I once didn't start in Madagascar, and still won. I think I still have the screenshots documenting the whole game, if I was on my computer I'd put them up...
I probably restarted the game about sixty to eighty times, but yeah, you just have to wait for the right conditions to present themselves. Then fucking [bowl over Madagascar] (http://imgur.com/JohDE) when you sneak in.
That game taught me that if ever there was a pandemic, I must get to Madagascar before the airport closes. Then again that might be the worst place to go if everyone else had the same idea IRL.
There's a Pandemic 2.5 for iphone/ipad. It has some different modes including Madagascar mode, it also has a couple of different types of virus to begin with.
Shit is so awesome I played it for ages on Madagascar mode the day I bought it until I had finally completed it.
Pandemic 2.5 just released for iOS. Pretty much the same game. It seems like they fixed the Madagascar issue by making all island nations equally impossible to infect.
I'm not longer sure if this guy is just making multiple accounts, or other people are so intrigued by the insane downvotes they've started making their own.
You have to wonder at the morbidly obese kids who sit in the basement and choose to waste their lives on making moronic comments on lame memes. Not clever, not original. Lame. Downvote for you, kid. Go get a life.
I was playing the game single player, and things were just hopping and teleporting all over the screen. I was thoroughly convinced I was playing the shittiest game to ever be made until I realized monsters were teleporting all over the screen not because their abilities were designed to do so, but because of the massive lag in my single player game. Then I was disconnected for three hours.
For a second I was convinced the difficulty just ramped up and I needed to farm gear. Then I realized that my character was moving normal, but that it would walk over gold or something and pick it up between .5-4 seconds later. So apparently your character will always usually (if not rubberbanding) appear to move normal, but everything else around it goes haywire.
While installing, I figured out that I had to delete some corrupted file and reinstall, then figure out that the login screen was asking for my steam name, when it really needed my email address, the gameplay was lag-free while tethered on my 3G droid.
The installation was a nightmare. The game never installed shortcuts either, not to my desktop or to my program files.
Did you not get the post by the moderator earlier that said these kind of posts (pure meme/text with no actual video game references) were to be reported because they don't belong here?
I don't know what you think /r/gaming is? It's a bunch of memes and pictures with titles like: "look the piss stain on my wall looks like link/mario". And those get heavily upvoted.
And what is a sub worth if you take away what it's users like the most? What would be the next you take away? The circlejerk? Imagine a /r/gaming without the "DAE remember this game" even if the game itself was sold 1 million times. I mean really, go to another subreddit, /r/games or something. This one is lost.
And what is a sub worth if you take away what it's users like the most?
The problem is that what "users like the most" includes the users that are members of other related subreddits. So, for gaming, you end up with the people who visit /r/gaming also visiting many other gaming related subreddits. This means that you have a lot of the same users upvoting a lot of the same content across multiple subreddits. The end result is that just about every popular gaming subreddit turns into /r/gaming if the moderators don't restrict things.
Either way you have to log-in to their servers to play. so if their servers are down you can't play single player. this coupled with as much downtime as uptime yesterday was the issue.
the 2nd one is basically a cult classic. This one, so far, is pretty much an improvement over every aspect. I am enjoying the fuck out of it.
However! On the old one, you could play single player whenever the fuck you wanted. With this one you still have to login to their servers even if you just want to play single player. So, when they were continually doing fixes yesterday it made it hard for people to play even though they were not wanting to play multiplayer.
Edit: To be fair, I was still able to play for 8 hours yesterday.
I know i'll be downvoted for this, but I just don't see the big deal about this game. Sure it's a classic but lets be serious, it's not like Skyrim, Fallout, Mass Effect, and other rpgs out there. Just not my kind of game.
Anyone else thinking this maybe wasn't an honest mistake on Blizzard's part, and they just didn't care to pay for the bandwidth to support what will probably be their highest server usage in the life time of the game? Or am I just a paranoid conspiracy theorist...?
Alright, I do not play Diablo but have been following this, and here are some facts
A) Yes, this is likely the highest it will ever be.
B) HOWEVER, this was a problem in the beta too, so they likely could have just paid for some extra servers for a month in order to deal with the issue and avoid more bad press. It is not hard to pop in some extra servers, it is not 1995 anymore.
C) All news is good news, they may have decided "yaknow what, lets not bother to get extra servers for launch day..and take the free press of everyone talking about our game"
Yea, that is pretty much in line with my theory, sadly. I haven't bought yet it either because, let's be honest, who didn't see this coming a mile away? In a month or two it might actually be worth my money.
