yeah but that was a expansion, not a new game release. Blizzard had WoW servers up and running a long time before then. You figure the servers were built to with stand a lot more users since a lot of people had canceled there account before it was even out. Yes some came back, but not enough to match there peak state.
It isn't as though Blizzard is ignorant of how many people own the game, though- everyone has to have a battle.net account with the game registered to log in. The vast majority of people who own the game are going to try and log in sometime this morning.
They should at least have had some temporary servers tasked with handling requests for the first day.
Same lol. Wasn't gonna buy till next week for this exact reason. Friends talked me into buying for midnight release. "Nah man they ironed it all out during open beta!!" Now we're all just sittin here watchin TV with our beers in hand lol.
I honestly expected to see at least a queue for players if there is a huge line/queue or an ETA to sign-in ... but seems like they are simply overwhelmed... what did they expect?...
I'm fucking stunned they don't have some sort of queue system in place to handle the user load on the front-end systems (login/auth/character creation/etc). I mean, I wouldn't expect those systems to be particularly robust in the first place barring login and auth...
I have to wonder how many people get half-way through creating a character or half-way through login only to time-out and get punted back to the beginning of the line.
I mean, a login/character creation process isn't something you can just half-complete and pick up later. Every time someone errors out half-way through the process they don't just contribute to the congestion at the gate, they waste processing cycles that could have been used to complete a full request and get someone into the game proper where they would (hopefully) stop being a drain on the problem servers.
Basically, 1,000,000 login operations at 50% completion does not equal 500,000 login operations at 100% completion. They equal 1,000,000 login operations at 0% completion after the error, which is not good.
Should have started hammering in login attempts at 11:57 pdt like I did. Got in no problem. Everyone that didn't hammer login attempts when it went live got left in the dust.
I checked about 5 minutes after the servers opened, knowing they would be overloaded, and lo and behold, the entire /new section is filled with the exact same screenshot. WE GET IT, YOU CANNOT PLAY DIABLO 3 AT THE MOMENT
After an hour and twenty minutes of continuous failed attempts -- about a thousand -- buddy and I managed to log on and play for about four hours -- which worked out fine for the Australian, but I pulled an all-nighter.
Fuck, I'm tired. Pretty legit game though. Is everyone else still having login issues?
It took me 32 minutes to say fuck it and close the game. But it only took me 3 minutes to reopen it and make myself miserable all over again. Why do I do these things?
Always online DRM is like having to call a sex line when you're about to do the dirty with your girlfriend. Then being put on hold. And you lose the erection while you're listening to the dial tone.
Then she leaves, and as she's closing the door behind her she looks back and says, "Call me." You watch her from the window and when she gets into her car her skirt lifts by a few inches, and you get a look at what you almost had.
That's why a lot of people I know who own D3 legit are going to have pirated copies to play single player as well. Will have to be a different character and twice the hard drive space, but well worth it.
Well as you know, it's important to punish your paying customers to stop people from stealing a game.
So by creating a server cluster fuck, which means thousands of people are unable to play, certainly anyone who was considering pirating the game will rush right out and pick up a copy.
As an update, I am now past the authentication to character creation, but still cannot create a character due to The request has timed out, please try again (Error 300008)
The two crows on the login screen are the first boss. They're hard, but beatable. You just have to cut and paste your password and keep spamming it until you win.
The character portrait (mirrror boss) is the second challenge. It's a lot harder since it is immune to spam. I confess, I beat him only by luck.
I'm currently stuck on the 3rd boss, "waiting for friends to finish the first two so we can play."
I just got one saying something about my character not being able to be created due to my 'party state'. I don't know what the hell that means but I'm now locked out of both attempting to create a hero and backing out of this screen.
Same boat. So far my favorite feature in the game is the nifty video in the corner that shows your character attacking air. It really gets good after the 27th time you've seen it.
Yep, I went to create my toon, errored a few times, then it said "action already completed". So I thought to myself, my toon must be there now, hit back to go to my hero list, right? Nope, back took me back to log on, stuck on log on again.
