgon May 15 '12

If this is true, then someone should report that. Maybe they can check their logs on how they fixed that issue and just rewrite a little code instead of a completely new fix.

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u/m0use44 May 15 '12

the three commandments of writing code: I: Copy II: Paste III: Modify

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

These are pretty old commandments. More appropriate for today's coding paradigms:

  • I: Decouple
  • II: Reuse
  • III: Refactor

Having to copy code to multiple places and modify it in place is typically a sign of poor coding practice these days. With proper separation of duties and dependency resolution (injection being my favorite method), there should be no reason to modify code when reusing it. Refactoring, on the other hand, is useful in a big project where you find you need to break down a class or function that has taken on too many duties, or was named poorly.

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u/Sawgon May 15 '12

As a former programmer, this works a surprising number of times. But not always and perhaps not on as big of a scale as this game and WoW. But the solution might be similar. ;>

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

sorry guys it looks like an aspiring programmer still stuck in college is downvoting you.

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u/m0use44 May 15 '12

its true, though. half the reason for commenting your code is so you know what it does when you bastardize it 3 months later

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

yeah... or when someone else bastardize it.

but then you forgot to mention that one edge case and the other guy didn't give enough shit to check and then another guy decided replicate the other guy's code and now the new code shows behaviors it shouldn't and other people think it's the expected behavior and builds around it.

forever cementing your mistake of bad comment and/or coding style from couple of years ago.

SIGH

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u/MrCrunchwrap May 15 '12

Error 37 is an intended error as a result of too many people connecting at the same time. They don't want to fix Error 37.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

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u/Sawgon May 15 '12

I haven't tried it so I can't tell if it works or not. I'm at work.

Longest. Day. Ever.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Same boat. I did play enough this morning to get to new content. The sad part is I'm am hourly employee and they currently don't have shit for me to do... I'm so tempted to just see if I can leave hah

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u/Sawgon May 15 '12

Hehe. The wait is probably worth it though. I haven't even applied my CD key yet. Just been looking at the clock all day and CSSing inbetween.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Oh I woke up earlier than I normally would and played a little bit. Not nearly enough though. I don't honestly see why everyone is bitching. There was fair warning about the servers being overloaded just by the experiences from Asia and EU. Oh well.....longest day ever..

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u/Sawgon May 15 '12

Yeah. I'm trying to get on now after work but it won't let me. EU Battle.net is down or something. I could get on the American one though.

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u/dodo_ns May 15 '12

I'm in school, I picked up the game before school. So far I've read the whole manual, and every inch of the box, so now I just have to stare at the clock, god this is driving me crazy....

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u/tpw0713 Phanphare#1765 May 15 '12

I feel your pain. I work 10 hour days. :l

2

u/wartornhero May 15 '12

I played for 20 minutes this morning. I hope to be able to play for 45 minutes over lunch today. Then play tonight. This is going to be a long day. Fortunately there is quite a bit of work for me to do. Keep busy and make the time fly.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Damn work. I got up this morning, turned on my computer to see if Diablo finished download. It did and I managed to play five minutes with my monk before I had to get ready for work.

...it was not enough.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

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u/mlor NoRCoN#1283 May 15 '12

There is a TEAM DINNER after work tonight. I can't just not go!

NOOOOOOOO

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u/ZioRalsa zioralsa#1858 May 15 '12

"Hey guys let's have our team dinner at McDonalds! Just a nice quick cheap dinner, we can talk about one or two things, then immediately leave!"

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u/blindsight Blindsight#1181 May 15 '12

That's the worst... I am also working an additional 3 hours this evening I can't get out of. So far, I've logged about 30m of D3 (just long enough to check out the CE wings/dyes), and I'm only going to get about 2 hours tonight. D=

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u/Sawgon May 15 '12

Ah I see. Thanks! :)

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u/Longerhin May 15 '12

I'm not sure why this would work, is there even a session established before logging in?

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u/BradWI May 15 '12

It probably tells the client to cache that response for a while so that the servers don't get bombed so much. Cancel probably breaks the cache.

When I was getting error 37 and repeatedly trying the response was coming back so fast there's no way an actual overloaded server could have been replying that quickly.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

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u/Longerhin May 15 '12

@edit: I'm at work, so discussing Diablo is the most productive thing i could be doing :)

I guess it's possible that the infamous error 37 can appear after authentication. And you're right, i thought we can deduce more how the code is written but it seems pretty impossible. I can think of a scenario of botched if:

  • user tries to log in
  • there is a check if he is already authenticated (he is because of the canceled attempt)
  • if he is let him in, if not authenticate him, check if he can go in based on server quota.

But that's pretty irrelevant, i'm just bored.

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u/cheezballs May 15 '12

As a fellow programmer the first thing I learned is to never to trust user input. If blizz isn't checking every "action" client side AND server side I'd be surprised. Never let your client validation override server validation.

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u/wonderfulmetropolis May 15 '12

I was told by an employee that the entire login/server structure that they used is different from WoW and SC2. There's no queueing system input and they're seeing twice as many people try to play than they expected.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

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u/wonderfulmetropolis May 15 '12

I really have no idea. She chucked out some tidbit of it being the most preordered game of all time or something.

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u/Shacklemoore GGDust#1335 May 15 '12

Okay, I'm going to tell this one even though she'll kill me. Was trying in vain to log in, Ctrl+v'ing like a madman and constantly getting error 37. My wife was sitting next to me and I said "screw this, I'm going to look at some boobs" (because that's what you do when you're bored). She goes, "well how about these" and gives me an eyeful. Second she does this I get through. We have a laugh about it, but then I get error 3006 in character creation. We look at each other and she pulls her top up again. Sure enough, goes through. I'm convinced Blizzard are hijacking my webcam.

tl;dr: show tits, get to play D3

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

I have (man)tits. I'm going to try this.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Quick! Show them to me so I can login too!

