Give Blizzard a break. They’re a new company and this is their first game (like New World). Its not like they have had 20+ years to figure this out.
It’s because they decided to have us on a global server instead of having realms for different regions.
We mention “modern player behavior” because it’s an interesting point to think about. 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). 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. 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.
^^This is their excuse, which is BS because on Battle.net back then, Cow runs, Mephisto runs, Pindleskin runs… was all common knowledge.
This and the lack of actual chat channels, I REALLY doubt anyone at Vicarious Visions actually played Diablo 2 in it’s prime.
They need to bring back Realms instead of trying to do this "Global Server’’ BS.
Why do we need to be on the same server as Asia except to experience high queue times?