did they change anything from the closed beta?  haven't played it in about 2 weeks.   But if it's the same, don't have much reason to play the first part of the game for the 5th time :P

It's a stress test beta alright. Service update happening right now. Log-in postponed...

Tea time!

@Seppli said:

It's a stress test beta alright. Service update happening right now. Log-in postponed...

Tea time!

It's Blizzzard. You need to add at least an hour to every time they quote.

Edit:Guess not. It's working.

Edit: And down already for maintenance

UGHHHHHH, MAINTENANCE. ANGER.

So... I guess I'll play a game of dota 2 and then try to log in again :)

My date is running late. She had better make up for it.

You'd think after all the experience they have with WoW and SC2 that this would go a bit smoother.

@Marz said:

did they change anything from the closed beta? haven't played it in about 2 weeks. But if it's the same, don't have much reason to play the first part of the game for the 5th time :P

It's exactly the same. Plus they just recently wiped the servers, so you can't even show off to new players with any of your fancy level 13 gear :P

@Sooty said:

You'd think after all the experience they have with WoW and SC2 that this would go a bit smoother.

Kinda weird, right?

I'm going to nudge in here as I also wait for the ability to log in.

All the people who whine on Twitter about the log in problems somehow amuse me. Do you really think you can log in the minute the open beta starts? I mean, come on, it's Diablo 3. Blizzard cannot brace its servers for impact enough.

Hopefully they aren't using the full capabilities of their servers, or if they are then clearly they need to do something about it before launch.

It's wayyyy better that this happens now so that it doesn't happen at launch.

Did Starcraft 2 have online issues at launch?

@GideonAmos said:

All the people who whine on Twitter about the log in problems somehow amuse me. Do you really think you can log in the minute the open beta starts? I mean, come on, it's Diablo 3. Blizzard cannot brace its servers for impact enough.

Why? They run WoW and Star Craft II. ...And frickin' WoW. They know what's up.

@RVonE: Well, the fact that they only made US servers available for pretty much the whole world to get in the open beta suggest they don't.

STATUS UPDATE:

I'm no longer getting an error message, but the connection keeps timing out.

I'm getting closer to playing! I think...

Oh cool, some other sad souls are with me, being unable to log in and all.

I got in! GREAT NEWS! I think I may have just saved $50, because my computer can't really run this game. I'm going to keep trying, though. I can run Starcraft II really smoothly, I expected to be able to run this...

I got to the point where they told me to make a battle code but ever since haven't been able to get in.

How much content is actually in this? Someone in this thread said it was an hour. Is it really that short? I would assume getting to level 13 would be at least 3 hours

@GideonAmos said:

@RVonE: Well, the fact that they only made US servers available for pretty much the whole world to get in the open beta suggest they don't.

Exactly. And that's crazy, right?

@BoG: How old is your computer? Because I too, can run SC2 pretty well, but not sure if my PC can pull off Diablo 3. TERA ran quite ok though.

I got in! GREAT NEWS! I think I may have just saved $50, because my computer can't really run this game. I'm going to keep trying, though. I can run Starcraft II really smoothly, I expected to be able to run this...

@BoG: Blizzard's never really been great at optimization. WoW only runs on as many setups as it does because it doesn't use any real particle or physics effects (in the GPU language sense). Their first foray into that kind of tech was with SC2, and D3 is full of it everywhere, so it's not the most well oiled machine.

@BoG: Really? That's strange that you can handle SC2 but not D3. How old is your hardware?

I'm in now too sweet.

You would expect that the developer of WoWo would know how to handle this...

@GideonAmos: @emem: I have a pretty new laptop. intel Core i-3 at 2.1 GHz, 6 GB RAM, and a video card... Radeon 6490M I think.

Keep getting disconnected.
 
Ah well, I'll play tonight then.

Dutifully hammering at Blizzard's Back-end. Getting nothing but Error 12, 37 and Battlenet disconnects thus far.

Getting disconnected... error 3003

@Aureoloss said:

How much content is actually in this? Someone in this thread said it was an hour. Is it really that short? I would assume getting to level 13 would be at least 3 hours

First run took me 2 hours 14 minutes.

Edit, that was as a barb, pretty much uninterrupted. Didn't really do any crafting in that period.

Edit #2, that wasnt level 13 either, finishing the beta content will land you on level 9 or 10 most likely, you need to run skeleton king a few times to hit 13.

If you are European and getting Error 3003, go into accounts and set your region to "Americas" (probably good to check for all Europeans either way), as there is no European open beta, afaik. :P

edit: Not that I'm in yet, but at least getting a server response now.

Still can't login...servers must be getting hit pretty hard.

Trying to download the client now. 40 kb/s with (what I thought was a) pretty good connection. Anyone else that has download speeds this slow?

Trying to download the client now. 40 kb/s with (what I thought was a) pretty good connection. Anyone else that has speeds this slow?

@Mnemoidian said:

If you are European and getting Error 3003, go into accounts and set your region to "Americas" (probably good to check for all Europeans either way), as there is no European open beta, afaik. :P

edit: Not that I'm in yet, but at least getting a server response now.

Yeah, thanks for the heads up. Kind of strange they don't have one for Europe. I mean, there's stress testing and then there's being kind of crazy. :P

@emem: I know... I just came home, saw this and started the download immediately! I knew I was kinda screwed but I didn't think it would be this bad. :P

Well, Blizzard said they are doing this for the weekend to stress test the servers. I'll be happier if all their shit crashes now, opposed to when the real game is released.

@emem: Well, they use peer-to-peer for the downloader/patcher, so should not be an issue, unless you have a service that rejects bittorrent-style connections.

@Scottish_Sin: Yeah, I've spent most of an hour reading up on "Error 3003" - apparently is also a random error that some people have gotten when: a) Their PC doesn't meet requirements. b) Their DNS doesn't connect properly to Diablo 3, c) Device Drivers are out of date ... and so on, before I found the suggestion to swap to Americas, and now I'm stuck at "Retrieving Hero Lists..." ;)

1.4 MB/s here, I'm hoping I don't run into any issues when I go to play.

@emem: Wow! That's really depressing... I hope they fix it untill tomorrow. : /

@Mnemoidian: Thanks I did that but now I"m getting an error 37. Is it a problem that I downloaded the EU client? Should I uninstall and dl the US one?

What in the f.

It finally does something other than telling me the servers are busy and it says my account doesn't have a Diablo 3 license attached to it.

I always get the "You have been disconnected from the Battle.net service" message. Hmhm, it doesn't look like I've ever been connected.

shhh dont say that or i will never get in servers to busy

@phrosnite said:

Downloaded, installed but can't log in. Maybe it's really a bug. Pity, I wanted for confirm that I wouldn't enjoy the game.

the game works fine the servers are just busy. it had a different error message before 12pdt but since it live now its just busy

Cool, the installer crashed when choosing a folder.

That's enough trying to log in for now. Will try later on tonight, hoping it runs ok on my MacBook Pro.