The only problem i have with D3 right now are the server, Myself all my close friend and online friend who play D3 got a LagSpike
,by lagspike i mean when we run/chase mobs/sometime we go back 1 sec where we were before,
all the time,
I'm finding that too. My screen goes white for a milisecond and I find myself back to where I was. Same with firing a crossbow or bow or spell. Comes up blank then there is a "catch-up" of spell or bow by shooting off two.
The game, days after launch is still offline, lag when online, loss of characters, gold, stats, items and Blizzard is just joking with the customers in the EU. Saying its all our own fault, etc. They really lost it there!
People I call on you all to return your games and get a refund and buy it over 3 months at half price. Why do we have to pay full price and get half a game and then when the game is really finished the game is dropped in price to half the price and those people pay half the price for the full game! Its just not fair!
That's what happens when you shell out coin for an unfinished game...Sad thing is more companies are doing this and getting away with it. As you will see from my other posts about Bli$$ard I don't buy their games as they crap and far to easy to play if they play at all.
I hope you manage to get it sorted as there is nothing worse than paying to play a poor game after it goes live and no one should suffer like this.
I have had no lag issues. I guess my internet connection is amazing amirite? But yeah it sucks that the servers are down on a Sunday :-(
European servers are not a problem, so yeah you won't have lag. Log into US servers and you'll see the latency is a joke. There are countless threads on this and no reply since friday! But we are fed you know, the usual user error crap if there is a reply.
I've been playing the last 3 hours with zero lag or connection issues, but Ok, I'll just take your word for it.
I have had no lag issues. I guess my internet connection is amazing amirite? But yeah it sucks that the servers are down on a Sunday :-(
European servers are not a problem, so yeah you won't have lag. Log into US servers and you'll see the latency is a joke. There are countless threads on this and no reply since friday! But we are fed you know, the usual user error crap if there is a reply.
I've been playing the last 3 hours with zero lag or connection issues, but Ok, I'll just take your word for it.
At least you've been playing the game. The EU servers have been down for about 4-5 hours and now error 37 has come back to haunt us again.
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I have had no lag issues. I guess my internet connection is amazing amirite? But yeah it sucks that the servers are down on a Sunday :-(
European servers are not a problem, so yeah you won't have lag. Log into US servers and you'll see the latency is a joke. There are countless threads on this and no reply since friday! But we are fed you know, the usual user error crap if there is a reply.
I've been playing the last 3 hours with zero lag or connection issues, but Ok, I'll just take your word for it.
At least you've been playing the game. The EU servers have been down for about 4-5 hours and now error 37 has come back to haunt us again.
Yeah I've heard bad things about the Euro server, but the only thing I've noticed with the US servers is occasionally it tends to jump in latency from 180 to 340, then back down. Other than that, relatively lag free.
The game, days after launch is still offline, lag when online, loss of characters, gold, stats, items and Blizzard is just joking with the customers in the EU. Saying its all our own fault, etc. They really lost it there!
People I call on you all to return your games and get a refund and buy it over 3 months at half price. Why do we have to pay full price and get half a game and then when the game is really finished the game is dropped in price to half the price and those people pay half the price for the full game! Its just not fair!
That's what happens when you shell out coin for an unfinished game...Sad thing is more companies are doing this and getting away with it. As you will see from my other posts about Bli$$ard I don't buy their games as they crap and far to easy to play if they play at all.
I hope you manage to get it sorted as there is nothing worse than paying to play a poor game after it goes live and no one should suffer like this.
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I can understand this if it was say developed for a year or two. But this game has been in developement for a long, long, long time. There really should be zero excuses from blizz on all the issues that abound...Especially for us with gaming rigs that should run it like butter. Right now I'm sick of the stuttering and latency issues....I just wanna kill without rubberbanding around in the game. You'd think this was the first week of a Diablo mmo
Nope. Worst launch ever still goes to Earthrise in my opinion.
