Just a quick clarification, this only occurs when I try to connect to the European region. I have all my progress there. But when I switched to Americas, the connection got established successfully without any errors.
This might mean that only European region is affected.
Also having this problem. Had previously had D3 from Amazon UK on disc years ago. Thought I would try “Play for Free” before deciding if I wanted to get expansions too.
Downloaded and installed okay. Authenticates okay. But times out at the retrieving characters part, eventually giving the 300016 error code. I’ll not buy anything if Battlenet/Blizzard will not do what it says it will do!
Thank you for your reports! I am seeing a constant trend of this happening with European connections and regions. Is anyone still experiencing issues?
If so, could you provide a WinMTR test? Run this test for 5 to 10 minutes until the error appears. Copy and paste the text file created and paste it between two ~~~ like so:
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WinMTR Here
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If you have issues pasting here, use Pastebin and post the end of the link. (ie. 123456 for pastebin.com/123456)