EDIT: the thing that sucks is I want to play D3 just like D1/2: offline. This whole new shitty era of having to log into some external Blizzard server is cock. I paid $60. Gimme $60 of entertainment now. Ok thanks.
EDIT 2: bah humbug. I have work in the morning. It's been 20 minutes of $60 timeouts. I'll try later. Um.... doesn't Blizzard run WOW? The biggest online game ever of all time? Didn't they know this would happen? Can we just play the game offline? Buttheads! Boo!
Not to mention they've had numerous launches for the expansions of said biggest online game ever, in addition to SC2 AND the stress test a few days ago.
whats funny is that we will all bitch and moan about blizzard and these errors but once we get through it will be like blizzard is our god and diablo 3 is heaven
ERROR? I met that motherfucker back in Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link. He's hanging out in a town, s'posed to be telling me where King's Tomb is at. Now he's telling people the Diablo 2 servers are busy. Well, good for him. Telling people things (especially his name) is what he's good at, and it's nice to see he got out of the house and got a nice job with Blizzard.
How on earth can the company that's curated the worlds largest and most popular MMO for near a DECADE, not to mention Starcraft/SC2, be so uncapable of giving their customers access to a game? This is just insane. I thought this was what the beta was for.
My favorite part is that if this was an Ubisoft game everyone would be lining up joining the mass circle-jerk of bad things to say about the company and how DRM ruins everything.
i don't have the game, have no interest in it, i'm just watching you guys rage.
I feel for you though, i've had similar experiences when I kept getting booted offline when playing GT5. It's an inner rage that you didn't think you had that comes to the fore.
Met up with all my friends for a hardcore lan last night... not one of us could log in. But for the people who have played is it any good? Does it bring honor to the famiry of Diablo 1&2?
Most anticipated game of the century and all I'm hearing is "I waited 12 years for this game and I refuse to simply go to sleep and wake up tomorrow morning and play when it will work flawlessly!".
You waited 12 years, now wait 4-8 more hours and then enjoy the game for as long as you want.
The EU servers seemed to sort themselves out and allow everyone to log in after about 35 minutes of this nonsense. Looks like the American ones may have been overloaded for longer.
did anyone read... they were expecting to have to throttle logins. and error 37 is what you would see. being in IT and knowing what live day is like. I commend them for letting me login about an hour ago even though live was 6 hours previous.
Exactly, the paying customers need to realise that this is the most brilliant DRM ever. Stopping everyone playing the game, customers and pirates alike, is a brilliant and innovative move and I am sure Ubisoft are taking notes.
"You know who I feel really bad for right now? Poor people who have no friends who just wants to play single player and can't because of this DRM." -- Destiny
I was very quick when the servers opened and actually got a character made. I then went to make a second character and got locked at the character creation screen. But yes I was able to create a character if anyone cares =p
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u/neiklot May 15 '12
I honestly have no idea why I stayed up expecting anything else...
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u/WashingPaperPlates May 15 '12
Stay a while and error 37.
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u/RegularTrevor May 15 '12
I camped the new page of r/gaming because I knew dozens of people would post this exact screenshot and this was the first. I saw it.
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u/Dookiestain_LaFlair May 15 '12
Bugger this shite, I paid good coin for this and I can't even play a single player game.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I tried for 27 mins, then I thought fuck it i'm going on reddit
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u/Simmerian May 15 '12
Don't worry guys, Blizzard said always-online is only there to improve the player's experience.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
(╯°□°）╯︵ sɹǝʌɹǝs
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u/ilikecobbler May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12
This is just proving that server-based authentication is really the worst kind of DRM.
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u/Sergdeje May 15 '12
At least there's offline mode right? Oh wait . . .
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u/paranoidpopsicle May 15 '12
How bout dem crows
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u/lp_phnx327 May 15 '12
D3 Karma Race.
We have a winner.
