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[habitual]

So I take the day off, head down to Jamba at 9:30 then walk over to Gamestop and pick up Diablo 3. Get home take the 15 minutes to install it crack open my Mt. Dew and login into Battlenet and WTF YOUR NOT AVAILABLE TRY LATER????

FUCK YOU BATTLENET, FUCK YOU IN THE EYE!

Hab

[Benderbrau]

Perhaps you should lay off the Mountain Dew for a while.

[habitual]

I was so looking forward to just wasting the day away playing this out on my back porch.

Fortunately it's just a server patch and should be finished in around an hour.

Hab

[Benderbrau]

I was so looking forward to just wasting the day away playing this out on my back porch.

Fortunately it's just a server patch and should be finished in around an hour.

Hab

Do you have to have Battlenet working to play single player? Diablo 2 didn't require it. Hell I think I owned D2 for like a year before I even set up a Battlenet account.

[PDH]

Do you have to have Battlenet working to play single player? Diablo 2 didn't require it. Hell I think I owned D2 for like a year before I even set up a Battlenet account.

Not got it yet but I've heard you have to be on the internet constantly to play, so I assume so. It's becoming the norm with games these days.

[habitual]

I think you have to be logged into Battlenet to play, even in single player.

That's what really upset me, the first experience I have with this "new feature" is not being able to play.

Well done Blizzard.

Hab

[Benderbrau]

Not got it yet but I've heard you have to be on the internet constantly to play, so I assume so. It's becoming the norm with games these days.

If that's the case then it just lost a customer. What if you're on a road trip or something and don't have access to the internet? That's just fucking stupid.

[sdsichero]

That's what you get when you play with the devil.

[bkthomson]

Perhaps you should lay off the Mountain Dew for a while.

I hate to agree with Bender, but yeah lay off the Dew.

[habitual]

I need one of those urge to kill memes.

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/diablo-iii-errors-mar-game-massive-release-161725489.html

It's been 12 years since Blizzard last released an installment of its popular Diablo franchise, but judging by the enormous demand that today's release of Diablo III is seeing, it might as well have been yesterday.
The game unlocked at midnight Tuesday. Despite the late hour, however, players quickly overwhelmed the game's servers, extending the pain of people who have been waiting to wear out their index fingers on the clickfest.
Diablo III launched in multiple territories, which caused the Battle.net servers (required to authenticate the game before owners can play it) to buckle. That resulted in a dreaded "Error 37" message, forcing players to log in again, a stalling tactic to make the queue more orderly.
"Please note that due to a high volume of traffic, login and character creation may be slower than normal," said a message posted to the Battle.net forums. "If you're unable to login to the game or create characters, please wait and try again. We've temporarily taken our Battle.net websites offline and launched more servers to accommodate for the traffic. We hope to resolve these issues as soon as possible and appreciate your patience."
[Related: Five things to know about Diablo III]
Players, not too surprisingly, were pretty vocal in their frustration. "Error 37" quickly became a top trending topic on Twitter.
The server crunch is a familiar event for players of hotly anticipated massively multiplayer games. Blizzard's World of Warcraft had similar problems when it launched, as too many people tried to play at once. The problems usually resolve themselves within a day or two as the obsession over the new game fades a bit.
And given the demand for Diablo III, Blizzard actually warned people in advance this problem might occur. Pre-orders for the game set a new record for the company, coming in at 2 million.
Development on the game started in 2001, but the company was never happy with what it saw. Diablo III actually went through three quiet revisions, but it wasn't until June of 2008 that Blizzard officially confirmed the game was in development. Players had to wait another three years before the public beta opened up.

Hab

[Dragavon]

It is irritating as hell that a game that I bought and paid for, I am unable to play.

[Benderbrau]

It is irritating as hell that a game that I bought and paid for, I am unable to play.

And consider this: because it requires their servers to play it in any form you didn't pay for it, you just rented it from them. I'll bet that's the most you've ever paid for a rental.

[Dragavon]

And consider this: because it requires their servers to play it in any form you didn't pay for it, you just rented it from them. I'll bet that's the most you've ever paid for a rental.

Yes. Unfortunately since I rented it and now can't return it, I'll have to continue on.

But I'm never buying (or renting) a new game from Blizzard ever again.

[pat]

When I have been able to login, its been really fun though. Unfortunately, I have not had much luck logging in, and its all screwy again.

[S.F. Jude Terror]

Is it that you have to be logged, or just once to authenticate?