Man, what is it with these servers lately?

[BucketOMerriment]

So I log into my werebear sidecharacter and want to finish Diablo on normal. Right before I hit the fifth seal "your connection has been interrupted". Then I can't seem to create or join any games with that character.

Ok, so, I decide to live with it, and decide to log in my main char and finish up Hell Ancients. It's about time, I figure, I'm 83 and I've just been doing pit and meph runs for a while. So, I'm literally right outside the Arreat summit, boom, "your connection has been interrupted" and now I can't create or join games with that character.

This seems to happen all the time. Why is it that once you're dropped from a game you can't seem to be able to play that character for 30+ minutes?

[MeNTaIPaTleNT]

30 for u???? i wait 5 minutes and i can create/join games again...i dunno sumthin stupid with the servers once it drops u it messes up for a little i guess

[rykuss]

Some nights/days are worse than others for me, mostly Friday night through Sunday evening. I'm guessing more people online then clogging the servers etc;. Lately though, it's been very difficult to just create a game in general. I go through dozens of "Failed to join" screens during my runs which i do in a xxxxxx5 through xxxxxx manner. It's not uncommon to get 2 "failed to join" screens in-between each game. It's been like this for the last 4 days now.:thumbsdown:

[theredpredator]

Havent had one failure to join a game tonight.

Played like 150 runs

[Omikron8]

east is falling apart quickly

frequent connection interrupted

multiple freeze + speed up lag in each game

nearly unplayable (350+ ping) on weekday evenings and most of weekend

supposedly blizzard has been reducing the # of servers which would not surprise me due to the age of this game and they want everyone to move over to their cash cow (WoW)

and then there's the wonderful dupers too, east goes to crap in a few months at the same time that high runes drop in value huge, what a funny coincidence...