it wasnt my fault about this death . its the fail server of blizzard. i always play 2 diff lower for this situtations... but i couldnt quit the game i stood there for about 3-4 mins!!
A LOT of hc characters die every day. Some because of local connection issues, some because of player foolhardiness, and occasionally Blizzard's servers have a bad day. That is the risk you (are supposed to) accept!
And if you want a perfect game, you might as well unplug your computer now and start doing crosswords.
It DOES fall on you. That's the entire point of playing a hardcore character! Accept the loss and move on, like the rest of us do. And be glad that Blizzard have the most stable servers I've seen in online gaming, so usually when internet causes a hc death, it is the local connection, and not the server. Obviously not the case today, which is why I don't play on my hc toon
In this case the customer isn't right. You signed an agreement when you made your HC character. You accepted that you could lose your character to things outside your control. And that a restoration of that character will never happen.
It DOES fall on you. That's the entire point of playing a hardcore character! Accept the loss and move on, like the rest of us do. And be glad that Blizzard have the most stable servers I've seen in online gaming, so usually when internet causes a hc death, it is the local connection, and not the server. Obviously not the case today, which is why I don't play on my hc toon
Well... I don't want to revive the tired old "online always" debate, but c'mon; it really sucks to lose a character due to lag. It's just dumb. I agree with you though. Two years in I think we all understand the risks whether we like it or not.
Of course I agree that it sucks to lose a character due to lag. I lost my main to a DC on launch night!
But that is the risk I accepted when creating a hardcore character. If shit happens, it's gone. The type of shit is irrelevant. That's the thrill of it. And to be fair, Blizz still has the best servers I've seen in online gaming, which is why D3 is the only always-online game I create hardcore characters in.
It's a game kid, suck it up and start over. There's softcore if you can't handle hardcore (doesn't seem like you can). The customer isn't always right, try getting a job and you'll figure that out
but when the fourms are flooded with angry customers. the buisness owner must listen to them and not spit on them.
The customer is most certainly NOT always right. I think anyone who has ever been on both sides of that arrangement will agree with that.
What the forums are flooded with doesn't matter in the slightest. Lets just talk about classic Blizzard games for a moment. (D2/LoD, SC/BW, WarCraft 2/3/Frozen Throne/etc) If you were to take a look at those forums at the peak of the game's popularity, you'd see forums flooded with angry complaining customers as well. If you go to the League, Dota 2, WildStar, ESO, etc forums (Just listing really popular games off the top of my head.) you know what you'll find? Lots of extremely angry and unsatisfied people. Angry/Unsatisfied people post, happy/satisfied people post a lot less often.
I'm a software developer myself and I know what it's like to tell some people their services are safe so thay they could then tell millions of other people that their data is safe and so on and to forth. As a dev team lead, I know that as long as you have an incompetent developer in your team, you can't promise anything to anybody. Apparently (based on latests events), a company like Blizzard doesn't feel they have to be picky when it comes to accepting new people to their team AND organizing their development process well enough to prevent fuck-ups that we've seen today. This is why I'll NEVER EVER touch HC in D3, unless they'll make it totally offline. Their services are way too fragile to rely on.
I mean, come on. Me and my friends got DC'd today and were in-game for like 3-4 minutes (!!!) after DC. Now tell me, what kind of fucking amateurs develop this game if they don't even know what timeouts are for in SOA? That's one of the basics when it comes to designing client-server systems and it's rather obvious that these guys know little of it. How can you trust your HC char to people that allow your char to stay in the game for 3-4 minutes after you've got disconnected because of their fault???
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when i just couldnt play the game for 30 minutes "Servers are busy".
comon blizzard i played with my crussader for about a full week non stop and this is what i deserve?
what we do now?
on europe server.
Personally, I stick to softcore on days where the servers are acting up, rare as they are.
if the game is online only. it should be perfect.
if its not someone gotta give some answers for this shit.
And if you want a perfect game, you might as well unplug your computer now and start doing crosswords.
but now its not ok because blizzard is not ok. it shouldnt fall on me.
but when the fourms are flooded with angry customers. the buisness owner must listen to them and not spit on them.
Just make a new one and move on.
And may the odds be ever in your favour.
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But that is the risk I accepted when creating a hardcore character. If shit happens, it's gone. The type of shit is irrelevant. That's the thrill of it. And to be fair, Blizz still has the best servers I've seen in online gaming, which is why D3 is the only always-online game I create hardcore characters in.
I guess HC is not for you if you can not handle the loss of a HC Character.
What the forums are flooded with doesn't matter in the slightest. Lets just talk about classic Blizzard games for a moment. (D2/LoD, SC/BW, WarCraft 2/3/Frozen Throne/etc) If you were to take a look at those forums at the peak of the game's popularity, you'd see forums flooded with angry complaining customers as well. If you go to the League, Dota 2, WildStar, ESO, etc forums (Just listing really popular games off the top of my head.) you know what you'll find? Lots of extremely angry and unsatisfied people. Angry/Unsatisfied people post, happy/satisfied people post a lot less often.
I didn't cry, pout or start blaming technology itself...... I just moved on.
Confucius say. "Crying about hardcore, is not hardcore."
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