The Diablo 3 servers in the European and Asian regions have gone live, and thousands of gamers are rushing to sign in only to experience some major problems. Asian gamers with the Digital copy of Diablo 3 are seeing “Error 12” which means that no licence is attached. To resolve that error GMs have been flagging each account so they can enjoy the game.
Bashiok, a Community Manager for Diablo 3 had this to say, “Due to some account complexities that affect Korea and Taiwan accounts we’re running into some very specific issues that are producing this error. We believe we’ve nailed the last of them down and are working on a solution. Knock on wood but these specific account complexities are unique to the Asia region, and shouldn’t affect the Europe or Americas launches.”
In Europe players players are seeing “Error 37” which basically means the login servers are over capacity, that is to be expected. However some players are seeing “Error 75” which indicates a temporary Battle.Net outage.
On Error 37 Bashiok had this to say, “EU is live, and the service is looking solid except there are more people attempting to log in than the system can process (which is a lot), which results in an Error 37.”
When asked about Error 75 he says,”Yeah I spoke too soon, there’s a ton of people in-game playing already but the initial rush caused something to melt on the initial login/authentication service.”
The North American servers will go live at 12:00PDT. If you dont have a copy of Diablo 3, or you don’t plan to pick one up yet. Just Push Start is holding a contest to give away some guest passes. Stay tuned to this post here
Chris
May 14, 2012 at 9:55 PMAre you all retarded? ALL of the servers don’t go live until midnight PST
Sean K
May 14, 2012 at 10:58 PMI’m playing on the EU servers from US right now. Come again?
J
May 14, 2012 at 11:08 PMSean K how are you doing that, I tried changing it in the options and it just says this battle.net account does not have assigned etc etc etc
pz
May 15, 2012 at 12:14 AM@ J
you need a physical copy of the game, and you can set your region to Europe.
Fairly sure it does not work with digital download, but you can try. In the options on left of login, should be account management that has the option to change region.
Goodbrew
May 15, 2012 at 12:36 AMIf only there was a way to play single player offline, the servers wouldn’t be over loaded, and people who paid $60 and waited years would be able to enjoy the game.
Paul
May 15, 2012 at 1:02 AMYeah.. Not going to buy it until Blizzard gets a head-from-rectum-ectomy and allows single player offline… I do not do online games as they tend to suck the life out of you and I have much better things to do with the little free time I actually do have. I wouldn’t mind a couple hours of single player D3 so long as I could do it at my own pace, didn’t have to be online, and had a game that would still be viable long after blizzard takes the servers down. Going online to play single player D3 would be about as dumb as Blizzard is for forcing it… And that is pretty friggin stupid.
dza1994
May 15, 2012 at 1:41 AMI believe Blizzard’s reason for forcing online on the game was to “prevent pirating.”
…even though that same downloader ended up letting people pirate the hell out of SC2.
I guess the only real reason they’d do it is because of the newly implemented Auction House. It would make sense that even lone players would want to buy from the auction house from people they will never play the game with.
What doesn’t make sense is why they can’t just leave that off if people want to truly enjoy a single player experience anywhere on the go. If you have bad internet, or no internet, you can’t truly enjoy the game. Not only that, but you have to depend solely on latency for every move you make (whereas any offline RPG would have blows connect naturally).
I honestly can’t find anything dumber than a company that tells people that they have to play an RPG game on the internet. RPGs are MEANT to be enjoyed fully offline, especially for veteran gamers (Diablo 1 and Diablo 2, among other games) who wanted the challenge of staying up one night at -insert friend’s house here- and playing up the entire game alone without any worry of having to suck up his buddy’s bandwidth.
This is an awful business decision for Blizzard. This alongside the very fact that D3, after years upon years of so called ‘effort’ built into the game, doesn’t feel nearly as absolutely fresh as it should like D1 and D2 did. It’s just like when LK went into Cataclysm. Nothing really changed. There’s just more eye candy and a really desperate attempt for more money so they can continue to make terrible decisions on a once legendary series of games.
Matt
May 15, 2012 at 3:08 AMYa know… everyone bitched a fit about the exact same thing with Starcraft II. Yet ya’all still bought it. Except of course for the folks that are too good to submit to the future of the failing industry … but then again, if that’s the case then why are you here?
Slicker
May 15, 2012 at 8:53 AMI played in Europe during midnight launch last night for about 2-3 hours. The servers popped down for like 10-15 minutes. I logged in and before playing 1 SC2 match the servers were back up.
All these articles of the servers melting is a bit overstated. And if you seriously cant handle 15 minutes of downtime then you shouldnt think twice about playing online games.
DaJuan Harris
May 15, 2012 at 9:09 AMYou may have been able to get in right away, but a lot of players were seeing “Error 75” which is an outage of Battle.Net.
Andrew
May 17, 2012 at 2:01 PMIm hopeing im not the only one in America who has the error 12, i fear it could be hard to solve if people believe it’s only for Asia, if anyone can help it would be appreciated greated for i do not have knowlodge or forums to and where to complain to.