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Palpek
Dec 27, 2008

I never asked for this
lama, sheriff Truman.


diabloplayer.txt posted:

YOU GO TO HELL BLIZZARD, YOU GO TO HELL AND YOU DIE.

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Twatworth
Apr 5, 2012


BullProofMonk posted:

I had an issue like this at work recently.

We were going to purchase 20 blade servers to put into our rack, using esxi/vmware for a cloud computing environment. This was what we recommended to handle the workload for the 'cloud', based on memory and processor requirements for the amount of users. Estimates would have put the environment at around 60% utilized at peak, with plenty of backup if a server would crash or go offline.

The business end comes back and tells the IT group that we can have half as many servers.

Launch day comes around, and you can pretty much guess what happened.

Welcome to working in 'BIG BUSINESS'.

What is the source for your quote?

Bash Ironfist
Aug 16, 2008



ultramiraculous posted:

Imagine being on phone support last night. It was probably a 12 hour straight shift of this garbage being yelled DIRECTLY INTO YOUR EAR YOU enjoyable human being SCAMMER ASSHOLES.

Oh man, I didn't even think of that. I wonder how high the suicide rate went up at blizzard's phone support center since last night.

BullProofMonk
Dec 8, 2004

PURPLE RAIN!!!!!!!

Twatworth posted:

What is the source for your quote?

I was just making a general comment in the vein of the outage.

Red Harvest
Mar 13, 2007

Wait, it's Clint? Well shit.


ultramiraculous posted:

Imagine being on phone support last night. It was probably a 12 hour straight shift of this garbage being yelled DIRECTLY INTO YOUR EAR YOU enjoyable human being SCAMMER ASSHOLES.

Having worked phone support before, and having been screamed at for issues even less serious than "I can't log in the second the game launches", I imagine everyone at Blizzard's call center asked for the 14th-15th off months in advance.

My hat is off to you, you poor Blizzard support people.

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008

I never asked for this
lama, sheriff Truman.


loving amazing:

diabloplayer.txt posted:

Wow the universe yet again conspires against me! I downloaded Diablo early in hopes of seeing the launch, then found out I needed to update windows, once I did all sorts of latent viruses popped up and I spent the next few hours in repairs. Got my computer ready, then found out my video card wasn't supported, so rushed out to get the best I could find...it refused to load, then I found out my power supply wasn't enough, so I cannibalized a power supply, got it patched together..game running..error 317002..Argh!!!!

Twatworth
Apr 5, 2012


Extremely believable...

quote:

I got D/C'd right after killing diablo with my friend and can not log back in due to the emergency maintenance, he got 4 rares while i miss out on it all. I demand items of equal value for my witch doctor, this is BS

Bhaal
Jul 13, 2001
I ain't going down alone

Kiwi Bigtree posted:

I am really tempted to go over there and start a rumor that Blizzard is deliberately tagging the IPs of accounts who complain about the game to deliberately get dropped frequently from the servers.
I'm tempted to start a thread like "Post screenshots of your beta FoS in-game!" and reiterate in the OP that "this thread is just for us beta players to share our FoS that we earned sorry if that excludes some of you but we are proud of our beta achievement" and put that in a spot with high visability to the crybabies.

HERE LIES TEBOW
Jan 19, 2012



Twatworth posted:

Extremely believable...

So is this game really short compared to the other Diablos or something? I remember 2 taking me like two weeks as a kid and these dudes are beating it the day it came out.

I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004



Kiwi Bigtree posted:

So is this game really short compared to the other Diablos or something? I remember 2 taking me like two weeks as a kid and these dudes are beating it the day it came out.

These are really hardcore players though. Diablo III is actually longer than Diablo II classic. More importantly, it's a hell of a lot more interesting.

Twatworth
Apr 5, 2012


I said come in! posted:

These are really hardcore players though. Diablo III is actually longer than Diablo II classic. More importantly, it's a hell of a lot more interesting.

That is why that guy needs four rares, he is really hardcore.

HERE LIES TEBOW
Jan 19, 2012



I said come in! posted:

These are really hardcore players though. Diablo III is actually longer than Diablo II classic. More importantly, it's a hell of a lot more interesting.

Are they just speed-running the story quests and avoiding anything optional?

Twatworth
Apr 5, 2012


Kiwi Bigtree posted:

Are they just speed-running the story quests and avoiding anything optional?

