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The Retail DVD will NOT install. The update agent always gets stuck and I've tried every solution posted. It's a major networking clusterfuck on the part of the idiots who coded it.
Unbelievable.
To anyone who hasn't bought it. DON'T. You won't be able to install the fucking thing, let alone try and play it.
Not trolling, just a good ol' fashioned "told ya so" to all those fanboys who were blaming all the issues during the open stress test weekend on the fact that it was beta and a stress test, and claiming that everything would be fine at release. You know who you are.
Krovven wrote on May 16, 2012, 04:50:Redundancy would solve that. Whatever the problem was, there was a way to help reduce or prevent it. A longer more massive stress test probably would have found it.
And do you know what caused the outages? Most likely hardware failure. You can test and test and test...something will always fail and have to be replaced.
Wowbagger_TIP wrote on May 16, 2012, 03:05:
Not trolling, just a good ol' fashioned "told ya so" to all those fanboys who were blaming all the issues during the open stress test weekend on the fact that it was beta and a stress test, and claiming that everything would be fine at release. You know who you are.
Having to deal with losing progress in a single-player game because some server puked or your net connection got screwy for a minute is just really really stupid.
Bhruic wrote on May 16, 2012, 00:20:I'm pretty sure "no guarantee of server availability" wasn't a bullet-point on the box. If you don't know about it at the time of purchase, then you should certainly be offered a refund.
As long as they had "internet connection required", and "no guaruntee of server availability", they're almost certainly fine.
Zanthar wrote on May 15, 2012, 17:39:An offline mode where characters can never go online would have had no effect on the security of the online game. It would, however, have allowed people to play the game they paid 60 bucks for.
I can live with the server downtime if it stops all the damn cheating and duping in the previous games. Only time will tell if that's the case though.
Krovven wrote on May 15, 2012, 17:12:Not trolling, just a good ol' fashioned "told ya so" to all those fanboys who were blaming all the issues during the open stress test weekend on the fact that it was beta and a stress test, and claiming that everything would be fine at release. You know who you are.MadBoris wrote on May 15, 2012, 16:53:
What may be stranger still, is that there is still a horde of Blizz fanboys still actively dismissing issues on the D3 boards, aggressively at those that bring up the obvious. It's like a blind cult.
Then there is polar opposite folks that are bitching and trolling the boards when they didn't even buy the game. You balance each other out.
Krovven wrote on May 16, 2012, 02:16:You mean since they announced that global region playing isn't enabled yet so you are stuck in your own region right now?
You know you can just play on the Euro servers...
This isn't a case of not liking a particular feature. This is a case of not being able to play the game you paid for due to developer/publisher incompetence. Granted, the game's only been out for a day but it's still unacceptable.
This isn't a case of not liking a particular feature. This is a case of not being able to play the game you paid for due to developer/publisher incompetence. Granted, the game's only been out for a day but it's still unacceptable.
Cutter wrote on May 15, 2012, 23:01:
None of it works becase the installer won't patch on certain 64 bit Vista/Win7 systems. It just hangs and won't update anything. So even if you could DL the full client the moment the updater starts you're fucked. And they've know this for a while now. That's just not dropping the ball, that's just shitting on customers.
Dev wrote on May 15, 2012, 22:41:Wraith wrote on May 15, 2012, 19:41:Thats why you don't use the retail DVD. You put the code into your battle.net account and download it. Retail boxes are a waste anyway IMHO.
Jesus Christ, what a piece of shit.
Here's a clue, Blizzard. Have some software engineers worth a damn who can code an update agent which isn't an exercise in engineering incompetence.
The Retail DVD will NOT install. The update agent always gets stuck and I've tried every solution posted. It's a major networking clusterfuck on the part of the idiots who coded it.
Unbelievable.
To anyone who hasn't bought it. DON'T. You won't be able to install the fucking thing, let alone try and play it.
I'm not excusing blizzard here, the online only SP is crazy, and having servers offline for 4 hours for a promised 1 hour maintenance, they shoulda done more OPEN stress testing, and they shoulda invested in enough servers for the known pre-order demand trends. I'm just saying there's ways around using the dvd.
Jerykk wrote on May 15, 2012, 22:26:Orogogus wrote on May 15, 2012, 22:08:ASeven wrote on May 15, 2012, 21:59:Prez wrote on May 15, 2012, 21:44:
I can understand being pissed about not being able to play your game in Singleplayer because of some shit with the servers you have no interest in being connected to (which is mainly why I am not buying D3), but let's have some perspective here. Lawsuits? Really? Do we really need to clog up our already completely borked legal system with lawsuits over a game? How about we save our litigation for things like medical malpractice and negligence resulting in injury or destruction of property?
Truth be told, sometimes the way to force change of the good kind is to go litigious on their asses.
When there's real harm being done, or the company is abusing a monopoly position. This seems more like initiating a lawsuit against a developer because you don't like quick time events, or the default field of view, or menus that aren't mouse-friendly enough. The way to force change here is to get people not to buy the game. It's not like Blizzard has the kind of stranglehold that Microsoft or Apple has. What case is there to be made here?
This isn't a case of not liking a particular feature. This is a case of not being able to play the game you paid for due to developer/publisher incompetence. Granted, the game's only been out for a day but it's still unacceptable.
Wraith wrote on May 15, 2012, 19:41:Thats why you don't use the retail DVD. You put the code into your battle.net account and download it. Retail boxes are a waste anyway IMHO.
Jesus Christ, what a piece of shit.
Here's a clue, Blizzard. Have some software engineers worth a damn who can code an update agent which isn't an exercise in engineering incompetence.
The Retail DVD will NOT install. The update agent always gets stuck and I've tried every solution posted. It's a major networking clusterfuck on the part of the idiots who coded it.
Unbelievable.
To anyone who hasn't bought it. DON'T. You won't be able to install the fucking thing, let alone try and play it.
Orogogus wrote on May 15, 2012, 22:08:ASeven wrote on May 15, 2012, 21:59:Prez wrote on May 15, 2012, 21:44:
I can understand being pissed about not being able to play your game in Singleplayer because of some shit with the servers you have no interest in being connected to (which is mainly why I am not buying D3), but let's have some perspective here. Lawsuits? Really? Do we really need to clog up our already completely borked legal system with lawsuits over a game? How about we save our litigation for things like medical malpractice and negligence resulting in injury or destruction of property?
Truth be told, sometimes the way to force change of the good kind is to go litigious on their asses.
When there's real harm being done, or the company is abusing a monopoly position. This seems more like initiating a lawsuit against a developer because you don't like quick time events, or the default field of view, or menus that aren't mouse-friendly enough. The way to force change here is to get people not to buy the game. It's not like Blizzard has the kind of stranglehold that Microsoft or Apple has. What case is there to be made here?
ASeven wrote on May 15, 2012, 21:59:Prez wrote on May 15, 2012, 21:44:
I can understand being pissed about not being able to play your game in Singleplayer because of some shit with the servers you have no interest in being connected to (which is mainly why I am not buying D3), but let's have some perspective here. Lawsuits? Really? Do we really need to clog up our already completely borked legal system with lawsuits over a game? How about we save our litigation for things like medical malpractice and negligence resulting in injury or destruction of property?
Truth be told, sometimes the way to force change of the good kind is to go litigious on their asses.