This is Pathetic

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Hey all, I never post in forums but this is simply outrageous?

Just decided to replay all the lore from Diablo games in anticipation of Diablo 4… Lo and behold I cant even play because of ‘‘only party leader can start the game’’ message on my start button.
Okay, I do some research, scan and repair, reinstall, clear cache etc. Same problem. Also I just bought the necromancer pack and was very excited to try it as I miss diablo 2 dearly. Blizzard, honestly, I been your customer since rock and roll racing and viking games… How can you not fix such a detrimental issue?

Disappointed Customer.

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I googled ‘diablo 3 only available to party leader’

Lots of post about the issue.
One solution was:
"Ran into the same issue today when starting Diablo 3 and getting the “Cannot start a game, only available to party leader”, yet I had just started the game and hadn’t played in over 24 hours.

Long story short, all I had to do was select a different hero (character), Start a game with that hero, then close that game and select the hero that had been locked - bingo, it was all back to normal."

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Hello, yeah I have tried different characters, different regions, different modes… Its all the same outcome.

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Try and make a seasonal hero, even if you won’t play season.
Maybe there are other solutions if you look at other google results?

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https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d3/search?q="party%20leader"%20%23technical-support%20order%3Alatest

And in almost all of those threads you’d find my response…

Error 315000 - Chat Silence - Only available to party leader

There are two scenarios for this.

First…
It’s a temporary bug which can usually be resolved by switching to another hero and then back to the one you wanted to play on, changing which pet the hero has selected, and so on. Alternatively, closing and re-starting the client should resolve it.

Second…
If you’ve received an in-game chat silence penalty from any Blizzard game.

There is a long outstanding bug (since October 2019) whereby if you receive a chat silence from any Blizzard game, you will be unable to start or join a Diablo III game session. This will last until the silence period is over.

If you have received a chat silence, you will have been sent an email to your registered address with an explanation of why the silence was issued, and how long the penalty period will last. For a first offence, it’s 24 hours. For subsequent offences, the penalty period doubles each time, i.e.

Offence Silence (Days) Silence (Months)
1st 1 Day
2nd 2 Days
3rd 4 Days
4th 8 Days
5th 16 Days
6th 32 Days 1 Month 2 Days
7th 64 Days 2 Months 4 Days
8th 128 Days 4 Months 8 Days
9th 256 Days 8 Months 16 Days
10th 512 Days 17 Months 2 Days

…and so on.

If you believe you were incorrectly silenced…
Appealing a Silence, Suspension, or Ban

If the penalty was correctly applied…

While it is theoretically possible for us to unmute players which might work around this, we’re not in the practice of reversing these kinds of account actions for this sort of reason. Regardless of this unexpected behavior, the accounts which have been muted were muted for a reason. If you have an extended duration suspension, a user of your account must have broken our terms of use several times. As such, the account actions will stand until they expire.

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Same Issue dont think ive been silenced no email and never play public games but its a hell of a note that they can keep me from playing a game I paid for just one more reason i wont be buying d4 unless it comes out with an offline mode

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Battle.Net and D3 were in maintenance… that has now ended… try it now.

Please don’t necro old threads… create a new one if you can’t find a recent one.

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