They are lying... eg.

quote:

My friend and I bought the game at the same time at the midnight launch, and it broke both of our dvd drives... We had both been using them yesterday, but now Neither of them work for anything. We tried re-installing the software the hardware, and even cleaning the lenses. They just don't recognize that there's any discs in either computer... We ended up having to download it :-(

Get it?

Underwhelmed
Mar 7, 2004

He took his vorpal sword in hand,
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thou

Bhaal posted:

I'm tempted to start a thread like "Post screenshots of your beta FoS in-game!" and reiterate in the OP that "this thread is just for us beta players to share our FoS that we earned sorry if that excludes some of you but we are proud of our beta achievement" and put that in a spot with high visability to the crybabies.

Do this, but only if you include something about the special beta super user servers that are still up through the outage for those that got all the FoSes


I honestly think it would be in everyone's best interests if Blizzard had just taken down the official forums for "maintenance" at the same time.

americanzero4128
Jul 20, 2009


quote:

This will probably be my last video game purchase. I hope it all works out.

Bash Ironfist
Aug 16, 2008



Oh my god, he won't ever play video games AGAIN! drat you Blizzard!

Twatworth
Apr 5, 2012


More lovely comp vault stuff.

quote:

after a few minutes of playing my screen turns black and turns off. its not my computer overheating because there is 6 fans in my laptop. i would just like to know what to do to stop this from happening

It runs wow though!

SpaceDrake
Dec 22, 2006

"... Vanessa? Let's keep this between us."
"My lips are sealed, milady."




"L'Arachide flies agaaaiiiin!"

quote:

IF YOU ARE CASUAL THEN DON'T READ. BUT IF YOU ARE A D2 RIDE OR DIE CRIP, READ THIS!

From http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/d...i/user-reviews. Astounding.

Underwhelmed
Mar 7, 2004

He took his vorpal sword in hand,
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thou

RPS boards are great too

Leandro posted:

Where are 4chan and Anonymous when we desperately need a DoS attack?


Sheng-ji posted:


Probably working on intercepting the stream so they can upload an offline only patch onto pirate bay

GUITAR VILLAIN
Jan 26, 2008

I have come here to play guitar and kick ass... and I'm all outta strings.


americanzero4128 quoting someone else posted:

This will probably be my last video game purchase. I hope it all works out.

Tell me about the old days, grandpa - what was it like when you still used to play videogames?

"Well son... that was before Blizzard betrayed us all by making a game that... uh... erm... well, it was actually pretty fun. In fact, once the servers levelled out, I kept on playing that game, and went on to buy several videogames after the fact. Some of them were even from Blizzard! What a silly youth I was!"

Oh, grandpa!

At least, this is what I hope will happen?

Twatworth
Apr 5, 2012


The measured and subtle approach:

quote:

1. You sticky not to use compatibility mode. Installer DOESN'T WORK in any shape of form until its run in windows xp sp3 mode. Welcome to 2012?
2. You install random trash on my computer hide it and don't even try to tell me in any reasonable fashion about it? Yeah I'm sure you did hide it somewhere deep deep down in some eula somewhere. Go screw yourself with tactics like that tho as far as I'm concerned thats not telling.
3. You make the game online only and it looks like NOTHING works any reasonably stable way.

Did you get EA infected? Or did you suddenly forget the point of beta testing? What in the world did you test exactly? Nothing works...
I don't want excuses... actions speak louder and so far its a FAIL BOAT... that's already sailing on horizon.
Im sure nobody of any importance will ever even see this and mods are irrelevant since all they do is slap your wrist if you don't keep it kiddie friendly but I still felt the need to say this about one of the last few, VERY few, developers that were still worth anything. Should I slap R.I.P. on Blizzards name and just treat every developer/publishers as if they were scum trying to rip me off before i even try?

Ron Paul 2012

Parker Lewis
Jan 4, 2006

Can't Lose

SpaceDrake posted:

From http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/d...i/user-reviews. Astounding.

D2 RIDE OR DIE CRIP is the funniest thing I read all day.

I'm not actually sure what kind of connection this person is trying to infer..

quote:

Tuesdays are WOW's server maintenance days and they chose today to launch Diablo III??? What was Blizzard thinking??? No wonder they couldn't handle the additional traffic. Whoever brain stormed the launch date; not anticipating the overload of traffic on battle.net servers should be beaten about the head, neck and shoulder area.

