Diablo 3 User Scores Tank Over Connection Woes

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[citation][nom]benikens[/nom]Duke Nukem Forever wasn't the most 'polished' of games though. Straight up Blizzard made a bad call going with DRM it's hated everywhere it is implemented, if the game had launched with the same server issues but people could play single player offline till the multiplayer server's recovered this wouldn't be such an issue. In fact if all the people playing single player could do so offline, the server's probably wouldn't have overloaded and error 37 might've been a minority problem instead of a majority.[/citation]
That's the common sense approach.

The problem is, under Kotick style thinking, common sense has no place. I guarantee you the thinking of online only play was more like "We need single player gamers to play online so they have to compete with everyone else for loot drops which are controlled by the server thus making it more likely they will want to go to the RMAH and spend money".
 
[citation][nom]wildkitten[/nom]Honestly, is any objective person surprised?The whole argument of why you had to be online only for single player, to ensure single player items didn't end up on the RMAH, was destroyed when they announced you could play outside your region, but the drops you get from outside your region could not be placed on the RMAH. If they can ensure that inter-region items can't be placed on the RMAH, they could just as easily make sure offline single player items could not be placed on it as well.With all of the news late last year and the beginning of this year of features being removed, PvP being one example, who wants to bet these features show up in have to pay for DLC.Fact is, D3 smacks of Bobby Kotick-ish style of game development. I know when Vivendi bought Activision from him that he had some control of Activision Blizzard built into his contract, but still, until Vivendi wises up and fires him as CEO of Activision Blizzard he is going to destroy a lot of great game franchises. It's amazing how much of a hit Blizzard's reputation has taken since they were made a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard and under Kotick's control.[/citation]

when vivindi bought blizzard, they told bobby he cant lay a effing hand on blizzard.

not haveing pvp... i understand, its either another 6 months of waiting, or get it now
the online error well... imagine a ddos attack, but done manually, that's basally whats happening.

they let the game out because single player and multiplayer are done, and most errors in the game currently are things that a closed beta couldnt fix, because they are obscure things you have to do.

[citation][nom]ememememe2041[/nom]good, blizzard deserves to get mocked and told about their poor service!! they have had wow and sc2 for benchmarks and they should learn from their mistakes!![/citation]

wow grew slowly enough, but still i have heard the 2 hour waits to get online, and starcraft didnt require internet for anything but achievements.
this is NOTHING that could have ever been adaquitly prepared for, because even if you could play offline, the online portion would be broke, because everyone wants that first, offline is the diversion.

[citation][nom]dormantreign[/nom]Want to play a really good game with better graphics, check out Titan Quest. Even today it holds it own and there is none of the ALWAYS ONLINE s.h.i..t. Here's a comparison video i did on the two awhile back.youtube.com/watch?v=hR0-fhJ6qAc[/citation]

if there is one thing i hate in games its fog, i despise it, if thats in the full game... bad decision... also if the lag is that bad... wow... but aside from that, diablo 3 doesnt look graphicaly bad, minus the fog.

[citation][nom]bison88[/nom]With regards to the end of the article compared to Starcraft II's success, well, both Starcraft II and Diablo 3 are going to be a success, period. It's Blizzard and they are two different series where some will say broke grounds on there respective genre's. They sold a lot of copies and will make a lot of money, but success isn't always measured by sales, that's only in the corporate realm. A lot of people were disappointed with Starcraft II and felt that breaking the game into 3 separate pieces was a cheesy way for Blizzard to profit more off what they seen as one solid sequel. Not to mention people also bitched about the graphics, the units, and expected far more for the time they spent waiting and money that was thrown into it.Starcraft II has a die-hard community and pretty much defines e-gaming so its success was pretty much set in stone regardless so long as the game wasn't really really really bad which it was far from. It kept to the basics and did very little else. Whatever bad comes from Diablo 3 now will most likely only affect Diablo 4, and by that time people will probably have forgot all the bad things that happened during Diablo 3's release and will fall head over heels all over again.The forced connectivity to the Internet that these developers are doing with games is BULLSHIT. For multiplayer that makes sense, for single player you just break games when no connectivity is present suddenly you have a $60 coaster.[/citation]

ill fight you on that, diablo is a rouge like with the brutal difficulty taken out, just because it became popular doesn't mean it ever broke ground.

 
I'm so glad I skipped Diablo 3. I was seriously thinking about it. I started getting worried when news reports of them removing content from the game were surfacing. The auction house and always-on DRM finally pushed me over the fence not to buy the game. I really wanted to play a great single player or 4-person cooperative hack and slash RPG. Unfortunately, I think they tried to monetize this one too aggressively, cut back too much on content, and didn't meet the bar set by previous installments.

This is a shame. However, we have smaller developers ready to come in and show the big boys what they're doing wrong. I think Torchlight 2 will be a much more satisfying experience.
 
