By on 25 Apr, 2012 at 10:15 AM
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It Took A Lot Of People To Break The Diablo III Servers

It Took A Lot Of People To Break The Diablo III Servers

Just last weekend, we all had the amazing opportunity to try out Diablo III for ourselves, with an open beta allowing anyone with a valid Battle.Net account to jump in on the hack and slash RPG action. Well, most people could at least. I was able to log on after a few hours spent fix some client issues, and I know a lot of other people who also got the chance to try it. However, I also know a lot of people couldn’t try at all, due to the servers basically crashing.

The whole idea of this open beta weekend was to stress test the Diablo III servers before release, and boy did Blizzard get their stress test alright. Thousands were unable to play the beta at all, due to server crashes preventing the game download, logging in and more. But how many people exactly did it take for the servers to get to this stage? Well, 300 000 odd apparently.

Now, that is a lot of people. Like really a lot, so it’s no real surprise that the servers did what they did. Many may still say that Blizzard’s servers should’ve been prepared for such a huge stress, but isn’t that what these beta’s are for. You see, now Blizzard can look back and say, “Well, we couldn’t handle 300 000 in the beta, so let’s fix that before launch.”

Diablo III will be available come May 15th on PC.

Source: Kotaku

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  • reV

     ”Their defenses are broken… let the slaughter begin!” – Megatron, Transformers: The Movie (1986)

  • VegOtter

    Cool article, just one small thing.

    “You see, know Blizzard can look back and say”.  It should be *now.  Just FYI.

    • http://egamer.co.za/ Azhar Amien

      Thanks for pointing that out :) Forgive Alessandro for his error. Seeing as how he grew up as a primitive fisherman and is now a convict (skinhead), he never quite learned to read or write properly. He’s still grasping the English language. But we don’t discriminate. We accept everyone. :D?

    • http://www.facebook.com/nanonyous Theo Lubbe

       *getting to grips with

      If he were ‘still grasping’, that would indicate he’d have a firm hold of the language already and is maintaining that grip. /metagrammartrolling

    • http://egamer.co.za/ Azhar Amien

      Oh fudge.

    • VegOtter

      oh snap

    • VegOtter

      oh snap

  • kluch

    COME AT ME MAY15TH

  • http://www.facebook.com/nanonyous Theo Lubbe

     I got a lot of playing in this weekend, and it worked better than expected. It’s also always worth noting that not all of Blizzard’s servers will have been used for the open beta – you use a specific preset of to determine what ratio of players you can have to a ratio of resources.

    The game is likely to have literally millions trying to play during the first two weeks. I suspect that during that time, the game is going to be largely unplayable, and that they’re going to have to get more hardware up and running for things to even out again.