Diablo 3 Launch Topic
- Thread starter Roman
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Haha, in all fairness this was quite a major launch, there had to of been atleast like 600k people trying to log into the server at exactly the same time - and the load probably fucked them up, they've been declining in subs lately so one can assume they just weren't ready. Things seem to be smoother now, I didn't mind the small forced break from diablo because I would of probably no lifed it the entire day without it.
Bottiger
Administrator
There's really no excuse for Blizzard. It doesn't matter if there are 600k people trying to log in.
I doubt the number is larger than WoW that have users in the tens of millions. They have the infrastructure to bring up more servers to distribute the load in an instance or use EC2. Not to mention there was a beta and open release weekend.
I doubt the number is larger than WoW that have users in the tens of millions. They have the infrastructure to bring up more servers to distribute the load in an instance or use EC2. Not to mention there was a beta and open release weekend.
Eh, they attempted to do something somewhat different rather than a worldwide release at the same time, they released it in Europe earlier than the US, and Asia I believe as well - it just didn't work...the release wasn't as catastrophic as Cataclysm (HAHA GET IT) was. There was about 30 minutes when it first released I couldn't get in, then the servers were fine until the emergency maintenance.
Bottiger
Administrator
We're talking about the richest and oldest online gaming company with over a decade of experience releasing large online games.
It doesn't matter if they should have gone with a rolling release, and it is even worse that they couldn't handle the load like that. This release was utter garbage. There is no queuing system, so everyone is spending hours logging in repeatedly making the load worse. There's no reason they can't scale out everything else. The main reason for all this outage is incompetence or greediness trying to go with the minimum amount of servers they possibly can.
I remember other large releases like Guildwars having less than 1 hour downtime on launch day.
It doesn't matter if they should have gone with a rolling release, and it is even worse that they couldn't handle the load like that. This release was utter garbage. There is no queuing system, so everyone is spending hours logging in repeatedly making the load worse. There's no reason they can't scale out everything else. The main reason for all this outage is incompetence or greediness trying to go with the minimum amount of servers they possibly can.
I remember other large releases like Guildwars having less than 1 hour downtime on launch day.
Eh you're probably right - I was merely saying that this has been their best launch yet...it was quite a steady improvement I couldn't log into cataclysm for a good 2-3 hours after it came out, and even when I could it was constant disconnects and crashes. I can't say I'm unhappy with this release tho, it was definitely a little "sputtery" for want of a better term...but all things considered, I didn't mind the emergency maintenance, it was a pain in the ass trying to make a character for 30 minutes tho at 3:00 EST.
They still have queues in WoW for servers that are marked "Full". People hate it. I don't think it's greed, my thinking from a business sense, why provision that much hardware and bandwidth for a few hours RIGHT when the game launches. Obviously they already have additional capacity for the launch. Idealistically they would build a whole new datacenter for the D3 launch, and they probably almost did in some respects. My friend has been on since 3am and he's experienced a grand total of one error message. I think the launch went fine. I think way more people tried to login to D3 than GuildWars, so I don't think that's a totally fair comparison either.
Bottiger
Administrator
It is greed. The servers have essentially been down since release for the vast majority of players.
How do I know? Because I spent an hour trying to log in after release, and when I woke up today, there were still tons of people still complaining about error 37 on the forums.
And also you are underestimating Guildwars.
Don't know what to tell you. I've had a few people here have essentially no login problems. Maybe the East Coast datacenters are better equipped. Again, I don't think it's greed since I don't think it's intentional. They did stress testing, but obviously that was just a subset of the users that would try to login on launch day. They make a guess on how much more infrastructure they need, and that's it. With so many trying to login all over the place, any type of hardware failure could cause massive problems, also bugs in networking code could possibly be surfacing. If I remember correctly they had to do a patch the day D2 came out as well. No ones perfect.
AfireAzuaki
Epic Skial Regular
Ironcally, Sunday, I went to Best Buy and saw the same poster, although it said it was being sold at midnight.
Sinnx
Wicked Nasty Engineer
personal preference really:
If you want to be up close and in your face:
Barbarian(takes alot damage, lowdps endgame)
Monk(dodge tank)
Ranged
Wizard (crowd control, AOE dps)
Demon Hunter ( survivability skills, strong dps)
Witch doctor ( summons, curses, good crowd control)
If you want to be up close and in your face:
Barbarian(takes alot damage, lowdps endgame)
Monk(dodge tank)
Ranged
Wizard (crowd control, AOE dps)
Demon Hunter ( survivability skills, strong dps)
Witch doctor ( summons, curses, good crowd control)