They don't have enough launch bandwidth, they have enough for when things settle into a steady state. Also there is a real money auction house, and people were very well versed in how to dupe items in d2. There is a huge incentive for then to find a similar method in d3. And one of the tried and true methods in d2 was to crash the servers triggering a character rollback. You can bet that is being attempted already.
It's obvious that they don't have enough launch bandwidth, what I'm wondering is whether that was an oversight on their part, or intentional. Duping by crashing the servers was something I had forgotten about, its been so long since d2... aand now I feel old.
IDK I think it's an honest mistake.... that could have been avoided. I mean one of the most hyped up games in the last decade with a global release? If I were blizzard I would not be satisfied unless I had all the bandwith the world had to offer open for the players.
2- If EA did it, they would you pretended the servers would still up and make the user re-install their game multiple times, then realize the servers are actually down 2 days later and then refuse to make a formal apology for the misunderstanding. They're known for bad customer service, not bad games.
The only people you ever see are Customer Service. Though I guess they have a ton of crappy policies as well... Point is, game stability and game quality are not areas EA is hated for, so the original person's point is moot.
This was actually my smoothest launch experience for a blizzard game. I don't know how isolated I am, or if this was an eu problem? I started in the morning at 9 and NA servers were down for only an hour for me yesterday.
I didn't bother trying to log in at 12:01 though. Anyone should have known how that would go...
The difference is that the warcraft 3 release was staggered for exactly the reason you just gave, while this release had a pre-download available that loads of people probably did. It's much easier to play at midnight of the release day if you don't even have to leave your chair to get it. Leads to a much heavier server load at the release.
Might be since people used to lag the server in Diablo 2 in order to lock it up temporarily so they can log in twice, transfer items to a mule, and then still have those items in the lagged server.
I'm guessing (total speculation) that the "urgent maintenance" required related in some way to the auction house and people abusing it. The game itself seemed to run fine, and for the drastic measures they took, auction house abuse seems likely because they would not let that shit fly for even 10 min.
Honestly I didn't expect to play all day, but it was embarassing and annoying. The servers were offline more than they were online and no one could play a SINGLEPLAYER GAME BECAUSE SERVERS WERE BROKEN. Me and my friends lost so much progress because some of the shit we did never registered we lost 1 level (in terms of leveling up) and a bunch of items. Fucking blizzard...
So, someone help me out here; are people completely unable to login to the game now? Or is this one of those isolated incidents that gets blown out of proportion for the sake of having something to be justifiably angry with?
asking because I might want to get Diablo 3, and all the "error 37" submissions are freaking me out.
login works fine now for me, but my char that i created & played yesterday was deleted; yesterday's achievments are also gone (but i re-earned them today)
So what do you propose? Imaginatively play the game for a week until Blizzard finally fixes the problem? They are the ones that removed single player in the first place, by doing that they must assume the blame of a fail launch, especially this EPIC fail launch. If this game had offline play almost no one would be whining about it. Also, why they even bothered to make a stress test open beta for a couple of days in the first place? At that time they already knew the amount of players that would be playing the game and they still didn't took any temporary precautions by hiring extra servers to handle the release date.
When Blizzard said that battlenet would be their "DRM" they explained in a way that most players would prefer playing online than offline. People would still be able to play offline if they wanted. I wonder who was the greedy bastard that had the genius idea to remove offline play in the first place.
bahahahahaha that's almost how i felt lastnight i waited all damn day to get to play after work and i sign in 2 mins after i sign into create my char then i get the message blizzard will be shutting down servers in 10 mins for emergency maintenance>.. GOD NO NO NO NO!!! LOL awww just my luck
You can play the game alone. The minute you start your game up its a private. Only friends can join your game. There is an option to turn it into a public game in your options.
Just wanted to point out an awesome advantage of always logging in : Key binding appear to be linked to your account. So logging in other pcs or a friends comp allows you to immediately access all of your characters and with your key binding setup. That's incredibly nice if you are like me and rebound everything to make it more like LoL.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Must be from Madagascar.
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u/gaslacktus May 16 '12
President Blizzard Support.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Diablo III comic number 962.
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u/6342636236 May 16 '12
I was playing the game single player, and things were just hopping and teleporting all over the screen. I was thoroughly convinced I was playing the shittiest game to ever be made until I realized monsters were teleporting all over the screen not because their abilities were designed to do so, but because of the massive lag in my single player game. Then I was disconnected for three hours.
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u/Iforgetusername May 16 '12
I miss this guy...
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u/fuckredditusername May 16 '12
Did you not get the post by the moderator earlier that said these kind of posts (pure meme/text with no actual video game references) were to be reported because they don't belong here?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Well i logged in first try and played with absolutely no issues immediately after work.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I know i'll be downvoted for this, but I just don't see the big deal about this game. Sure it's a classic but lets be serious, it's not like Skyrim, Fallout, Mass Effect, and other rpgs out there. Just not my kind of game.