You see, Earthrise had more of Thes downtime and lag issues than Diablo and on top of that the game was barely playable when the servers were up. The actual game itself was broken beyond repair.
DON'T buy a single player game with multiplayer OPTIONS that forces you to log in to a service. Period.
Stop this crap in it's tracks. Watch these games go down in flames and laugh at the makers as you feel the surge of you consumer powers rush through you body.
If you buy the garbage they give you, they will give you the garbage.
DON'T buy a single player game with multiplayer OPTIONS that forces you to log in to a service. Period.
Stop this crap in it's tracks. Watch these games go down in flames and laugh at the makers as you feel the surge of you consumer powers rush through you body.
If you buy the garbage they give you, they will give you the garbage.
Tell em to shove it!
Won't happen. Not everyone is consious enough to deny such an anticipated game. I know I'm not.
I haven't played a couple of big games (Batman and ME3) because of 1-day DLCs, but diablo3 was the most hype-inducing game for me so I slacked off. Game actually didn't dissapoint me but this steaming pile of online-only-BS made me to rethink my attitude towards ActiBlizzard.
You'll end up playing nothing but console games. Look around at how many companies are making quality games exclusive to computers anymore.
There are still games like that. Most of them are strategy though.
I think it would be hard to boycot all games with some stuff that I don´t like, but some of them have more stuff than others and them I stay away from.
If all PC games start to stink I would either move back to P&P or start on my own game with some friends.
It sucks that there have been issues. I've experienced some myself as in not being able to play or disconnecting before I could pick up the loot from a boss kill. However these things will be ironed out relatively quickly, but it still sucks to honest. With that said I'm still enjoying the game and feel that the money was well spent.
As to it not being fair to pay full price, well that is just the nature of business. The demand is incredibly high at release so the asking price is higher due to people willing to pay the price. As demand decreases, so will the price. It's not about fairness, it's just about how much people want it. Since this is a blizzard title, I'd imagine the demand will stay relatively healthy for quite some time.
Originally posted by colddog04 ]What I mean is no purchase price. I thought people would be able to figure that one out.
that is one of the dumbest things i have ever read on this website, which is saying a lot lol
i would bet everything i own that Diablo 3 will never be a free game and i am not a betting man.
do you know of a blizzard game that is free to play? i am not talking about mmo's either, which you are clearly confused about.
you realize this isn't an mmo, right?
even Diablo 1 and 2 are not free to purchase. seriously, buy a freaking clue lol
I too find it doubtful but also I dont see it as impossible and the reason he is giving for such a possible move is far from stupid. If one day the boxes stop really selling all that much, and we're talking a long while from now, they might just do it.
He's already explained why. If they allowed tons of people to play free that would mean those tons of players might start using the real money auction and Blizzard takes a cut from that. Therefore if box sales begin to level out or dip, then it might be more profitable for them.
Again I said I highly doubt this happening but what he is suggesting would actually be SMART not stupid if Blizzard sales ever severly dipped and they decided to go that route as a more profitable income solution.
But Im just saying ColdDog has already explained. Unlikely yea. Stupid, not at all.
Originally posted by colddog04]What I mean is no purchase price. I thought people would be able to figure that one out.
that is one of the dumbest things i have ever read on this website, which is saying a lot loli would bet everything i own that Diablo 3 will never be a free game and i am not a betting man.do you know of a blizzard game that is free to play? i am not talking about mmo's either, which you are clearly confused about.you realize this isn't an mmo, right?even Diablo 1 and 2 are not free to purchase. seriously, buy a freaking clue lol
I too find it doubtful but also I dont see it as impossible and the reason he is giving for such a possible move is far from stupid. If one day the boxes stop really selling all that much, and we're talking a long while from now, they might just do it.
He's already explained why. If they allowed tons of people to play free that would mean those tons of players might start using the real money auction and Blizzard takes a cut from that. Therefore if box sales begin to level out or dip, then it might be more profitable for them.
Again I said I highly doubt this happening but what he is suggesting would actually be SMART not stupid if Blizzard sales ever severly dipped and they decided to go that route as a more profitable income solution.
