To ease strain on the game's servers, Blizzard will be creating a login queue. Though we did foresee this-with players making fresh characters on fresh servers, working hard to get their magic-finding items-we vastly underestimated the scope we derived from beta testing." "Today, however, a new player can look up any number of amazing content creators who can teach them how to play the game in different ways, many of them including lots of database load in the form of creating, loading, and destroying games in quick succession. "In 2001, there wasn't nearly as much content on the internet around how to play Diablo II "correctly" (Baal runs for XP, Pindleskin/Ancient Sewers/etc for magic find, etc)," Blizzard writes. Now Playing: Diablo II: Resurrected Video ReviewĪs for why Blizzard's servers seem completely unable to meet player-demand, that has to do with legacy code used in the original Diablo II which is still present in Diablo II: Resurrected, and the fact that modern players are very rapidly creating game lobbies, then abandoning them, and then creating new ones.
A switch between global databases caused yet another server outage on October 11, followed by another spike in player traffic on October 12 that caused more issues.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's Server traffic increased the following day, causing another outage. Blizzard says the spike in traffic on October 9 was bigger than that of the game's launch, and that when combined with an update rolled out for the game just a day before, caused Diablo II: Resurrected's global database to time out. As highlighted last weekend, large spikes in player numbers, and the amount of in-game lobbies they were creating, caused a global server outage. In a new post on the official forums, Blizzard explains what exactly is going on with Diablo II: Resurrected's recurring server issues, and what the team is doing to fix it-including login queues and a limit on rapidly creating and joining games. Server issues and locked characters were common in the days following the launch, but server outages and authentication issues have persisted since then. Diablo II: Resurrected released weeks ago, and it didn't exactly go as planned.
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