Starcraft 2 launch went fine iirc but they weren't begging people to basically DDoS them like they did with this thing.

They knew everyone was gonna wait up to play this shit.

Activision makes people more money, but they kill the quality of the gaming experience for the consumer.

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haha they just threw up the white flag an gave up

Activision killed call of duty now they are gonna kill blizzard.

Does anybody know of anybody who has actually been able to create a character and play the game?

no, haven't heard. I almost got to log in twice. It authenticated and that it said creating hero list and timed out.

I'm logged in, I just can't create a character.

i seen a few players on another forum that are in game waiting for others. lol Thats about it, everyone else is error 37

after 12 years you'd think companies would try to launch a game properly.

moar like Diablo 37 eheh get it

All of the popular fansites including mmo-champion and diablofans are down too after blizz took their forums offline.

:slowclap:

Just got in!

On the bright side, I'll bet WoW doesn't have tues maintenance. Every nerd working for activision will be busy with this mess.

wow has all those servers sitting there. blizzard needs to use some of them to fix this login mess.

lol record time

http://www.error37.com/

haha even the error37 site has already crashed argh blizzard

I'm so pissed that I'm still up right now

the sad part is you have to keep staying up. because you know if you do goto sleep thats when the servers will come back up. so we are forced to sit an wait like stupid lil herms

Well thank you for this adventure Blizzard. Now I am going to replicate the fun of Error 37 by lighting up the car cigarette lighter and sticking it on the top of my penis.

Hurts so damn good. Want in ****ers? It'll cost you $60 unless you want the collectors edition which will include a SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION USB STICK molded after your blistering penis.

not sure whats worse. error37 or having herm as the coach for 3 years

i'm in

Made it to level 4 before the servers crapped out again.

Well my buddy picked it up at midnight for me and I'm just now starting the download, hopefully it will be ready by morning. I need a good Wizard name. Hope i can dream one up by then.

GANDALF!

Me and 90 million other people. LMAO


And my wizard shall be a chick.

Made a Witch Doctor. But my CPU overheated and shut off. Later when i get back on, im going to have to run some air cleaner into it. Its been a long while since i done that.

Im a level 18 barb, it feels like I have been really cruising through normal.

sofa can be harry potter haha

Let's get this into the OP please.

Hometeam is already lvl 18 and kicking ass.



I got up to about lvl 9. Now i have to go to work so I won't be on until my noon hour.

Hairy Pooter maybe. LMAO

I've got 3 guest passes with this game. They basically let you play up to the end of the beta content if anyone wants to try. You'll have to pm me, and I'm still waiting for a couple responses from a couple buddies of mine so if i don't get back to you they might have claimed them.

So looking forward to busting it out tonight. Have my key ready to roll.

One of the few who didn't take off work. Although I'm okay with that. Don't feel like I'm missing anything right this instant anyways. I'm working. I'm sure every body else has got to be sleeping right about now.

Just hit level 50!

Is that possible at this point? Seriously that's nuts if true.

Yeah.. There's all kinds of 50's out there already. Some of the asians are already halfway through inferno.

Check this site out. No spoilers.

http://www.dafk.net/what/

No, I'm lying out my ass. I haven't even gotten the game yet....

But it wouldn't surprise me if somebody was...

LMAO

That last post of mine was pretty much the main "trolling effort" on d3's forums. A bunch of bastard trolls said the Asians were already halfway done with inferno on the first day, and people FREAKED the **** out.

It was awesome.

bastard!

I'm reading that the preferred difficulty is Nightmare. Normal was a breeze in the beta. Anyone playing on Nightmare? If so, what do you think?

Not in nightmare after THE FIRST MORNING LMAO




So what did everyone choose as their character?

Say what?

I'm not in nightmare yet. No after only the first morning, in which i didn't play enough.

I played from 2am until 7 on first run

If i missed anyone's name please quote them so i can get it in OP.

thanks

You missed this one. otherwise I think you're caught up.

I don't think Blizzard will let me have that one. I'll give it a shot though.

LMAO

No ladder in D3? Is there going to be one eventually or did they just trash that too?

The only reason they did the ladder in D2 was because they needed to reset the market.

The Auction house and the gold sinks has replaced the need for ladders.

Laz probably has me on ignore, so you may need to quote me.

UncleJesse#1253

Bastard! :cuss:

Substitute "Ab ripper Ex" for "Getting Rick Rolled"
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Well played sir.

Not sure how an auction house changes anything. All it offers is a more efficient way of trading items instead of sitting in a chat reading trade messages.

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I don't see the fun in it in trying to burn through it asap

Someone has finished Diablo 3 already
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...ablo-3-already

Probably about as fun as playing the 1 character that isn't new.

