Hello? Anyone still working at this place? What happened to this so called “short term” solution actually being short term, not leaning towards permanent?
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tbh based on the current situation, future release of D4 wont get blizz anywhere. sigh
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I can’t believe that this company is unable to solve a server problem on a 20 year old game. How to turn a company that was among the best video game developers into a joke. In other businesses when you charge people money for something that doesn’t work, it’s called a scam…
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Such accusations usually have to be proven in court, you know. 
Daily bump for good measure
I swear, the complainers on this forum must all be 8 years old and making their first purchase with their allowance, because in the real world, products are disappointing all the time and most of them cost a lot more than a video game. Yes it sucks and they’re taking forever but a scam? Please. I’ve dealt with faulty car brakes or a collapsing roof with less histrionics than this. If it were a real scam you’d be contesting the charge through your bank.
As for solving server problems, the servers being old makes it harder, not easier. Any software consultant will tell you that if you hear the phrase “needs to support legacy servers” you multiply your price estimate by at least 5. Some Blizzard fans really baffle me, yelling and screaming about how Activision is a big evil company boohoo, while at at the same time demanding a level of immediate service that only large corporations can possibly deliver. It honestly reminds me of how drug addicts think.
Blizzard needs much better transparency and community outreach to avoid catastrophic launches like this in the future, but the server devs have zero control over that.
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busy on a 14day coffe brake
I wish somebody take a lead and bring a claim to court.
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Doubt threats and such will solve much for any parties involved, but it is within everyones right to actually demand communication or a solution to said problem, since we have paid for the product, now how long that may take or how long will be considered acceptable is another story, and we as customers do lack the facts to make assumptions.
Then again, since nothing is being said, like progress, expected timeframe, NOTHING, of course Blizzard will be meet with outrage.
Prepare for WC3R v. 2.0 
They won’t gonna fix/change anything.
They sure give no reason to think otherwise
I completely agree that they should be communicating more, but there is a paradox with PR around highly technical problems, which is that the only people who understand the problem are needed full-time to fix it.
I would much rather hear an apology from the executives for soiling their pants on the launch than drag some network dev away from their work to explain the elaborate distributed profiling they’re doing on 3 thousand lines of TCP/IP spaghetti C++ from 2001.
Yep, they should ask CDPR for pointers on how to handle a scuffed launch