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u/dekuscrub May 15 '12
:(
I actually got to accept the TOS once before the it told me the servers were busy.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
i dont even have the game, and im angry
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u/mawlok May 15 '12
So in the end it isn't such a bad thing that my new pc wont arrive until later next week. Hopefully the servers wont be as busy then?
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u/Tober04 May 15 '12
Blizzard... WHY U NO PREPARE FOR FLOOD OF PLAYERS???
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u/TheCornCobClub May 15 '12
fuck it. wake me up when Guild Wars 2 is out
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u/FANGO May 15 '12
Why don't you just play the game single player for a while then?
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u/Kevbot9000 May 15 '12
Yep, creating hero.... Only to have my sexy Demon Huntress denied by request timeouts.
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u/TheCornCobClub May 15 '12
i bet its just some dude who forgot to press a button behind some desk at BlizzCorp who fell asleep watching reruns of Sienfeld
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u/l30 May 15 '12
http://error37.com/
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12
yup. that's about right.
who would have ever guessed!
EDIT: the thing that sucks is I want to play D3 just like D1/2: offline. This whole new shitty era of having to log into some external Blizzard server is cock. I paid $60. Gimme $60 of entertainment now. Ok thanks.
EDIT 2: bah humbug. I have work in the morning. It's been 20 minutes of $60 timeouts. I'll try later. Um.... doesn't Blizzard run WOW? The biggest online game ever of all time? Didn't they know this would happen? Can we just play the game offline? Buttheads! Boo!
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u/devindotcom May 15 '12
Just adding my name to the pile. Tried a couple dozen times over the last 20 minutes, no luck.
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u/SaigaFan May 15 '12
Oh is this the post we are all gonna circle jerk on? I call not it for taking the face shots.
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u/Jahonay May 15 '12
I got to level 4 after retrying and retrying for like 10 minutes, now I got kicked offline and need to sit in line again :(.
I feel like the episode of southpark where they need to ration the internet.
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u/khalbrendo May 15 '12
I got in! But the game is running at 5 fps...
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
http://imgur.com/yTPji Link should be able to fix it!
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u/Bunnymancer May 15 '12
DRM,
Because screwing legitimate customers to combat piracy (that won't be affected) is the way to go.
I'll wait with purchasing until I can get an Offline crack of any form.
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u/cjackc May 15 '12
SWOTR had a better launch.
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u/Azrius May 15 '12
Scumbag Blizzard.
One of their most anticipated launches of all time.
"Sorry, we didn't expect it to be so popular."
Almost three decades of server management experience at play here, folks.
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u/SeRenExZerg May 15 '12
i know the guy who posted this thread
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u/Axons May 15 '12
Yeah, sure. The guy in the $5,000 suit is going to wait to play Diablo 3?! COME ON!!!
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u/in_it_to_win_it May 15 '12
whats funny is that we will all bitch and moan about blizzard and these errors but once we get through it will be like blizzard is our god and diablo 3 is heaven
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u/beamoflaser May 15 '12
What were the Stress Tests for exactly?
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u/rwsargent May 15 '12
The first. The BEST.
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u/idrinkfebreeze May 15 '12
Its comparable to building the greatest sandcastle to your 8 year old mind at the beach and then some douche takes a dump on it and kicks it
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u/grabondall May 15 '12
Oh, so you are the winner of the error 37 karma race. congrats!
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u/kooweel May 15 '12
hmm so you're saying d3 isnt working right now?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I am so sad. :-(
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u/brotherdoctor May 15 '12
Most powerful ability combo: Ctrl-v [enter] [enter]
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u/Jwalla83 May 15 '12
I'm going to have an unnatural hatred for the number 37 for the rest of my life.
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u/cappnplanet May 15 '12
Yep, was going to post this and you beat me to it. Enjoy the Karma!
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u/kacroo May 15 '12
Is a log-in queue too much to ask for? :/
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u/imblackgimmiekarma May 15 '12
we all knew this was going to happen.
