Mondays maintenance: new ladder or sorely needed lag fix??! der=0

[Fearlessone]

You prob read on the home page about the maintenance. It said "all realms" at the same time on Monday.

So when we log in then, will we miraculously have no more of these damnationable* lag spikes?? Or a new ladder (nearly 13 months since last reset). Or both??

Today the realms were nearly unplayable, ESPECIALLY here in classic. I've posted a number of times over the past 2 months about this, here on classic forum, on community and over at battle.net. In the games I'm in there is considerable comment, but it's not translating to do anything about it. One guy said "people rarely go to the forums, why bother?" Well, how else are u going to get better play unless u complain to someone about it? Blizzard seems to be out-of-contact with day-to-day play here anyway. Those guys all have been building, playing and testing Diablo 3 for 2 1/2 years plus.

*damned is a legal swear word here in this game, I would gather...:lol:

[Classics]

It could easily be niether. And yes, we all know that the lag was absolutely disgusting today. And more then that, it was universal lag. Meaning that all users experienced it, including the ones on my friend's list in other games. As for the maitenence, you can only hope that it's for the next ladder. Of course people blab about how Blizzard will give a warning, but then again, 1.10 just randomly came out one day. As for me, I believe the lag will naturally go away, and god damn well hope for the next ladder. But it's merely hope!

[Fearlessone]

It could easily be niether. And yes, we all know that the lag was absolutely disgusting today. And more then that, it was universal lag. Meaning that all users experienced it, including the ones on my friend's list in other games. As for the maitenence, you can only hope that it's for the next ladder. Of course people blab about how Blizzard will give a warning, but then again, 1.10 just randomly came out one day. As for me, I believe the lag will naturally go away, and god damn well hope for the next ladder. But it's merely hope!
Tonite was the worst yet. Thats what everyone was saying. I think its the worst I've seen bnet since they fixed one of the duping sprees 2 1/2 years ago. I joined an LoD game and they had a lag spike or two. But it was so bad on my realm in classic, that at one point there was only ONE GAME up. Everyone left. It was only good for leveling up mules and such.

The fact that they are bringing down all the realms at once is odd, they usually do maintenance on one realm at a time, it takes 1-3 hours then. If they are resetting the ladder, then they will need to bring down all realms at one time. If they do maintenance all at once, it seems they are afraid of hacks from one realm to the next...? Wouldn't be surprising, remember the day when 1.10 first came out, all those lvl 82++'s within 4 hours on the ladder :lol: :lol: :lol: Weren't those guys ppl who had converted to LoD from 1.09 classic and found themselves in the 1.10 LoD new ladder realm?? I heard lots of juicy items made their way into the ladder that way, but was so busy questing with my new char, never got a confirmation on that.

It's hard not to be cruel around this game, with buggaboos like that. Did u hear about the guy in the Off Topic forum who has like 6,000 posts and posted this huge long review of the War of the Worlds film? He gets to the part where Tom Cruise enters Boston about late October of the year and says: " and it was cold there and that killed the aliens, at least that's what it looked like to me..." or something like that. He must be prime material for the next patch around here. :teeth:

[fredsta54]

It could easily be niether. And yes, we all know that the lag was absolutely disgusting today. And more then that, it was universal lag. Meaning that all users experienced it, including the ones on my friend's list in other games. As for the maitenence, you can only hope that it's for the next ladder. Of course people blab about how Blizzard will give a warning, but then again, 1.10 just randomly came out one day. As for me, I believe the lag will naturally go away, and god damn well hope for the next ladder. But it's merely hope!

yes. While playing w/ you yesterday, there was lag when everythign stopped moving... several times. It was awful. I got a r/d every 1/2 hour at least.


New ladder... my god. That would be excellent.





Fred

[newerest]

...Or maybe, they are deleteing all items and characters! *gasp*

[SwampBox]

LaDdEr ReSeT OmfG!!1!!

[Murrogh]

LaDdEr ReSeT OmfG!!1!!

I'll keep my fingers crossed... but I wouldn't hold my breath. :uhhuh:

[Dacar92]

While a ladder reset would do wonders to the popularity of the game, and would bring many people back to the game for a while, why do you all want a reset so badly?

[magnet]

well..

for the same reason bill gates can't have fun playing penny ante poker..

[Fearlessone]

... why do you all want a reset so badly?
Not me...but then again, it would be interesting to take a few of my current ladder chars back into the old realm, which incidentally is dominated by players from the 1st ladder season. The pre 1.10's seem to be in recession there. What I badly want is a lag fix.

**News Flash** I just received a secret tiding from someone "in-the-know" about how Blizzard North got its staffing for the patch. The secret tiding follows.

Secret Tiding:

At the end of the 2002-03 schoolyear, Blizzard, eager to finally complete its long ballyhooed patch, but still cost conscious, scoured the local high schools for talent. On June 17th they entered San Mateo High School. Unfortunately, school had been out for nearly a week, and the only people on the premises were the Principal, secretary, janitor and a lone student. He was found sitting on a small wooden chair in the corner of one classroom, with a cone on his head. "Eureka, we have found our man!" And the rest is patch history...

[weep]

yes this lag is very annoying, my friend lost 4 clean rare helms over 200 soj value in scnl west after a game dropped in which we were transfering in and i was like 2 seconds away (i grabbed before game dropped) of losing my friends 17/30/20 36/36/57/36 9% dtm bone.. it's not even safe to drop items for a few seconds.

[newerest]

*coughs* trade window xfer *cough*