Adding more servers wont fix the problem ?
Then why not add more shards? Go back to the original region based play and add more regions with population numbers to breakup the nonsense?
Farming IS a part of the game. It has been for 20 years. Failure to scale the Database to handle the Global level is an issue. Game creation and player load create a lot of data, I get that. But using 20+ year old code designed for small regions is not a great move.
It does not, obviously, scale well to modern gaming. It SHOULD though. They have 20 years of data on how people play D2. They may be a bit surprised at popularity, but they should have expected a modern gaming audience.
Not preparing the Global DB to handle a worldwide save/progress across platforms with the game creation we do was just plain short sighted. I feel like the engineers HAD to know, but maybe someone would not let them redo the code.
Now they have to do it after game went live which means a lot more challenges.
It sucks, but at least the queue keeps the game up. There should not NEED to be a queue though if the DB issue was handled before release.
This is not the player’s fault!
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remind me why it’s the players problem and burden that Activision organized their servers in this way. “20 years old” game is no excuse, because the original server organization was not global and certainly not this garbage.
Just seems that all those Alpha testings, Beta testings were there just marketing gimmicks, to hype us up. Practically those tests were somehow… redundant.
Last i checked it was how the Classic coding handled flooding + other unforseen issues we prob dont even know about
You got funny stories, Asia has higher Que (600-1000) compared to 200+ in US. What does that tell you?
Doesn’t change the greed of Bobby Kotick. You’re all pawns, including you. “MVP” = FREE LABOR.
Everyone who argues, tries to say that line which is extremely foolish
How the hell can a game that hasn’t even been around for 3 months in the public use, been being farmed for 20 years?
That is your opinion…not fact. Blizzard doesn’t owe any of you anything, nor did they ever say D2R was going to be able to be played like the original and or to make D2R play the way you all want it to. Players are the ones who decided to force that expectation into this so that’s your own fault for even thinking that to begin with…not Blizzard
Oh yes it is. how are you people failing to get BLIZZARD OUTRIGHT SAID THEY ARE PUTTING QUEUES IN PLACE BECAUSE the servers aren’t stable enough people were farming. Blizzard even said the queues were in place.
The servers ARE STABLE, you players are causing them not to be by doing something Blizzard clearly does not want done. You cannot cause the servers to not be stable by doing something then trying to blame the servers.
If people weren’t farming there would be no queues because the servers can handle the game just fine, it’s what you players are doing that’s causing them to be unstable. The server not being up to YOUR STANDARDS or what YOU BELIEVE is irrelevant to people are farming and Blizzard said not to.
They not only said NOT TO FARM in several announcements, but they also put roadblocks in place to slow the farming down. Which is also saying do not farm this game.
You trying to gaslight things doesn’t change those facts.