Parker Lewis fucked around with this message at May 15, 2012 around 21:02

Reiterpallasch
Nov 3, 2010

Five...more...minutes...

diabloplayers.txt posted:

!@#$ YOU I PAID 60 DOLLARS FOR THIS GARBAGE %^-*ING RIP OFFF. SERIOUSLY !@#$ING ASIANS AND EUROPEANS CAN PLAY THE %^-*ING GAME I CAN'T. NOT ONLY IS YOUR !@#$ING HQ IN THIS COUNTRY, BUT YOU MAJORITY OF PLAYERS ARE HERE. WhAT THE %^-*? I WENT TO THE MIDNIGHT RELEASE FOR NOTHING. WHY THE !@#$ DO YOU THINK ITS COOL O RELEASE A HALF ASSED GAME? Lemme play my %^-* !@#$%^-s, you guys are so *!@#ing good at taking money and not delivering any results. this is bull$%^- get you *!@#ing act together.

The maintenance thread on the official forums is moving absurdly fast.

Twatworth
Apr 5, 2012


Reiterpallasch posted:

The maintenance thread on the official forums is moving absurdly fast.

It is wall to wall brilliance, isn't it?

GUITAR VILLAIN
Jan 26, 2008

I have come here to play guitar and kick ass... and I'm all outta strings.


Reiterpallasch posted:

The maintenance thread on the official forums is moving absurdly fast.

What is it with all the casual racism going on in these threads we're pulling from? "THEM drat KOREANS AND ASIANS, BOY HOWDY."

Good god, man.

Twatworth
Apr 5, 2012


GUITAR VILLAIN posted:

What is it with all the casual racism going on in these threads we're pulling from? "THEM drat KOREANS AND ASIANS, BOY HOWDY."

Good god, man.

Wait for the 'I got banned for nothing' complaints from the racists.

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008

I never asked for this
lama, sheriff Truman.


diabloplayer.txt posted:

Diablo Brand and make a game thats make so match fun like minesweaper!

A diabloplayer finds a fair solution to server downtimes that should satisfy all involved parties:

diabloplayer.txt posted:

every 1h down -> 20 USd back

I AM CARVALLO
Apr 19, 2007

Head Kicker GOTY


The fans weigh in...

SaltLick
Oct 6, 2010



diabloplayers.txt posted:

This is getting freaking ridiculous, Blizzard! Took forever to get on when the servers went live at PDT Midnight, then they have been down for hours today, and then finally get in 30 minutes ago, and now they are going down again? What the hell are you guys doing? This is getting stupid real fast. Emergency maintenance has been going on since 10:30 PDT! And now you want to extend it again after you said it would be fine at 1:30p PDT! This is f' crap that you are feeding us. FIX YOUR GAME because you are getting to the point of pissing off A REALLY LARGE CHUCK of your player base. At this point I can tell you I will probably not return for Mists, because of the fact that this kind of thing is what we have to look forward to on releases and its tiring.

I swear I have never been so adamant about possibly returning a Blizzard game, then I am right now!

I guess he missed the part where shutting down the servers to apply fixes is in fact "fixing" the game. Oh and he won't buy the next WoW expansion! Oh nooooo!

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008

I never asked for this
lama, sheriff Truman.


diabloplayer.txt posted:

gl wit dat ges non of you read the turms of agreement even if you let your bank try to get your mony back you wont get it i pist to dat i cant play and i tink we sut be geting somting becas we arnt able to play like a exp boos and gangik item find boost ore sowe and a exsuse and dat day fick it fast becas wel i sid dis before lang dat it wut be a fayle wit ful survers and unforntaly i was rite but dat dusent meen day not trying to ficks it but i agree dat day understemadit the nubers of players

Eonwe
Aug 11, 2008

Disco Lovin' Barney


Underwhelmed posted:

RPS boards are great too


This makes a lot of sense. The servers are overloaded. Lets encourage a bunch of knuckledragging idiots to DDOS the Blizzard servers.



What is wrong with these people?