But Im just saying ColdDog has already explained. Unlikely yea. Stupid, not at all.
its stupid to suggest that it will happen, because it wont. its not like its an mmo that is dropping its subscription fee so the fans will come back.
hypothetically speaking, if what you are suggesting is possible, at what point does that happen? 5 years, 10 years from now? how many people do you actually think that would bring in at that point?
the people that would have ever given this game a try would have already bought it by then, especially after the price dips.
sure they would get some new players but at that point it would be very few. out of the pool of those players that would only play a game that is free, how many of them are going to be willing to spend money on items?
yep, thats smart. wait for a game to be free to purchase just so you can spend money on items in game? smh
again, anyone interested in playing this game would have already bought it at the full or reduced price, especially those willing to spend money at the RMAH.
on top of that, no blizzard game has ever been free to purchase, even games that are nearing 20 years old now.
regardless of what you feel about D3 or blizzard, its never going to happen and its stupid to suggest that it will.
its far more likely that wow would become F2P at some point IMO
Originally posted by colddog04]What I mean is no purchase price. I thought people would be able to figure that one out.
that is one of the dumbest things i have ever read on this website, which is saying a lot loli would bet everything i own that Diablo 3 will never be a free game and i am not a betting man.do you know of a blizzard game that is free to play? i am not talking about mmo's either, which you are clearly confused about.you realize this isn't an mmo, right?even Diablo 1 and 2 are not free to purchase. seriously, buy a freaking clue lol
I too find it doubtful but also I dont see it as impossible and the reason he is giving for such a possible move is far from stupid. If one day the boxes stop really selling all that much, and we're talking a long while from now, they might just do it.
He's already explained why. If they allowed tons of people to play free that would mean those tons of players might start using the real money auction and Blizzard takes a cut from that. Therefore if box sales begin to level out or dip, then it might be more profitable for them.
Again I said I highly doubt this happening but what he is suggesting would actually be SMART not stupid if Blizzard sales ever severly dipped and they decided to go that route as a more profitable income solution.
But Im just saying ColdDog has already explained. Unlikely yea. Stupid, not at all.
its stupid to suggest that it will happen, because it wont. its not like its an mmo that is dropping its subscription fee so the fans will come back.
hypothetically speaking, if what you are suggesting is possible, at what point does that happen? 5 years, 10 years from now? how many people do you actually think that would bring in at that point?
the people that would have ever given this game a try would have already bought it by then, especially after the price dips.
sure they would get some new players but at that point it would be very few. out of the pool of those players that would only play a game that is free, how many of them are going to be willing to spend money on items?
yep, thats smart. wait for a game to be free to purchase just so you can spend money on items in game? smh
again, anyone interested in playing this game would have already bought it at the full or reduced price, especially those willing to spend money at the RMAH.
on top of that, no blizzard game has ever been free to purchase, even games that are nearing 20 years old now.
regardless of what you feel about D3 or blizzard, its never going to happen and its stupid to suggest that it will.
its far more likely that wow would become F2P at some point IMO
Worst launch ever? Why? Because the game was unavailble for a few hours? It's unfortunate but there have been so many games that have done so much worse and didn't respond as quickly as Blizzard did. Anyways, the launch is in the past, now we get to enjoy one of the best games to come along in a long time. My opinon of course.
No but they have dropped the price before. There will be a Diablo 3 battlechest a year or two after the second expansion. Probably for $39.99-49.99. That's an Activision thing by the way, they never planned more than one Blizzard made expansion for their games before ActiBlizz. Everyone feel free to rant about how that second expansion is all about greed. We'll wait for those who wish to do so to finish.
Are they planning for 2 expansions already?
Anyway, how low the price goes and how fast it goes down depends on how much people actually play this thing. It's been a week. In a few months, the honeymoon phase will be over and we'll see how excited people still are about the game.
A year after the expansion - or second expansion if that's true - I don't see any reason why they wouldn't make it free.
