Diablo 3 User Scores Tank Over Connection Woes

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[citation][nom]josefmengele[/nom]Blizzard is now EA 2.0 and sucks even harder.[/citation]

wrong wrong wrong

blizzard still makes quality games, u may not have liked diablo 3, but dont tell me SC2 isnt gold
unlike if EA ran blizzard. we would be on SC 14 by now
 
I have a $60 game that I can't play because the servers are, 'down for maintenance'.

- P
 
Thank god for Torchlight (and soon, Torchlight II).
Torchlight is developed by Runic Games, which are the original developers of Diablo and Diablo 2, while Diablo 3 is developed by most of the WoW team and some newbe's in the genre.

So if you want to play a new diablo, go and play Torchlight
 
I have the game but I've been too busy to play. I will play on Friday night. I hope by then they have the server kinks worked out. Although with a Friday night and no school/work the next day on the first week of launch I'm pretty certain that the servers will be packed. 🙁
Oh, well.. This wouldn't be the first game to have server issues right after launch. I'm sure once the kinks are worked out it will be pretty awesome.
 
[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]

Titan quest hits the formula almost spot on. I found it a great Diablo substitute during the 12 years I waited. Torchlight was a blast and Torchlight 2 might find my gaming dollar even after D3 has released. Nox was a great game as well but it's sprite based graphics so will only scratch the D2 itch, not D3. Others have failed miserably like Sacred.

So yeah Kudos to Titan Quest for sure but I'm having a co-op blast playing D3 and so long as the problems settle down the coming days I'll be happy with the outcome.
 
I am enjoying Diablo 3 content-wise so far, but this server issue is very disheartening. Got dropped from a server and not only did I lose some interesting items, I lost my progress in the game.

I can't help but get the feel that Blizzard has lost their marbles. It definitely makes me yearn for Blizzard of the old. Maybe Diablo 3 is just a lipstick on a pig. I'll have to check out Torchlight 2 when it comes out.
 
LOL, while I expected this sort of thing, what I did not expect was the piss poor support from Blizzard. A buddy of mine got banned from the in game chat for spamming and saying the same things over and over in a short period of time. This seemed pretty strange to him since he uses skype to communicate with his buddies in game, THEN he notice he was missing several things from his stash. This led him to believe that maybe his account was compromised. So he did the usual change passwords and what not, and then gave blizzard a call to verify what had happened. He waited on the phone for an hour, and when the blizzard employee finally picked up the blizzard employee said "I'm leaving in five minutes" and hung up the phone. Well needless to say my buddy was absolutely furious and his I-Phone almost became I-Shrapnel. I understand these types of things are to be expected, but shitty support and piss poor customer service aren't the way to handle it.
 
Ah, so predictable. I've made it to act II so far and have rarely had ANY problems. Once in awhile I'll get a little lag spike but with all things considered (servers at full throttle to the max) I've had a super smooth experience.
 
I don't see what all this complaining is... The graphics really aren't that bad, they just wanted the game to be usable by everyone... I have a screaming computer but I realize not everyone has a system that can run witchier 2 in ultra high... and my friend with a sandy bridge i7 and 560ti says 4 player games starts to stutter, so i doubt they could of pulled off making it look THAT much better... the spell effects take a heavy toll. The gameplay is fun, the story line is fun, the interface and system is decent... I haven't enjoyed a game this much in a while actually.... I don't see where all the hate is coming from
 
[citation][nom]bildo123[/nom]Ah, so predictable. I've made it to act II so far and have rarely had ANY problems. Once in awhile I'll get a little lag spike but with all things considered (servers at full throttle to the max) I've had a super smooth experience.[/citation]

Same Here! it's a great game. boo on the haters.
 
"Diablo 3 User Scores Tank Over Connection Woes"

I clicked on this article because I thought Blizzard gave a Diablo 3 User a Tank because of his Connection Woes and thought that was an epic way to compensate your customer base. Then I read the article.
 