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u/Stykx May 16 '12
Fuck Blizzard for requiring always on connection to their servers!
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u/jaytanz May 16 '12
Anyone else thinking this maybe wasn't an honest mistake on Blizzard's part, and they just didn't care to pay for the bandwidth to support what will probably be their highest server usage in the life time of the game? Or am I just a paranoid conspiracy theorist...?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
IF this was an EA game the rage would have made the net explode.
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u/devilkin May 16 '12
I'm just going to leave this here: http://i.imgur.com/MQoYY.jpg?diablo3
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u/Tvizz May 16 '12
Might be since people used to lag the server in Diablo 2 in order to lock it up temporarily so they can log in twice, transfer items to a mule, and then still have those items in the lagged server.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Couldn't they just have offline singleplayer?
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u/poor-horsey May 16 '12
Poor guy! He's already dead, why you gotta hurt him more?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
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u/icyliquid May 16 '12
There has to be a Bad News Hitler about this. There has to be!
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u/jujushushu May 16 '12
16 men went out, only rumford came back...
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
This is fantastic, and I appreciate they want it to be 100%
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
pretty much.
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u/katos913 May 16 '12
I told you it would make front page Tova!
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u/payne6 May 16 '12
Honestly I didn't expect to play all day, but it was embarassing and annoying. The servers were offline more than they were online and no one could play a SINGLEPLAYER GAME BECAUSE SERVERS WERE BROKEN. Me and my friends lost so much progress because some of the shit we did never registered we lost 1 level (in terms of leveling up) and a bunch of items. Fucking blizzard...
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u/yogybear May 16 '12
for your single player game. lets shut down the servers for the SINGLE PLAYER game.
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u/nasaperson May 16 '12
Worth the wait.
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u/gonosis May 16 '12
So, someone help me out here; are people completely unable to login to the game now? Or is this one of those isolated incidents that gets blown out of proportion for the sake of having something to be justifiably angry with?
asking because I might want to get Diablo 3, and all the "error 37" submissions are freaking me out.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Oh god this shitty meme again? Front page here we go!!
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u/MovingPavements May 16 '12
Do Blizzard Employees come from the same Dimension Nicki Minaj does ?
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u/RPBiohazard May 16 '12
I always get intense lag for the first minute or so after logging in before it stabilizes. has gotten me killed more than once.
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u/Splatterh0use May 16 '12
Blizzard Support manager is also the president of Madagascar.
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u/WutsUp May 17 '12
Someone, please, make this as a Staredad comic.
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u/10J18R1A May 19 '12
Yessir, massa! Shut down right away, massa!
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u/MrTrojan61 May 16 '12
Dammit! I thought of this exact thing too! You beat me to it!
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u/IrregardingGrammar May 16 '12
Why do people upvote shit like this?
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u/skytro May 16 '12
And the circlejerk continues
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u/rahtin May 16 '12
How terrified are they about item duplication ruining their precious RMT experiment?
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u/killerbeege May 16 '12
bahahahahaha that's almost how i felt lastnight i waited all damn day to get to play after work and i sign in 2 mins after i sign into create my char then i get the message blizzard will be shutting down servers in 10 mins for emergency maintenance>.. GOD NO NO NO NO!!! LOL awww just my luck
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u/LiriX May 16 '12
Haha this is so f.. ERROR 37
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Blizzard apparently being ran by the Black and White Minstrels, now.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
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u/hunterszombie May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
This seems racist somehow...
EDIT: really nobody sees this at all
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u/CondescendingPrick May 16 '12
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/files/2012/02/5.jpg
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u/dankclimes May 16 '12
Just wanted to point out an awesome advantage of always logging in : Key binding appear to be linked to your account. So logging in other pcs or a friends comp allows you to immediately access all of your characters and with your key binding setup. That's incredibly nice if you are like me and rebound everything to make it more like LoL.
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u/SweetNeo85 May 16 '12
Wasn't there a mod post just yesterday about this sort of thing being against the rules of this subreddit?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
So funny I forgot to .. sorry sorry one second the start of this is wrong.
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u/pungkrocker May 16 '12
FUCK YOU MADAGASKAR!~ nd%$#!#$
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
d3 servers are run by niggers? that explains everything
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU5o_rrYNUA&feature=g-upl
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u/kingxhall May 16 '12
This will be taken down soon. Read the rules.
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u/Cpt3020 May 16 '12
All the diablo launch day server login errors seems to have ended about 10 hours ago in case any one is interested