I don't really care that much about video games, but I must say I was expecting a lot more from Diablo 3, being a fan of the series. In my opinion it completely fell through on atmosphere, which was the most important aspect of the game for me. As a hack-and-slash game it holds up, but as a sequel to the Diablo series it falls flat - my opinion. To me it feels like they were trying to capture the disposable income of the WoW fan base by essentially mixing the two games. The fear and horror created by Diablo 1, and to a slightly lesser extent diablo 2 (though overall a better game), is fundamentally incompatible with the bright, friendly, safety-scissors graphic style of WoW. The character leveling system was an interesting change, has its pro's and con's; DRM has its function I suppose; loot is diverse and entertaining; level design not bad, if a bit linear. But it's just not Diablo. I remember in Diablo 1 being afraid to go further into dungeons, looking for any movements in the dark. Diablo 2 lightened up a bit but had a vastly improved combat and item system as well as more epic story. Diablo 3 just doesn't bring anything to the table. Bad voice acting, same old linear quests, poor writing, unrealistic graphics. And the auction house using real money? That's a rookie mistake.

Conclusion: decent hack-and-slash game, failure of a Diablo sequel.
 
I didn't log in at midnight. About 5 hours after. Day 1 game play was smooth. Day 2, I spent more time play, and it has been smooth as well. The experience has been great. I got to play solo, as well as with my friends online.

No doubt, there are quite a number of players got affected. I suspect there are many more "quiet" ones who are busy playing and have no time for forums or Metacritics.

Diablo III, loving it so far.
 
D3 is a solid 8. But the server problems are getting old. I expected problems, and my first 7 hours of game play was flawless. But after that, the servers just keep going down.

Im sure the server issues will get sorted out, but its annoying for now.

There are a lot of little things that are greatly improved over diablo 2, and if you try to go back and play D2 after spending 10 or 20 hours in D3.....D2 just feels like a really crappy game after that.

There are touches of lore all over the place, which i really like. Lots of pocket dungens and events mixed into the areas.

But then there are areas that they missed the boat on. I wish they had aimed higher on graphics, the graphics look 4 or 5 years old.
 
I can't believe with all the time they've had in the testing and the live testing that they're not doing this on purpose to just see how far they can push you on again this presold for years months decades ahead of time to come out with this many bugs and this many hangups with the DRM to be real.

If this is Diablo 3 then torchlight2 must be the next diamond in the rough roughly the same game this torchlight 1 In the Way of mechanics I don't see how they could screw this one up and not come up smelling like roses

Oh yeah please go to conquest frontier wars on kickstart for more DRM less game
 
Most whiners about technical things are people that doesn't know anything about programming or technical problems.
As I see them are like the fat guy in the picture.
 
One does not simply login into Diablo3... Not with a thousand retries could you do it. It is folly!

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btw, server seems fine now. i just have the "online all the time" requirement. wish pirates could make it offline so i could still play it 10-20years from now. no offence
 
Diablo 3 will be nearly impossible to pirate and play thanks to its dependance on Battle.net
This is pure BS. It's always possible to redirect the game to localhost and run some kind of server emulator. It's just a matter of reverse-engineering the protocol (like for Assassin's Creed).
 
"Not to mention the loss of features and feeling of the last two games." This and the price + online connection DRM is the reason why I will not be buying Diablo 3 and will instead be waiting for Torchlight 2 which is made by the same people who made Diablo 2.
 
"Diablo 3 will be nearly impossible to pirate and play thanks to its dependance on Battle.net." --> "dependence"

These articles still need better proofreading.
 
Giving 0/10 is perfectly reasonable for people who can't play the game...How are you supposed to give anything but a 0 when you paid 60 bucks for something that doesn't work.
 
In the immortal words of Lo Wang (Shadow Warrior circa 1997), "Burn baby burn, flames are getting hi-ya!"
 
The servers always seem to go down when I get home 🙁

So for those of us that work and try to log on at peak hours end up disappointed and question our decision to.purchase the game. I am hoping the issues are resolved by the weekend.
 
[citation][nom]dormantreign[/nom]Want to play a really good game with better graphics, check out Titan Quest. Even today it holds it own and there is none of the ALWAYS ONLINE s.h.i..t. Here's a comparison video i did on the two awhile back.youtube.com/watch?v=hR0-fhJ6qAc[/citation]

Cool review man, I like your commentary, and damn I was going to buy Diablo 3 but the issues you brought forward have made me wait until the final reviews are in, also if the game plays crappy when the internet is in use by other people then I think I won't be buying Diablo 3 until they release a single player version, or a cracked version that works offline.
 
Well , they rated the game very low which will stay for ever....
Why bother and allow kids to rate it since its will be fine soon ?
All wow expansions successed... and yet, they had problems on launch...
What the problem to be online all the time? for me i dont , when im not online it means im at work or hanging out ... so ofc no internet and im not playing d3...
But the part is , at home , I play like crazy , and i like this game
I give it 9/10
 
Came home from work on the 15th and played for a couple hours without issue before getting kicked off the server. Took the day of yesterday (the 16th) and played all day. Yeah, the first day was a little ruff (as was to be expected), but its pretty smooth now. Not really a bid deal. Everyone waited years for it, but can't last one more day for servers to get sorted out?
 
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