And that other argument, about keeping track of Achievements online is also utter crap. In the short amount of time I got to play on release, got lucky and killed a rare spawn. Booted off the server later that night. Login day 2, and no achievement for me.
 
[citation][nom]vertigo_2000[/nom]"Diablo 3 User Scores Tank Over Connection Woes"I clicked on this article because I thought Blizzard gave a Diablo 3 User a Tank because of his Connection Woes and thought that was an epic way to compensate your customer base. Then I read the article.[/citation]

Haha, I thought the exact same thing when I saw the title.
 
While I do enjoy the game play of D3 the graphics are really not what I was hoping for. After waiting 12yrs I really thought they would surprise us with something that doesn't look like WoW ala diablo stylie. The classes are fun and the elements that made D2 addictive are there but with over 12 yrs to make a game I really thought it would have come out better. What Blizzard doesn't realize is that by keeping the hardware requirements low they disenfranchise the enthusiast who were hoping for something more and the very casual gamers that blizzard doesn't want to lose aren't impressed either. Long gone are the days when I needed to buy a new video card to play a new game. I have been chillin with my overclocked 5850 for a while and I feel no need to upgrade given the current requirements of the games available for PC.

Blizzard will be the death of the PC gamers if they don't come out with something worth being excited about.
 
You know whats funny? after a good 5 or 6 hours on twitch chatrooms asking this question "What happens when your internet goes down while playing singleplayer diablo 3?" Not ONE person could answer that question. Either they had no idea or just did not care or wish to know. Coincidence? Discuss!!
 
[citation][nom]Flameout[/nom]Without the amount of dumbing down Diablo 3 has received visually as well as technically, it makes Torchlight 2 seem more worth my money. Then there's the wait for Lineage Eternal which looks FANTASTIC[/citation]

Wow, I just looked up Lineage Eternal and you're completely right. It looks beyond fantastic.
 
[citation][nom]aoneone[/nom]You know whats funny? after a good 5 or 6 hours on twitch chatrooms asking this question "What happens when your internet goes down while playing singleplayer diablo 3?" Not ONE person could answer that question. Either they had no idea or just did not care or wish to know. Coincidence? Discuss!![/citation]

I think you lose all your progress before reaching Checkpoint. Unless you manually exit out of the game. One or the other.
 
I was not super excited about Diablo III like many others were. I wasn't sitting on the edge of my seat. But I did purchase the game on release day. I've tried to play it however have been quite upset about the Internet Only "feature". The connection problems have netted me 4-5 hours of game play so far.

I scored a stellar rare sword/item drop only to be disconnected 10 seconds later. Upon logging back in the item was gone. That dungeon did not drop that item again (it was obviously random). Last night I played for maybe an hour until I got D/C'd and could not reconnect all evening.

I ended up watching Shark Week on Netflix instead!! Considering Blizzard knew this game was going to be huge, their past history with WoW and it's massive online logins, I'm pretty disappointed at how unprepared they were for Diablo III to go live.

I even noticed that the Mayor in Tristram was duplicated. He was standing in two places and I could have them both on screen at once. Not a game breaking bug. But seriously how does that get overlooked? We're talking the first town in the game!!
 
[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]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 nowthe 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.
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.
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.
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.[/citation]
Please show your evidence where Vivendi told Kotick he had no say so over Blizzard?

The truth is you can not. Vivendi placed Blizzard as a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard. This means Acitivision Blizzard OWNS Blizzard. Bobby Kotick is the CEO of Activision Blizzard. Why would Vivendi make Kotick the boss of Activision Blizzard and place Blizzard under ActiBlizz and then tell Kotick he can't have ful control over the division they made him boss over? This imagining that Kotick has no say so over Blizzard is getting old. Go to your boss's boss and tell him or her they aren't your boss and see what they say.
 
You can't let Blizzard off easy on this one. First they pull a Ubisoft and require constant internet connection. This alone has screwed my friend/roommate over, as we live in an area of terrible speed and latency. Then they don't adequately prepare themselves for a flood of logins. After 12 years and a successful beta, you'd think Blizzard would anticipate this.
 
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