Blizzard almost pulled it off: launching an online game, specifically a Diablo game, without server problems.<\/p>\n
Alas, it was not to be.<\/p>\n
Diablo IV\u2019s early access release on Friday morning<\/strong><\/a> was smooth except for some hiccups on PlayStation and Xbox involving households where multiple players share the same console.<\/p>\n Blizzard later experienced some login server issues in North America during the early access launch weekend.<\/p>\n The early access phase was available to players who paid $20 or \u20ac20 more (around R400) for a Digital Deluxe version of the game, which also includes extra cosmetic items and access to the first seasonal Premium Battle Pass.<\/p>\n (Blizzard has assured that it will not sell power and that the Premium Battle Pass will only include cosmetic items.)<\/p>\n With Diablo IV\u2019s official launch on Tuesday (01:00 on 6 June 2023, South Africa time), complaints of long server queues from North America started streaming in.<\/p>\n We tested the game around 06:30 and did not experience any queues at Blizzard\u2019s European servers. Several other South African players also reported being able to play without problems today.<\/p>\n However, it should be noted that it was evening in North America when Diablo IV launched, and many more people would\u2019ve been able to play.<\/p>\n It remains to be seen whether Europe\u2019s servers hold up tonight.<\/p>\n Blizzards\u2019s global community development director for Diablo IV, Adam Fletcher, acknowledged the issue on Twitter.<\/p>\n \u201cWe see the login\/server issues. Team is on it,\u201d he said<\/a><\/strong> just before 09:00 SAST.<\/p>\n Around two hours later, he said, \u201cSeeing some improvement but team is still continue [sic] to work through the night on the issues.\u201d<\/p>\n Goodbye Error 37. Hello Error 300008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":494417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9],"tags":[11535,86961,9876,86849],"class_list":["post-494979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","category-gaming","tag-activision-blizzard","tag-adam-fletcher","tag-blizzard","tag-diablo-iv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNow read: Diablo IV launch day review<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"