FYI - Probably will be on sometime this evening after 8.

Hit me up people.

suds79#1718

Just finished up Act 1 as Demon Hunter, really enjoying the game so far. Definitely a lot of room to play around with how the different abilities synergize.

Hometeam is hauling some major ass through this game. Holy shit. LMAO













what i typed was their reason for not needing ladders anymore. And it's not about ease of trading, it's whats out there to trade. After awhile there were a billion duped items that absolutely flooded the market and ruined the whole economy. In no realm did they imagine you could get 40 high runes for something. It wasn't intended. Their fix for the mass dupes was a ladder system that cleared the saturated market.

No more dupes = no more need for a ladder to reset the market.

Boo been down a while now.

I was hoping I'd gain a small amount of ground on you over noon... turns out you gained 5 more ****ing levels on me. :facepalm:

This is a post from diablo3.com in the forum. It came from one of the big dogs.

Maybe while testing content, you could test and fix errors too in a BETA. Just a thought I'll let it soak in for blizzard. I got on for a little bit last night 3am -5am and just have to kill the last boss in Act 1. But I try to get on this morning and good lord another slew of errors and emergency maintenance. Good times.

I managed to play from 9 until 1, then took a break and just as i sat down at the computer it logged me out.....can't get back on! GR(*#U(R!(#*@(#*(@!~!!!

LMAO


There's millions and millions more players playing this than there were in the beta (you do know they had a beta, right?), not to mention those players have access to the entire game now instead of just a small portion.

To expect them to have everything running perfect is a stretch. I agree it sucks for some people (i haven't had a problem yet) but they aren't nearly as bad as the opening day of Open Beta.

Sweet now i'm getting error 75, i guess that's an improvement.

OK. New topic. What classes did you guys roll out with?

I went with a Wizard. She's dominating right now. Most things are 1 shot.

Wizard in act 2, kinda rough and not one shotting everything. Act 1 was easy, Act 2 i get surrounded way too much.

I'm level 18 and wearing 6 rare items.

Try running. Amazing how good of a strategy moving around a little is.

I've got a demon hunter. Level 8 I think. I want to try out a few of the other classes before I really commit, though.

Oh i run plenty, fortunately i played from lvl 1 with a monk until our break...which is a breakup thanks to the servers crapping out.

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The thing that ticks me off the most is that they force you to sign in, the fact that you can't even enjoy a single player game anymore is ridiculous. I don't mind logging in for multiplayer and pvp, but Blizzard doesn't care. People say they hate EA/Activision, I can deal with them, Blizzard is the company I hate the most about this crap.

It happened in Vanilla WoW and it continues to this day. I understand that there are TONS of fans trying to play the game right now, but not getting your product ready for a game you knew was going to be one of the top selling games of all time right off the bat, just shows a cheap manner from a company that still gets $15 a month from 10 million people.

This is kind of why I left WoW, when the team changed after BC going into WotLK, you could tell the obvious decline in everything. Are you telling me you can't hire on better people? That we as fans just have to deal with your shortcomings and say "Oh well... they're Blizzard."? The thing that sucks is they can, and we do.

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I went with Wizard as well. I'm not 1 shotting things by any means, I did when I was Lvl 3 but now that I'm lvl 8 it takes a few arcane orbs and some other stuff to take down the fatties and alot of kiting for the bosses. Maybe you guys have something figured out that I'm just blindly overlooking.

Nah it was never that easy for me either, however i just found a rare item with 30 intelligence on it before taking my break. So hopefully i can start one shotting things after work tonight.

Nah, you're just a lower lvl right now. Give it some time and find a nice weapon and you'll do the same. Also helps when you can start using more runes.

Oh and someone let laz know our battle tags whenever he logs on...again mine is Slayfarer1450

Isn't this to protect themselves from hackers? isn't that how they get around that?

Correct me if I'm wrong but if anybody we should be mad at, it's the hackers for making this standard practice.

Ruining it for everybody.

I have a partner on LAN with me, so I have some help as I speed through this thing. Niether of us played the beta so we are just winging it.

I believe they avoided single player because they wanted to eliminate dupes. Most dupes came from single player and were adapted to online.

pirates an hackers is just the easy excuse companys use. easier to blame others then admit it was there failures that allowed these things in the first place

sofa what level are you? i am 25 i should been higher but i screwed around and rushed maly for a while. i been doing all my really leveling solo which prolly slowing me down alot .

probably getting error 317002 like the rest of us. Blizzard uses Hackers as a convenient excuse just like the gaming industry told us digital copies would be cheaper.