Transmetropolitan
Oct 21, 2011


All from the wonderful emergency maintenance thread (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5051765603)

In which Origin provides a better service, or not:

diabloplayers.txt posted:

this is just ridiculous blizz...ALL I WANT TO DO IS PLAY MY SINGLE PLAYER GAME...

and now it's going to be another 2 hours...then you'll add more time and more time...

did ea make this game or blizzard? i can't even tell anymore.

The Government of Quebec hates you too:

diabloplayers.txt posted:

so i finished workign at 23:00 last night at 5:15 i was at best buy to get the game (waiting in line till 8 caus its a quebec store .... stupid law) then i get back home play 2 hour maybe then BOOM ITS GONE ... i seriously hope for a compensation ....

poo poo just got real:

diabloplayers.txt posted:

This is bad, can not install. 99 minute wait on help line. Severs down. Does any one see class action lawsuits?

YEAH BLIZZARD PAY ME FOR MY OWN NEGLIGENCE!

diabloplayers.txt posted:

Ohhhh and i took a day off to play .... will blizzard REFUND my pay day lost caus i tought they were ready for that .... i dont think so i'd hope they did tho

Why do you do this to me? I thought we shared a deep connection here. Like, FOR REAL. I had a party and everything.

diabloplayers.txt posted:

I have always stood by Blizzard...but now, it's getting really hard. If they blow this off and don't do something for their consumers... man...what a slap in the face. I have to work 12 hour shifts for the next 2 days...I had friends over and had a party set up for this launch. I spent over 100 bucks getting the party together. This... is... bad. Blizzard had better compensate for my time and money lost.

Sounds that you have more problems than just not being able to play D3:

diabloplayers.txt posted:

ill be too drunk by then to be able to play D3....

I feel ya, man. Truly.

diabloplayers.txt posted:

ARARRGUGHGHGHGAHAHAAAAA

mr. nazi
Sep 25, 2004

Net contents 12 fluid oz.

SaltLick posted:

I guess he missed the part where shutting down the servers to apply fixes is in fact "fixing" the game. Oh and he won't buy the next WoW expansion! Oh nooooo!

I'm more worried about that REALLY LARGE CHUCK that blizzard has pissed off. Run!

Residency Evil
Jul 28, 2003

4/5 godo BRAINS


quote:

Make you all jealous, had 5 and a half hours playtime with no kids home! LOL

So jealous

fivegears4reverse
Apr 4, 2007
I'll shill for anything if I like it enough!

Eonwe posted:

This makes a lot of sense. The servers are overloaded. Lets encourage a bunch of knuckledragging idiots to DDOS the Blizzard servers.



What is wrong with these people?

Gamers are a vast and varied group of people dominated mostly by quiet folks who don't care enough to post on the internet about their videogames.

They are overshadowed by comparatively smaller numbers of Utterly loving Crazy People.

GUITAR VILLAIN
Jan 26, 2008

I have come here to play guitar and kick ass... and I'm all outta strings.


Palpek quoting another diabloplayer.txt posted:

gl wit dat ges non of you read the turms of agreement even if you let your bank try to get your mony back you wont get it i pist to dat i cant play and i tink we sut be geting somting becas we arnt able to play like a exp boos and gangik item find boost ore sowe and a exsuse and dat day fick it fast becas wel i sid dis before lang dat it wut be a fayle wit ful survers and unforntaly i was rite but dat dusent meen day not trying to ficks it but i agree dat day understemadit the nubers of players


I read the first four "words" of this post and honestly thought he was typing in German.

miscellaneous14
Mar 27, 2010

Take your hat medic.

EQUIP IT.


Wow, I think the user review page for the game on Metacritic literally just went down.

Red Harvest
Mar 13, 2007

Wait, it's Clint? Well shit.


GUITAR VILLAIN posted:

I read the first four "words" of this post and honestly thought he was typing in German.

I really tried but I just cannot understand the thrust of the argument here. How can you possibly type this badly and still speak the language?

5er
Jun 1, 2000



GUITAR VILLAIN posted:

I read the first four "words" of this post and honestly thought he was typing in German.

God I hope that person loses all his fingers in a lawnmower accident today. I swear I could feel my brainstem trying to break a vertebrae loose to beat the rest of my brain senseless, the more I read.

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InterFaced
Nov 2, 2004




Transmetropolitan posted:

Sounds that you have more problems than just not being able to play D3:

"I'll be too drunk to play D3"

Yeah that's pretty drunk. Its like being too drunk to go fishing.

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