That other poster liked to talk about how there was no way they would because "they never have before" and because everyone that wanted to play it would have already bought it. I think he just has no clue about the sheer amount of people that making it free would bring in. There will be a percentage of those people that get hooked on the system and begin to participate in the RMAH.
Originally posted by colddog04They've never had a RMAH before.
No but they have dropped the price before. There will be a Diablo 3 battlechest a year or two after the second expansion. Probably for $39.99-49.99. That's an Activision thing by the way, they never planned more than one Blizzard made expansion for their games before ActiBlizz. Everyone feel free to rant about how that second expansion is all about greed. We'll wait for those who wish to do so to finish.
Are they planning for 2 expansions already?
Anyway, how low the price goes and how fast it goes down depends on how much people actually play this thing. It's been a week. In a few months, the honeymoon phase will be over and we'll see how excited people still are about the game.
A year after the expansion - or second expansion if that's true - I don't see any reason why they wouldn't make it free.
That other poster liked to talk about how there was no way they would because "they never have before" and because everyone that wanted to play it would have already bought it. I think he just has no clue about the sheer amount of people that making it free would bring in. There will be a percentage of those people that get hooked on the system and begin to participate in the RMAH.
why? why would that bring in any amount of people at all? and by people i mean people willing to spend money on the RMAH. the people it would bring in would be people just looking to play free games, yet they are then going to spend their money on in game items?
this is a single player/co-op game, its not an mmo with a sub fee. the people that they would want to be targeting to use their RMAH are not people looking to play free games only lol
also, by the time they would even consider doing this the extreme vast majority of people that would ever play this game would have already done so.
i fail to see how this would bring in so many people that would be willing to pay for items when they were not even willing to pay 20-$30 to buy the game in the first place.
Originally posted by colddog04They've never had a RMAH before.
No but they have dropped the price before. There will be a Diablo 3 battlechest a year or two after the second expansion. Probably for $39.99-49.99. That's an Activision thing by the way, they never planned more than one Blizzard made expansion for their games before ActiBlizz. Everyone feel free to rant about how that second expansion is all about greed. We'll wait for those who wish to do so to finish.
Are they planning for 2 expansions already?
Anyway, how low the price goes and how fast it goes down depends on how much people actually play this thing. It's been a week. In a few months, the honeymoon phase will be over and we'll see how excited people still are about the game.
A year after the expansion - or second expansion if that's true - I don't see any reason why they wouldn't make it free.
That other poster liked to talk about how there was no way they would because "they never have before" and because everyone that wanted to play it would have already bought it. I think he just has no clue about the sheer amount of people that making it free would bring in. There will be a percentage of those people that get hooked on the system and begin to participate in the RMAH.
why? why would that bring in any amount of people at all? and by people i mean people willing to spend money on the RMAH. the people it would bring in would be people just looking to play free games, yet they are then going to spend their money on in game items?
this is a single player/co-op game, its not an mmo with a sub fee. the people that they would want to be targeting to use their RMAH are not people looking to play free games only lol
also, by the time they would even consider doing this the extreme vast majority of people that would ever play this game would have already done so.
i fail to see how this would bring in so many people that would be willing to pay for items when they were not even willing to pay 20-$30 to buy the game in the first place.
nope, i am afraid that will never happen
Aw well. It seems fairly obvious to me. GAME THAT IS POPULAR + FREE = MORE PLAYERS.
You think there is no incentive in that. I think there is. Pretty much nowhere else to go with arguments. Although I enjoyed being called stupid by you. And it's too bad you "fail to see how this would bring in more people."
The game, days after launch is still offline, lag when online, loss of characters, gold, stats, items and Blizzard is just joking with the customers in the EU. Saying its all our own fault, etc. They really lost it there!
People I call on you all to return your games and get a refund and buy it over 3 months at half price. Why do we have to pay full price and get half a game and then when the game is really finished the game is dropped in price to half the price and those people pay half the price for the full game! Its just not fair!
