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Battle.net down for maintenance: Anger over timing

ItemGet|5125d ago |News|17|

Battle.net and associated services have been taken offline for maintenance from 12:00 GMT (4:00 PDT) today for an unspecified amount of time.

Rant: The lucky Americans have down time whilst they sleep, but the Europeans have downtime during the middle of their casual Sundays.

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Godmars2905125d ago

Are people just going to put up with this? Just deal - complain - about these outages as Blizzard "fixes" an issue they set in place? Let them fix it, then spend more money in the auction house when they offer stuff there?

Are we honestly *THAT* stupid?

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Quickstrike5125d ago

what bugs me is why there isn't a larger movement against always online DRM. I mean sure it helps hinders piracy somewhat but they'll always find around that and still get the game for free.

Take this down time for example, players of Diablo III can't play it because the servers are down, but if players could *gasp* play offline in the single player campaign by themselves, this server downtime wouldn't matter.

DRM hurts the consumer more than it curves piracy, if anything DRM encourages piracy. Hopefully consumers get outraged enough to demand the always online DRM to be removed.

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PFirefly5125d ago

My sentiment exactly.

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NeoTribe5125d ago

Its not about piracy. Why don't people get this. Its about keepin the hackers from fuckin everything up and ruining the wealth of various rare items. I played d2 for 4 years religiously and aol of a sudden dupes ran wild and destroyed the value of everything I worked my ass off for. My account was worth over 2k and than nothing. If it was about piracy starcraft 2 would be online only. If diablos economy and loot wernt taken seriously by so many people than it wouldn't be online only. How would u feel playing legit for years and years workin ur ass off for items worth tons of money and than one day those items are being thrown out for anyone to grab just to flood the game with fake godly loot. I quit playing after that and it sux. So I'm all down for this online only as long as it helps safeguard my hard work.

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Quickstrike5125d ago

@NeoTribe

Ah, still if that's the reason for the always online DRM, then the simple solution is to have a character that you can't bring online that you can use offline and a character that you can only use online. That way people who bought the game can still play the game that they paid for while the online portion is unavailable.

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Magic_Spatula5125d ago

@Quickstrike

That's pretty much what I said in another article. Have separate online and offline characters, and have only the online characters able to use the auction house.

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Quickstrike5125d ago (Edited 5125d ago )

@Magic_Spatula

I see we think the same then :)

Still the important question to Blizzard is;

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING WHEN THEY DECIDED TO HAVE IT, TO WHERE IF YOU WANT TO PLAY THEIR GAME THAT'S BEEN ANTICIPATED FOR YEARS, YOU HAVE TO BE ONLINE ALL THE TIME EVEN IF YOU WANT TO PLAY BY YOURSELF?

Seriously, I can't believe no one working there thought about the potential backlash that could happen if say they had to preform an emergency maintenance to the servers in a prime gaming time for most of their players or if another anonymous fiasco happened like with PSN last year but to their battle.net service.

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Magic_Spatula5125d ago (Edited 5125d ago )

@Quickstrike

There were probably people who questioned the decision and/or even opposed it, but the higher ups have final say what goes into the game.

Though I've been one of those that have waited the 10+ years for the game, I still won't buy this game until the always on DRM crap is removed from the game and a change to the auction house has been made. $60 bucks for a game and you still want to charge me real money to buy stuff in-game? It isn't a F2P MMO y'know.

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fermcr5125d ago (Edited 5125d ago )

What surprises me is reviewers giving Diablo 3 9's and 10's. This game is unplayable. If it's playable it has lag. Not even if it was playable it deserves 9's and 10's. This game gets a free pass simply because it's a Blizzard and a Diablo game. If it was another game or another company reviewers would be hammering it. With all these problems, it's still more expensive then other PC titles and if you want certain items in game you have to pay for them.

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fermcr5125d ago

"Are we honestly *THAT* stupid? "

Yes a lot of players are that stupid.

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PirateThom5125d ago

What a disaster of a game launch, all because of always on DRM.

Sure was a great idea.

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Agent Smith5125d ago

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Quickstrike5125d ago

Agent Smith, your picture 100% describes the atrocity that DRM represents to the consumer.

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svoulis5125d ago

Woo Finally a downtime that benefits me! I took off work 2 days to play this game, Day one...you all know how that went in the US. Day 2...well same thing..Thanks Blizzard for making us need to always connect to your broke ass servers!

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MWH5125d ago (Edited 5125d ago )

companies that uses DRM should be boycotted in my opinion. gamers should stand together against this and express with one voice that his bullshit must stop.

i for one, will do just that.. it's not easy but enough is enough.

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Allowen5125d ago

The problem of this DRM is not just about being online to be able to play it but it is about having to download and upload lots of info every minute.

I don´t think with that DRM from D3 will permit myself from playing this game in a laptop using 3G connection on the go.

Other then that this DRM brings at least quite a few benefits like were already talked on posts above mine.
It is for sure less annoying then that DRM from Ubisoft on Assassin's Creed 2 ...

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Diablo III Season 38 Launches Into Server Trouble — And Players Are Already Running Into Error

kamper|63d ago |News|0|

Diablo III Season 38 launched with Ethereals back, but players are reporting Error 395002, disconnects, and server trouble.

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Diablo 3 Season 38 Starts March 27, So Here’s What to Finish Before Ethereal Memory Goes Live

kamper|66d ago |News|0|

Diablo 3 Season 38 starts March 27. Here’s what to finish before Ethereal Memory begins, from class choice and stash cleanup to Conquests and Ethereal

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Diablo 4 and Diablo 3 teams change structure in an attempt to release less buggy seasons

Christopher|482d ago |News|2|

Via Diablo’s global director of community Adam Fletcher, Blizzard is introducing new measures to improve the quality of season launches in the future. Across both Diablo 4 and the aging Diablo 3, fans of Blizzard’s games should all benefit.

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anast482d ago

If they didn't let the cellphone guy touch the 3rd one in first place, they wouldn't have to dance around like clowns trying to make money.

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Xristo482d ago

We've been asking for less "boring" seasons... "boring"... not "buggy"... same ol' rehashed content just a different color is not working.

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