Quote (PARO @ May 28 2023 04:29pm)
What does Blizzard mean by "today's player behavior"? The fact that they no longer play Diablo II in 2023, as they did in 2001. A point that the company did not even know how to anticipate during the various beta phases. "Today, a new player can learn about different ways to play, and some of them are very database intensive due to the creation, loading and deletion of games in a very short period of time" , explains Blizzard. Therefore, Diablo II: Resurrected must better adapt to the times, forcing an architectural review — "which will take time to build, test and implement".
Blizzard is currently working to correct, little by little, the various concerns (it even calls on third parties to speed up the process) – knowing that others will appear in the days to come. In the meantime, small palliatives will be applied: a limitation of the number of games created in a short period of time and the establishment of queues to connect (like in World of Warcraft). The bulk of the work will revolve around a restructuring that will relieve the servers. Will the community be patient? Nothing is less sure.
This is the d2 forum, not the d2r forum...