Hello,
I kindly request your attention for these issues. They’re proper bugs, it’s not whining about “I’m not getting Ancient Legendaries”.
(1) I have recently reinstalled the game and I noticed it’s more “crashy” than usual, even for a recently installed game. I know that new software usually does take up more time to load, but my first two attempts at loading the game took almost half an hour each (no kidding - I went to have a snack and came back to find the game still loading), and the game simply hard crashed in the first attempt. In the second attempt, it finally “gave up” and had a “normal” crash (our old friend Error 1016).
In each of the following two or three attempts, the game took something like 10 minutes to load until it finally crashed (“Error 1016” again).
My computer is a pretty good one, and when I played the game before, it never took THAT long to load. Also, I do remember that Error 1016 was a frequent occurrence, but this time, it seems more related to the extremely long loading time than to “normal” issues. It’s also quite annoying that, while the game loads, it doesn’t allow me to do anything else with the computer.
(2) Another annoying thing I noticed, though not necessarily related, is how the game “captures” the screen completely while loading a proper game. When I alt+tab during the load screen, the game prevents the computer from switching tabs and justs pops up a new tip. It’s actually funny - you can scroll through dozens of different tips by just alt+tabbing.
I’m actually fine with long loading times. But I am NOT fine with a game that not only takes that long to load AND effectively locks the computer off. It’s not a proper crash, because the OS still works as usual - for instance: if there is music playing, it keeps on playing and I can still command it to pause, continue playing or switch tracks using my multimedia keyboard. D3 simply “captures” the screen while it loads a game. I’m pretty sure this is unintended, so I’m considering it a bug and reporting it as such.
In the end, I finally managed to play the game, but it took a grand total of some 5 to 6 failed attempts, and I can sort of ignore the “screen capture” because the game is no longer taking 10 minutes to crash (woops, I mean, to load).
Not sure about you, but I think that a game that takes that several, complicated attempts to load for the first time is not exactly conducive to getting old players excited to playing again (my case), much less to getting new players happy with the game.