i agree with you 100 on everything. but the reason they SAY there is no single player is to stop the hackers and dupers..that ruined d1 and d2. im pissed right now i cant play
yeah, but... come on... d2 had an offline only mode separate from b.net. It sucked, but it's better than this...
You have to understand that the release of Diablo 3 represents the single most massive Distributed Denial of Service attack in the history of networking. Millions (my estimate is anywhere between 1-5 million, depending on how many people are willing to stay up late in the US) of people are sending packets to the D3 login servers. Repeatedly. Constantly. For the last 75 minutes.
It's the biggest packet-bomb of all time. A packet Fat Man, if you will.
Nothing could have possibly been done to avoid it. They could have mitigated it with extra hardware, but then after this morning they'd never need 9/10 of the hardware they used to (only fractionally) mitigate the DDoS of tonight's login. That's a waste of money. They could have done X number of things to help (I'd have assigned a "login capable" time based on the B-net address on the account, not announced that until midnight, and locked changing addresses until next week unless you call customer service, to stagger the logins) but there are X number of reasons any one of those would have pissed off the community (of whiners) just as much as not being able to login is pissing them off.
Not everyone gets to go to the Super Bowl, which is once a year, and costs a lot more than D3. Not everyone gets a Mercedes Benz S-class, of which there are a limited number, and which costs far more than D3. Not everyone gets to log into D3 on the first day, but tomorrow it'll be fine.
What's the problem?
I imagine if they had a queue system we would all be staring at a really big number right now and complaining about that instead.
I'm sure they would have to make an incredibly massively huge investment in servers and bandwidth to support the number of people all trying to log in during the first few hours. But when things calm down the next day, they wouldn't need it anymore and would have tons of useless equipment just sitting around. It's pure economics.
Didn't they already do this at least for the beta?
Found this in act 2 but the 1h weapons I have are already better. I don't know what else would be better for a lvl 10 monk...
I imagine if they had a queue system we would all be staring at a really big number right now and complaining about that instead.