Are you serious? Unfair feedback? WTF planet are you living on? THIS GUY IS REALLY DEFENDING BLIZZARD!?!?!
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Thanks for actually understanding most of what I meant by this post!
I didn’t create this post to get nailed to a cross for opposing views because to be quote honest, I agree with most of what you guys are saying, the launch has been shoddy, they probably could’ve done more to prepare the overloading of the servers due to volume/ lobby creation. The point I have been making is that there are so many guys on here (even on this post) who are just getting sweaty af over everything. Most of you guys probably only came on this site to rant and vent, hence why I haven’t replied to most of you because no matter how much I try to reason, it’ll just get brushed off from blinding anger.
I think a big part of the problem is that people are angry but they’re not too sure who exactly to be angry at. They just pick out the most obvious choice which is the devs.
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You can tell nobody making D2R was a hardcore D2 player. Pindleskin, and Tresh Socket had their TC nerfed in 1.10 October 2003. For the 18 years following People were and still do Pindle runs. Even in the early years following 1.10 Pindle was a huge MF/Bot spot.
Oh BLIZZARD people started sock puppet.
Please increase server capacity otherwise you’ll be a true scammer.
Well you see the thing is people were already upset for missing features from both the console and PC versions of the game.
Then these server issues started popping up and getting worse.
So on the PC end they removed open battle.net and TCP/IP games which were promised from the very beginning. Then they also changed how their lobbies worked from what I understand on the PC end of things.
Now on the console end they removed Open battle.net, TCP/IP games, in game chat, mouse and keyboard support, /playersX on single player and custom lobbies. All things that can and have worked in various past console games.
So now you take all the above problems that I listed and a lot of problems I even left out and now you mix it not being able to play the game you spent money on into the mix and you get very fair feedback.
I feel like a lot of people are being to nice in this situation. $40, doesn’t break the bank, but when you spend $40 and get nothing but with a Diablo 2 label that hurts.
Many people hold this particular game near and dear to their hearts because of how great the game is and the time of their lives when then got to play it originally.
I hope for everyone’s sake(including the devs) they are able to fix these issues so we can get back to doing what we do best. Complaining about all the missing features they ripped from the game.
What I want you to do is go back and read your own comment very slowly and maybe you’ll understand the problem.
“servers are full” = they don’t have enough servers.
This is highly predictable situation when all sales are digital, mate.
They knew full well how many copies were sold and acquired only enough servers to support the minimum login - not the max, like they should have.
It’s not just server issues anyway.
I play offline and logged in to see all the runes and a set piece I found yesterday gone.
And Blizzard still hasn’t made a peep about the issue.
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Bottom line is money - they have learned that the other mega corps (Sony and Microsoft) will not issues refunds either since they want their money but due to the “linked” nature of a PSN or Xbox live account, if you charge back with your bank they lock out your ENTIRE account.
Pc players can freely make accounts, do not have a sub fee and are more likely to process charge backs due to the above and also have many many many more gaming options available.
It’s money pure and simple, I know I will not be playing D4 initially due to this now and wait for at least the first round of discounts to play - assuming the game even survives that long and isn’t D3 launch: Repeated
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Unfair feedback? Are you on crack? This game came out a month ago and is unplayable 50% of the day on consoles. Would you call that fair to the consumer? The execs at blizz can’t harass the poor women in the office anymore so now they need to take it out on us. So unfortunate.
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Stopped reading at ‘‘few server issues’’. Everyday the servers are down half the day then when they finally work i wait in queue 1-2h play 20 min crash to desktop then go back to the end of that stupid queue. As far as i know people on console have it even worst.
There’s no unfair feedback. What’s unfair is buying a broken product for 60$. I don’t care if it’s ‘‘temporary’’ it’s been a month now this isn’t a BETA we all paid for this.
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Exactly, I couldn’t agree more. We are not 14 anymore and expect something in return for our money. Software companies (because this problem extends beyond games) should be expected to deliver a working product.
I magine d2r would have released “only” for Christmas but with a complete feature set for consoles and with half the bugs and server issues. Certainly preferable.
That is not even counting the weak information flow about the problems and countermeasures going on…
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While I agree with everything you’ve said Rtimm1-1996 I believe everything they ripped from the game is the real core issue here. For console; not having custom games completely obliterates the value of this game. There is exactly zero reason to level, MF, progress in any way, or even log into the servers if you can’t play specific game modes with others. While I would say their quick join modes have a slight potential, they certainly aren’t functional. They don’t even work you can’t play with anyone and even if you could… they need stats: player counts, games available to YOU ie not restricted by clvl, classes in game, etc. before they could even be considered functional, let alone preferable. As it stands there’s really no reason to log in now aside from holding a slight hope they’ll fix this.
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Beautifully spoken! I played pc version way back and now to have it on switch is an absolute delight. Server issues aside it’s a masterpiece. I haven’t had a que longer than 28 which also is nice about the switch version.
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Yes they have. A very long comment in special blue text.
Oh you have not seen the outrage over a que system. People are posting fake que wait times and fake que positions to exagerate the issue.
Like ramping up those numbers will make the programmers speed up on the patch they are 100% working on to fix rollbacks and connectivity issues.
I post my que # and started a stopwatch just to post a factual time. Then then thread of near constant complaining died.
There are hijinx going on in these forums.
Could you point me to that comment from Blizzard talking about the offline issues?
Just saw this one sec.
The comment is pinned at the top of general discussion.
I forgot where it’s pinned my bad. Hard to find but go to the general section for all of D2R and you will see a bunch of Official stuff pinned at the top.
Cool. There is so much in this that answers 80% of the stuff people are complaining about. They’d be happy if they saw this pinned to the console section too.
That post mentions nothing about the problems playing offline, namely, losing character progression and items in the shared stash.
Please read the whole thing carefully. It’s there.
I don’t know what wacky stuff I have to do to grab quotes out of that massive post. I could figure it out.
My average queue time is 30 minutes. I get the lottery winner times of less than 10 minutes, and twice I’ve been 45 minutes to an hour, but most of the time it is 30ish minutes. I’m still not pleased about it, but at least the service is stable once I get in. They have bought themselves some more time to fix it properly, hopefully they don’t squander it.