savage af

@Epoch

Like I said, the game at this point was fully done. The family and friends testing was step 1 to introduce more testers to the servers. Keep digging and you will find they started offering "beta" keys to the public (well only if you had Blizz account IIRC).
They gave out those keys in batches to further increase load on the server. This was a server stress test!!

Don't tell me I don't know how it went down, been there right after the announcement at WWI Paris and followed every bit of info available. Would have left it alone if I had known beforehand how this game turned out to be. Meh

This post was edited by Djunior on May 22 2018 06:52am

So your issue was user error, like I said.



This post was edited by Ep0ch on May 22 2018 06:57am

You know what is savage? This ultimate ARPG (cough) sitting dead in the water slowly rotting away. They should reset every 2 weeks maybe then they would have a consistent playerbase of maybe a few hundred or so.

Meantime I play D2 --> still the greatest ARPG ever.

Literally everyone plays diablo 2. (including about 500k private bots, run by certain webshops, people, companies, that blizz can NOT EVER stop short of taking diablo 2 offline...)

Personally I prefer diablo 1. still. (but no multiplayer )

-e

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This post was edited by Ep0ch on May 22 2018 07:03am

You can read right? Every game I run runs smooth. My pc runs smooth. No hickups. No crashes. Fully patched.

You seem annoyed there are people who don't like D3. Guess what, it's the mayority. People who still stick with D3 after that whole shitfest well I dunno man.
You must fall in the category they made this game for: ultra casual who can't put up with game systems that you need to examine for more then a few seconds.
But all of those casuals quited long time ago and moved on to the next piece of shovelware.

edit: ok will check ty

edit 2: although I like D1 mostly for the story and how it all started, it's just to old. D2 is probably coming close to that point but for now still #1 in my book

This post was edited by Djunior on May 22 2018 07:10am

I never had issues back then, aside from login issue, but that was addressed almost right away.

There was several occasions where blizz server were dossed, I don't know many people who claim to have had the comp you say you had at the time, and also had all those issues esp with diablo 3.

-e

I am certain that 2010 version of you was messing up your stability VIA bad isp/bad modem location/spyware/malware/etc or any combination of these things.

I am not trying to "pick a fight" or w/e, What I am saying is I'm not sure anything you say will be able to convince me 100% otherwise, short of actual videos of you at the time experiencing these issues, and also, all the "user errors" i mentioned were ruled out, at the time...

-e2

Also, I am not a big fan of D3 but I do see its appeal. I am a hardcore blizznorth fan, and because of that, I will always look at d3 as a bastard child of great disappointment, but It's fam, so I still love it, in a I barely play it more than 3 weeks a year.
I am a BIG fan of diablo 1. ESP belzebub. It is the epitome of what the diablo franchise should be imo.
Diablo 2 was great, and still is, but imo, it lost some of the "darkness" that made the first one so great.
That same darkness is totally absent from diablo 3.

-e3

The games own popularity is part of the reason it had "stability issues"

Blizzard did not anticipate so many people would be playing at the same time. (open beta would have prepared them for this in all likely hood...) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I participated in the beta for diablo 3 for 3 months, and I was logged in and playing within seconds of the servers being switched to "live" I played like 15 hours a day, for the first 2 weeks, then like 5-10 hours a day for the next 2 years.

In all that time I rarely had stability issues that could be blamed on blizzard. (asside from the login auth servers being overloaded time and again)
Which is something they could fix, it just cost time, and money. But eventually, they got a handle on it. But not before about 10% of the games population rage quit.
Legends say that some of those RQ'ers are still fuming to this day.

Ok these edits are getting out of hand lol... time to call it quits.

This post was edited by Ep0ch on May 22 2018 07:27am

Diablo 3 is trash.

Friendly reminder.

I don't disagree, but it's what we got, and it could be, and used to be much worse...

-e

Yet, could have been so very much better.

This post was edited by Ep0ch on May 22 2018 08:13am

This isn't a compelling argument for someone to play.