Why are the queue times so high? Nowadays with systems, they should be virtual. Expand memory or add CPUs on the fly to combat high usage.
I’m afraid of the queue times tonight when people get off work or out of school. Will we be looking at 3-5 hour queue times?
They are likely throttling logins due to the amount of ppl trying to play. One of the most anticipated games of the year, over 3 platforms, best bet there are hundreds of thousands if not more ppl trying to play at the same time. I was able to get in right at 12:01 PM with no queue when it first launched, but quickly got knocked offline - am assuming the login servers crashed because of the volume, and now they are throttling until they fix that / bring up more resources.
Honestly, they knew how many paid to play, and they knew the resources it was going to take, until this afternoon I never heard them or anyone says to expect queue times that were hours. I don’t really have a dog in the hunt here, if it’s up when I want to play that’s cool, if not I’ll just wait for the release, but it does seem like bad management/planning / etc… I assume the “Pay to play” thing they are doing gives them or the people with the $$ the capital to do things like buy a ton of server resources to host it ( I have no idea how they are setup) but to know they have 100 people paying to get in early and look but you only have space for 3 at a time (Numbers scaled down) and wait to mention that to ANYONE until the day of the soft launch seems… strange.
Because they’re a small indie development company and were completely surprised that people wanted to play the event they bought. It’s because they know most people won’t do anything and your complaints dont cost them money. Make sure to refund to let them know this isn’t acceptable.
https://us.battle.net/support/en/help/product/diablo4/2090/2091/solution
I got right in at about 10:03 AM CST then disconnected, was able to get back in a few minutes, got through the first dungeon killed the boss, disconnected, after that it has been queue, disconnect, Queue Disconnect, for about 2 hours, then I finally got back in, just in to find my progress and loot gone. Went through to the boss in the dungeon, got tossed mid fight, then 70 minute queue. I have played maybe 10 minutes so far.
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Wonder if people would have been more or less frustrated if they delayed the entire thing a weekend/week/etc, whatever it took to get the correct hardware in place to support whatever number they presold.
ive spent 3 damn hours waitin in a que today while off doin stuff irl each time i got down it crashed me and tossed me back into a 90 minite que this beta is bs and of course im not s streamer so it seems they got that priorty que so it seems lol