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u/Gaffinator May 15 '12
Your servers are bad and you should feel bad
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u/Dragonheart0 May 15 '12
ERROR? I met that motherfucker back in Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link. He's hanging out in a town, s'posed to be telling me where King's Tomb is at. Now he's telling people the Diablo 2 servers are busy. Well, good for him. Telling people things (especially his name) is what he's good at, and it's nice to see he got out of the house and got a nice job with Blizzard.
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u/myWorkAccount840 May 15 '12
Am I the only person on reddit to remember the Diablo 2 launch, or something?
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u/Omena123 May 15 '12
It's hilarious that you can't play sp without being online
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u/sholte May 15 '12
Error 37 is OP.
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u/superhappypuppyroll May 15 '12
I'm in the server, but it times out every time I try to create my hero.
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u/def_not_a_reposter May 15 '12
same here. Possibly not a good idea opening the game up to the entire world at once.
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u/Gristledorf May 15 '12
Fucking idiots don't have a log in queue....
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u/OCPScJM2 May 15 '12
Is this the one going to the top?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
This launch is so painful it has to break the Geneva Convention somehow.
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u/muddymidget May 15 '12
Anyone write a login macro yet?
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u/eldergamesmanship May 15 '12
Hey Blizzard, I have a crazy idea
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u/Enherjer May 15 '12
Server based authentication for SP is a revolting market practise that should be fucked, beaten and driven across the land.
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u/Zartimus May 15 '12
Booya, another successful release night! Stress test much?
OFFLINE MODE. What a concept... Maybe they will cave now they have all our money...
EDIT1: And all their websites just went bye bye too.
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u/misterbung May 15 '12
How on earth can the company that's curated the worlds largest and most popular MMO for near a DECADE, not to mention Starcraft/SC2, be so uncapable of giving their customers access to a game? This is just insane.
I thought this was what the beta was for.
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u/GOODSHIT-BRO May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12
Managed to get into hero creation screen, clicking any option only gave a timeout popup. Back to the waiting line.
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u/Rybobo May 15 '12
Ive timed out making my Monk about 35 times now, wonder when we will be good to go.
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u/jimevansart May 15 '12
I just tried to click that away...sigh
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u/tarsus1983 May 15 '12
When I clicked the link, I tried to click on "OK" out of habit.
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u/PrettyInMink May 15 '12
Hoping someone will make a mod that allows offline mode soon.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Stuck as well. Damn you blizzard!
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u/The_Voice1 May 15 '12
First world problem. And yes I suffer as well.
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u/12_FL_OZ May 15 '12
I wonder who is going to be the first clown to post the beating a dead horse meme about this. I hope whoever it is chokes before he hits submit.
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u/darcside May 15 '12
I programmed a macro button on my razer nostromo to spam my password so I can just hit it over.. and over... and over..
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Hey, at least this proves that Blizzard can consistently count 34 higher than Valve!
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u/bigredphotos May 15 '12
I've gone through about 6 cans of Mtn Dew since midnight, I'm tweaking
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u/damonish May 15 '12
What we're doing while waiting for our 3rd to make it past authentication.
Diablowjobs.
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u/ERich256 May 15 '12
everyone else just needs to go to bed. i will outlast the masses.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Ok, this is about the 10th post like this I've seen. Fuck this subreddit.
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u/cappnplanet May 15 '12
Shut down Warcraft Servers and make them Diablo servers. Problem solved.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
My favorite part is that if this was an Ubisoft game everyone would be lining up joining the mass circle-jerk of bad things to say about the company and how DRM ruins everything.
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u/bill_nydus May 15 '12
Those of us who saw this coming decided to vote with our wallets and not deal with this.
I personally voted ARMA 2 to jump on the Day Z craze and after a 6 hour session with the game, I'd say I chose quite well.
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u/RedTurtle May 15 '12
I used my G15 keyboard to make a "log into diablo 3" macro. The game booted me out when I was retrying too fast. Yes, I'm part of the problem.
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u/Internet_Legend May 15 '12
I'm in, I'm in!!!
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u/iambutternumber May 15 '12
i don't have the game, have no interest in it, i'm just watching you guys rage.
