Oh wow it happened to me a second time in a row!
I don’t understand why the game disconnects me offline. Once you verify your ownership by logging in, why can you get disconnected? You should be able to still play as a single player.
Same here. The q is getting longer too. At the beggining I was not able to login on character and then even in the game itself.
It’s maintenance until 2:30
YUP things suck for the moment, might want to get up off the computer chair and go clean the house for an hour
yeah… they could at least boot you before putting you in a fake queue. the wasting time makes for a really extra annoying experience. Blizzard, just tell us as soon as we boot up the game. Give us a message on what’s going on or something. Error codes are so damn annoying, total PTSD from diablo 3.
Basically every authentication server works mostly the same - initial login it takes requests from mob of users trying to login to match credentials.
Then once logged in, to answer your question why you can get disconnected after initial verifying ownership, is b/c throughout your play session X number of periodic authentication re-checks will be made.
No idea when/where D4 does this but far as I know, no modern game simply authenticates once then never again. Some games, like Elder Scrolls Online, the authentication re-check is every time you zone to new map. So if you are logged in fine but know there is long queue, like new expansion launch day, ppl generally know to stay in zone b/c every time you switch is lotto chance you may get DC’d since it rechecks authentication each time entering new zone.
For D4, like I said no idea when, where, what triggers reauthentication but clearly if servers are swamped, then you may login fine but can get kicked when re-authentication attempt is made and times out due to the swamped authentication server(s).
its 4 where i am lol and its still F’D
FYI but they just put up the maintenance msg re: 1:30 - 2:30 pm PST maintenance on the launcher login screen.
GG bliz, start maint, kick ppl and re-kick but not put up the msg until half hour into the maint. /slow golf clap…
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Im already in my 6th try to log in while I do house chores, always the same, over 6 minutes of wait just to get the error message and no info from Blizzard. I dont even know if I syill have mi characters since the previous ga game it kicked me out and then only allowed me to start a new game and no cgaracters apoeared
dont bother re-trying until ~2:30pm pst, about ~25min from now.
read msg ^^ re: maintenance they announced half hour into the maint
Oh great, so with maintenance until 2:30 PST that means no chance of logging in until at least a half hour after that due to login server clogs.
Which time zone? Im in gmt +1, same hour for me?
Whatever your time zone is, the expected end of maint is ~20 min from now (2:30 pm pst)
Don’t blame the messenger, e.g. me, if logins still swamped then. Just repeating what the msg says.
Thanks for the info, its 23.15 for me, thats why I asked XD
P.s.s. They are also presumably pushing the new hotfix 6 & 7 bundles w/ this maintenance.
I say presumably b/c surely not even bliz would do this hour maint then do another later in same day for the posted hotfixes.
It would be good that some message with this kind of info was shown in the game, most console users ure surely just being kicked out without knowing why
The good - there is a msg shown, pretty easy to spot, during opening of launcher at login screen
The bad - they posted this msg half hour into the 1hr maint, so as you said, ppl were kicked, error coded, and prob didn’t know why. Then frustrated even more as relog attempts just put you into queue, wait during queue, then booted again at end of queue.
Another caveat is the login prompt showing this msg far as I know, could be wrong, does not show if you checked the remember me option. I like to retype password each time so always see whatever msg is on login prompt but I assume there are some users set to auto login and there was not a msg, so far, inside the actual launch client (which in fairness they sometimes do put status msg there as well but apparently not for this current maint)
and we keep falling for it every time.
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I fell for it b/c it’s ~15min after end of maintenance hour and still 3min login queue w/ timeout disconnect, repeat loop each attempt.
This calls for a Starbucks frappachino run and hope all is well when I’m back sipping on my mocha goodness
Edit - holy cow Batman, the queue now says 26min, saw timer go up just as getting up to leave for coffee run
Yeah I’m really not a fan of this “mmorpg always online lite” crap they have implemented. If I wanted the server problems WoW constantly faces I’d play WoW…