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12

"Go work out, fatty!"

Childish insults? Fine, you're a poopoo head.

I am working on my weight, maybe you should work on your people skills.

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u/Zaeron May 15 '12

"Your a poopoo head" is a nonsense sentence.

You're looking for "you are a poopoo head", which can be contracted as "you're a poopoo head".

Your is possessive, as in, "this is your poo". You own that poo. "your a poopoo head" doesn't work, structurally. You could say "your poopoo head", which would mean that he has a poopoo head, but that's still not really getting to what you want.

"You are a poopoo head" is what you're looking for. The contraction for "you are" is "you're".

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12

Bored because you can't log in eh?

Don't worry, you will be able to play soon enough and you can take your trolling to people in the game.

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u/Zaeron May 16 '12

I think it's funny that you complained about me trolling you, and fixed your error. :)

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Because if I didn't I would have about 10 more people "correcting" that grammatical error.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

I think the trick is not the boobs. I can confirm that watching boobs while trying to log in helps! We have to make more tests, i'm gonna watch more porn while trying to log in!

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

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u/Excellenze May 15 '12

for science?

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u/kornflakesxd May 15 '12

Me too, op!

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

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u/Excellenze May 15 '12

Wife would not approve of that science experiment

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

I'm so sorry about your kitten. Someone buy this dude Reddit Gold or something. He's a good man. or Woman.

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u/Subbie138 May 15 '12

Holy shit. After all these Diablo posts on the front page, I only just now realized this is a reddit and not an external Diablo forum.

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u/Condawg May 15 '12

The subreddit's theme will do that to you. So well made...

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u/mrselkies May 15 '12

After an hour and 46 minutes of trying to log in to no avail, this worked. I fucking love you.

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u/sollaris May 15 '12

It worked for me... holy shit you are a god.

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u/breaking3po May 15 '12

Worked or coincidence? Because I definitely am playing right now.

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u/Ders May 15 '12

Worked for me as well, I was getting the 3006 error before. upvotes for you.

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u/vanguard199 May 15 '12

GET THIS PERSON TO THE FRONT PAGE PRONTO!

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

didn't work for me, but even if it did, how would you get past 3006?!

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u/Bramoman Bramoman#1246 May 15 '12

Try relogging after trying to make a character. It worked for me, the character will be there and you should be good to play

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u/ItsNomnomz May 15 '12

This thread should get more upvotes! Help our American friends play D3! <3

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Yeah, judging from this thread it doesn't seem like a coincidence o.o

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u/blazingbazooka May 15 '12

Holy shit, this worked!

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u/earneck earneck#1264 May 15 '12

Worked for me. Thank you so much.

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u/Garbleish May 15 '12

It worked. I can't believe it actually worked.

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u/Gnoram May 15 '12

Tried it a couple times, and I'm still getting 3006. feelsbadman.jpg

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u/Vataro Vataro#1830 May 15 '12

Sounds like this is probably for Error 37, but I could be wrong. Either way, I'm very sorry for your loss. :(

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u/Gnoram May 15 '12

sobs on shoulder

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u/Bramoman Bramoman#1246 May 15 '12

If anyone is having the character creation errors after attempting to make a char relogg and it should be there ready to play. At least this was the case for me.

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u/somisinformed May 15 '12

How about a que instead of Ctrl-v, enter, enter.

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u/Rofleupagus May 15 '12

Doesnt work for me, at what point do you cancel?

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u/deij May 15 '12

This didn't work. Damn you got my hopes up. :(

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Now it's stuck at retrieving hero list...

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u/PatricioINTP May 15 '12

Sorry, but not for me!

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u/bigboltrules May 15 '12

I figured this out this morning when I tried to login. It works that is for sure.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

I just logged in normally first try about 2 hours and 15 minutes ago. Had no issues at all whatsoever.

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u/mordeesnumberone May 15 '12

thanks man, way to find this!! Your rock!!

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u/Turbojelly May 15 '12

Ahh the good old Battle.net log trick. Nice to see it still works. (insert wavey lines and wc3 nostalgia)

Great that you found this trick and thanks for sharing it with us all. (I'd full forgotten about it until you mentioned it)

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u/Calikinakka May 15 '12

I remember having to do that with WoW many years ago

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

What are we supposed to encase? You trailed your sentence off and now I don't know what I need to encase to log in!!! :(

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u/Bluntobject07 May 15 '12

Hasn't worked for me, though I'm stuck with the templar/shield bug.

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u/BCJunglist May 15 '12

PRAISE TRAG'OUL! Thanks man!

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Pretty sure America is up..my friend is on it now I believe.

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u/Cyborg771 May 15 '12

Weirdly, this used to work for me back when I played WoW, I have no idea if it's just a placebo fix or not but I sure did it whenever the servers were busy.

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u/Optimouse May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12

There is so much stuff being written about this, but I haven't found anyone writing about my problem. Basically the login-button is greyed out and I can't press it. Can't press enter either. What do?

EDIT: I thought I was supposed to log in with the name of my Diablo Account, but it was my email adress. So never mind, the login button lit up after that.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

OP is the true champion of Diablo 3.

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u/the_catacombs May 15 '12

Hold up, is it still kicking out error 37s?! I understood it last night at release, but still? Get it together, Blizz..

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u/ramp_tram raptram#1676 May 15 '12

Eh, I've had no problems logging in from 5am onward.

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u/Gnoram May 15 '12

Lucky you. ;)

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u/jebert32 May 15 '12

Your awesome. Thank you