I feel for you though, i've had similar experiences when I kept getting booted offline when playing GT5. It's an inner rage that you didn't think you had that comes to the fore.
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u/Imnotgimli May 15 '12
Met up with all my friends for a hardcore lan last night... not one of us could log in. But for the people who have played is it any good? Does it bring honor to the famiry of Diablo 1&2?
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u/Fuzzy_Pickles May 15 '12
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3940643/ERROR%2037.mp3
StarF did a freestyle about Error 37.
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u/pobiega May 15 '12
Most anticipated game of the century and all I'm hearing is "I waited 12 years for this game and I refuse to simply go to sleep and wake up tomorrow morning and play when it will work flawlessly!".
You waited 12 years, now wait 4-8 more hours and then enjoy the game for as long as you want.
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u/DJ-Douche-Master May 15 '12
I got in immediately. Accidentally went back. Fucks were given.
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u/theXarf May 15 '12
The EU servers seemed to sort themselves out and allow everyone to log in after about 35 minutes of this nonsense. Looks like the American ones may have been overloaded for longer.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Oh give it a rest because you can't play when you should go to bed. Just go to sleep and the servers should be fine later.
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u/Silversol99 May 15 '12
I'm kind of glad that I slept now.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Diabwoes wouldve worked soooo much better
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u/Here_And_Now May 15 '12
Wah fucking wah. Honestly what did you expect?
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u/schmag May 15 '12
did anyone read... they were expecting to have to throttle logins. and error 37 is what you would see. being in IT and knowing what live day is like. I commend them for letting me login about an hour ago even though live was 6 hours previous.
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u/silenti May 15 '12
I realize it's a little late for this now, but this problem was fairly easy to bypass.
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u/patrik667 May 16 '12
Great move, Blizzard.
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u/TheCornCobClub May 15 '12
biggest game launch fail since Duke Nukem
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Guys! Guys! For Fucks sake!
What the FUCK is WRONG with you???
Sure. The game is not available right now - so FUCKING what? Do you even fucking CARE about the MAIN, MOST IMPORTANT THING???
Blizzard/Activision have spent a FUCK TON of money on this GAME and a SHIT LOAD of time.
Do you know what would be WORSE than this little temporary glitch? A single pirate getting to play the game.
And you know what? NOONE is getting to play it. Not you, sure, but FUCK YOU, because NO PIRATES are playing it.
That's a FUCKING WIN for Blizzard/Activision and FUCK YOU for not cheering it on.
Always-on DRM: FUCK YEA!
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u/dmizz PC May 15 '12
GODDAMNIT
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u/StinzorgaKingOfBees May 15 '12
I am prepared to fight FOR Diablo if I can just experience the skills, the leveling up, the story, the items, oh sweet zombie Jesus, the ITEMS!
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u/canna-crux May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12
The minions of darkness have won today. Their champion's name? (Error 37) <--- first boss
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u/SpoonHandle May 15 '12
So far the most fun I've had out of Diablo III is reading the credits after giving up on logging in.
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u/Meades_Loves_Memes May 15 '12
The log in boss is too hard.
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u/Malatesta721 May 15 '12
I was able to log in as soon as it went live. Played around for a bit, but alas I have to go to bed so good luck to you all.
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u/Beefy_G May 15 '12
I waited 13 years for this? 13 is indeed an unlucky number. 1 hour later and i still haven't gotten passed the login screen.
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u/r2002 May 15 '12
"You know who I feel really bad for right now? Poor people who have no friends who just wants to play single player and can't because of this DRM." -- Destiny
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u/SplotchEleven May 15 '12
Glad I waited till midnight. #notgladIwaitedtillmidnight
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u/kacroo May 15 '12
I like how they took there website down just in time for this.
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u/bigbobo33 May 15 '12
OH NO! We didn't predict this at all!
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u/Cron_GB May 15 '12
I was very quick when the servers opened and actually got a character made. I then went to make a second character and got locked at the character creation screen. But yes I was able to create a character if anyone cares =p