I have had no issues with Diablo 3, none whatsoever.
Ok there was a problem getting on the servers on release day for about 4 hours and again on sunday they brought the servers down for about 4 hours.
Of course you would have to question why they would bring the servers down on the Sunday following release, but without further information that is all we can do. We do not why they did this and I can only assume that it was a critical issue, that had to be resolved asap.
So in my experience (not yours) I would not say it was the worst launch ever, in fact I would say the opposite, with zero issues and the server being down for 6% of the time (that I was aware of, which iaffected my play time) i would say it was a not a bad release.
Making it free could bring quite a lot of people inside. Many people simply dont have enough money to spend on games no matter how much they like them. So a free edition would be a great promotion for the game in my opinion.
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The only problem i have with D3 right now are the server, Myself all my close friend and online friend who play D3 got a LagSpike
,by lagspike i mean when we run/chase mobs/sometime we go back 1 sec where we were before,
all the time,
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Good for you. However, if you had a really bad Diablo 3 itch right now, you won't be able to scratch it because the servers are down.
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I'm finding that too. My screen goes white for a milisecond and I find myself back to where I was. Same with firing a crossbow or bow or spell. Comes up blank then there is a "catch-up" of spell or bow by shooting off two.
That's what happens when you shell out coin for an unfinished game...Sad thing is more companies are doing this and getting away with it. As you will see from my other posts about Bli$$ard I don't buy their games as they crap and far to easy to play if they play at all.
I hope you manage to get it sorted as there is nothing worse than paying to play a poor game after it goes live and no one should suffer like this.
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I've been playing the last 3 hours with zero lag or connection issues, but Ok, I'll just take your word for it.
At least you've been playing the game. The EU servers have been down for about 4-5 hours and now error 37 has come back to haunt us again.
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Yeah I've heard bad things about the Euro server, but the only thing I've noticed with the US servers is occasionally it tends to jump in latency from 180 to 340, then back down. Other than that, relatively lag free.
I can understand this if it was say developed for a year or two. But this game has been in developement for a long, long, long time. There really should be zero excuses from blizz on all the issues that abound...Especially for us with gaming rigs that should run it like butter. Right now I'm sick of the stuttering and latency issues....I just wanna kill without rubberbanding around in the game. You'd think this was the first week of a Diablo mmo
You see, Earthrise had more of Thes downtime and lag issues than Diablo and on top of that the game was barely playable when the servers were up. The actual game itself was broken beyond repair.
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DON'T buy a single player game with multiplayer OPTIONS that forces you to log in to a service. Period.
Stop this crap in it's tracks. Watch these games go down in flames and laugh at the makers as you feel the surge of you consumer powers rush through you body.
If you buy the garbage they give you, they will give you the garbage.
Tell em to shove it!
There are still games like that. Most of them are strategy though.
I think it would be hard to boycot all games with some stuff that I don´t like, but some of them have more stuff than others and them I stay away from.
If all PC games start to stink I would either move back to P&P or start on my own game with some friends.
It sucks that there have been issues. I've experienced some myself as in not being able to play or disconnecting before I could pick up the loot from a boss kill. However these things will be ironed out relatively quickly, but it still sucks to honest. With that said I'm still enjoying the game and feel that the money was well spent.
As to it not being fair to pay full price, well that is just the nature of business. The demand is incredibly high at release so the asking price is higher due to people willing to pay the price. As demand decreases, so will the price. It's not about fairness, it's just about how much people want it. Since this is a blizzard title, I'd imagine the demand will stay relatively healthy for quite some time.
that is one of the dumbest things i have ever read on this website, which is saying a lot lol
i would bet everything i own that Diablo 3 will never be a free game and i am not a betting man.
do you know of a blizzard game that is free to play? i am not talking about mmo's either, which you are clearly confused about.
you realize this isn't an mmo, right?
even Diablo 1 and 2 are not free to purchase. seriously, buy a freaking clue lol
I too find it doubtful but also I dont see it as impossible and the reason he is giving for such a possible move is far from stupid. If one day the boxes stop really selling all that much, and we're talking a long while from now, they might just do it.
