I tried playing on the PTR today. I copied my characters as described in the preview patch notes. My characters were out of date but when I tried joining a private game the game would hang at the loading screen. I ended up deleting all my characters in hopes of a new import would solve the problem. Everytime I try to import i get error code 359017. I am able to create new characters but they all hang when loading into a game. I am running on a MacBook Pro.
In addition, you can only copy characters over to your PTR account once every 24 hours. Attempting to copy characters before this cooldown is up will result in an error.
Ref : PTR 2.6.10 has ended! - Diablo III
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