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by **Benderbrau** » Mon May 14, 2012 2:46 pm

Rockman wrote:
Blizzard has never failed to deliver.

Bioware gave us DragonAge II which I've heard a lot of bad things about.

That's not saying much considering that for more then a decade the only thing Blizzard has produced is Starcraft, World of Warcraft, a remake of Starcraft and World of Warcraft additions.

by **Benderbrau** » Tue May 15, 2012 3:43 pm

Well it's release day and so far users on Amazon are ripping it to shreds. 92 reviews and 53 of them, no wait now 54 of them are one star. People are pissed that Blizzard is requiring internet connection to play single player mode. Can't say I blame them. What a stupid decision. What's worse is that apparently a lot of users (like Hab) can't access the servers because they're over taxed. WTF Blizzard? You had ten years to prepare for this day and had all the pre-order numbers and still somehow you dropped the ball.

by **habitual** » Tue May 15, 2012 4:02 pm

Benderbrau wrote:That's not saying much considering that for more then a decade the only thing Blizzard has produced is Starcraft, World of Warcraft, a remake of Starcraft and World of Warcraft additions.

Yeah, but, at the same time all of those games were juggernauts.

It's not like they're Bethesda, I would've waited at least two more weeks to buy one of their games.

Hab

by **Benderbrau** » Tue May 15, 2012 4:09 pm

habitual wrote:
Yeah, but, at the same time all of those games were juggernauts.

It's not like they're Bethesda, I would've waited at least two more weeks to buy one of their games.

Hab

"all of those games"? You mean all two of them? A quantity of 2 isn't even enough to make an average out of.

by **Benderbrau** » Tue May 15, 2012 7:03 pm

Benderbrau wrote:Well it's release day and so far users on Amazon are ripping it to shreds. 92 reviews and 53 of them, no wait now 54 of them are one star. People are pissed that Blizzard is requiring internet connection to play single player mode. Can't say I blame them. What a stupid decision. What's worse is that apparently a lot of users (like Hab) can't access the servers because they're over taxed. WTF Blizzard? You had ten years to prepare for this day and had all the pre-order numbers and still somehow you dropped the ball.

Wait did I say 53 one star reviews? I meant 207. :shock:

by **Miracloman** » Wed May 16, 2012 2:05 am

Benderbrau wrote:Wait did I say 53 one star reviews? I meant 207.

"Hello my friend.Want to know how pissed I am at Blizzard over Diablo III? Stay awhile and listen..."

by **Benderbrau** » Wed May 16, 2012 10:17 am

Miracloman wrote:
"Hello my friend.Want to know how pissed I am at Blizzard over Diablo III? Stay awhile and listen..."

"Still in all, every night we does the tell, so that we 'member who we was and where we played... but most of all we 'members the game that angered us"

/Diablodome'd

by **Rockman** » Wed May 16, 2012 11:17 am

These things happen, it's awful that the battlenet would be down on the launch day, but Blizzard historically compensates people who have been inconvienenced with some kind of in game perk.

by **Benderbrau** » Wed May 16, 2012 11:21 am

Rockman wrote:These things happen, it's awful that the battlenet would be down on the launch day, but Blizzard historically compensates people who have been inconvienenced with some kind of in game perk.

These things happen? How many other games were in development for 12 years and included beta tests in which everyone reported server problems? That's right, Blizzard had 12 years, all the preorder numbers to know how many users to expect and beta tests showing that the servers weren't strong enough and they still fucked it up.

They told the beta testers not to worry about the server issues because part of beta testing included "stressing the servers". Well Blizzard you certainly stressed them all right.

by **Rockman** » Wed May 16, 2012 11:49 am

how many were sold above pre-orders?

This isn't a normal Blizzard thing, they've successfully launched a huge MMO, and 3 expansions without much issue, plus SC II. Obviously the issue wasn't intentional, but I'd hardly say they were incompetent about the whole thing, history shows us otherwise. I imagine that people who pre-ordered the game will be offered some kind of download for their trouble or something.