He's already explained why. If they allowed tons of people to play free that would mean those tons of players might start using the real money auction and Blizzard takes a cut from that. Therefore if box sales begin to level out or dip, then it might be more profitable for them.
Again I said I highly doubt this happening but what he is suggesting would actually be SMART not stupid if Blizzard sales ever severly dipped and they decided to go that route as a more profitable income solution.
But Im just saying ColdDog has already explained. Unlikely yea. Stupid, not at all.
its stupid to suggest that it will happen, because it wont. its not like its an mmo that is dropping its subscription fee so the fans will come back.
hypothetically speaking, if what you are suggesting is possible, at what point does that happen? 5 years, 10 years from now? how many people do you actually think that would bring in at that point?
the people that would have ever given this game a try would have already bought it by then, especially after the price dips.
sure they would get some new players but at that point it would be very few. out of the pool of those players that would only play a game that is free, how many of them are going to be willing to spend money on items?
yep, thats smart. wait for a game to be free to purchase just so you can spend money on items in game? smh
again, anyone interested in playing this game would have already bought it at the full or reduced price, especially those willing to spend money at the RMAH.
on top of that, no blizzard game has ever been free to purchase, even games that are nearing 20 years old now.
regardless of what you feel about D3 or blizzard, its never going to happen and its stupid to suggest that it will.
its far more likely that wow would become F2P at some point IMO
They've never had a RMAH before.
Worst launch ever? Why? Because the game was unavailble for a few hours? It's unfortunate but there have been so many games that have done so much worse and didn't respond as quickly as Blizzard did. Anyways, the launch is in the past, now we get to enjoy one of the best games to come along in a long time. My opinon of course.
Are they planning for 2 expansions already?
Anyway, how low the price goes and how fast it goes down depends on how much people actually play this thing. It's been a week. In a few months, the honeymoon phase will be over and we'll see how excited people still are about the game.
A year after the expansion - or second expansion if that's true - I don't see any reason why they wouldn't make it free.
That other poster liked to talk about how there was no way they would because "they never have before" and because everyone that wanted to play it would have already bought it. I think he just has no clue about the sheer amount of people that making it free would bring in. There will be a percentage of those people that get hooked on the system and begin to participate in the RMAH.
why? why would that bring in any amount of people at all? and by people i mean people willing to spend money on the RMAH. the people it would bring in would be people just looking to play free games, yet they are then going to spend their money on in game items?
this is a single player/co-op game, its not an mmo with a sub fee. the people that they would want to be targeting to use their RMAH are not people looking to play free games only lol
also, by the time they would even consider doing this the extreme vast majority of people that would ever play this game would have already done so.
i fail to see how this would bring in so many people that would be willing to pay for items when they were not even willing to pay 20-$30 to buy the game in the first place.
nope, i am afraid that will never happen.
Aw well. It seems fairly obvious to me. GAME THAT IS POPULAR + FREE = MORE PLAYERS.
You think there is no incentive in that. I think there is. Pretty much nowhere else to go with arguments. Although I enjoyed being called stupid by you. And it's too bad you "fail to see how this would bring in more people."
I have had no issues with Diablo 3, none whatsoever.
Ok there was a problem getting on the servers on release day for about 4 hours and again on sunday they brought the servers down for about 4 hours.
Of course you would have to question why they would bring the servers down on the Sunday following release, but without further information that is all we can do. We do not why they did this and I can only assume that it was a critical issue, that had to be resolved asap.
So in my experience (not yours) I would not say it was the worst launch ever, in fact I would say the opposite, with zero issues and the server being down for 6% of the time (that I was aware of, which iaffected my play time) i would say it was a not a bad release.
Making it free could bring quite a lot of people inside. Many people simply dont have enough money to spend on games no matter how much they like them. So a free edition would be a great promotion for the game in my opinion.
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