Developers come on. You are blaming people for creating multiple game instances, but that’s what Diablo 2 made of - G R I N D. You create a game => Run Baal => Kick his insect ass => new game. (you can place any bossname instead of baal)
I got you, you have over 9000 empty servers. Then why don’t you just GET RID OF THEM. Literally i ve created a game named X in the morning, to make a NM andy run. Then i ve made another one to play with my buddies. We finished in about 4 hrs after and i tried to create a game with the name X to go smash another andy. And you know what? THERE WAS A GAME WITH THIS NAME. So i mean my old game room stayed empty for more than four HOURS. I ve joined and yes - was the same room with same password. Are you serious? Of course your servers will crush, you are running THOUSANDS or even millions EMPTY game rooms noone will join again.
Props:
- Force shutdown an empty game within 5 minutes. If someone is using it to transfer items when there are a shared stash - let him lose his stuff, he’s an idiot for sure.
2)Restart the whole ecosystem at least once a day. In a fixed time with floating 10-15 minutes to avoid dupes.
3)If you can’t detect a game with 0 players - please consider going to HR and making urself fired. Then go find another job. MCdonalds & Uber are right choices.