Diablo IV’s beta launch is a nightmare
Start open beta Diablo IV It was Friday, March 17th, from 5 p.m. And, as with Blizzard Entertainment, the early hours will be… complicated.
It was a pleasure to get all of us into the open beta launch of our Diablo IVAfter years of waiting. Hostilities was scheduled to begin on Friday, March 17, at 5pm French time (for those who pre-ordered the game). Two of us on the editorial board tried to launch a game at the advertised time and problems soon arrived…
I was able to personally embark on the adventure around 5:15pm, hoping the hike would continue. It ended after a quarter of an hour, with the connection to the servers being lost and it being impossible to restart the game immediately. After quitting and restarting Diablo IVAnd I was told to queue 40 minutes. Julian, for his part, had to wait 50 minutes to finally get access to the entire gameplay… live on Twitch.
It will take patience to play the Diablo IV beta
We’re clearly not the only ones having problems (we wish that was the case). On Twitter, you can already find testimonials from players who suddenly broke up in the middle of the game, losing their progress (and the long minutes it took to create their dream character).
” I got to the first dungeon and the game crashed. I logged back in, and my character is no longer there. I got back in line with an 80 minute wait Lamentations Skull. Amauri replete: I played for about 10 minutes until I got to a village, then presto, deco, and lo and behold, there it is, reconnaissance… (I gave up). Others are already ironing, like Dan Carlyon :” So… who has the longest waiting list? »
It’s really frustrating to be able to savor a few minutes Diablo IV before being promptly sidelined. Should we blame Blizzard Entertainment? Yes and no. No, because it is still beta and therefore a test environment for the servers in order to offer the best possible launch (in June). Yes, because the company usually has experience with beta versions that can gather a lot of fans. Each time, it’s the same story and the early hours are chaotic. ” Blizzard’s classic launch day queue, first Overwatch 2, and now Diablo IV he explains spify. We’ll still remember that this early access pays in a way because you must have pre-ordered the game to take advantage of it.
Blizzard Entertainment has already anticipated the complaints, and reported on Tweet :” If you are playing the Diablo IV beta, keep in mind that development is not complete and you may encounter bugs and issues. »
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