This was exacerbated by an upgrade we released earlier in the day in order to improve the performance of games. The two things together led to a massive overload on D2R Ladder Items our global database that caused it to be slow to out. We took the decision to roll back the Friday update we'd previously deployed hoping to ease the load on the servers leading into Sunday while also allowing us time to explore the root cause."

As it turned out, it wasn't enough. Sunday saw an even higher number of users and the servers were again smashed. On Monday, they were again down. The link above is lengthy and extremely detailed in its explanation of the reason for this happening.

However, specifically Blizzard attribute the problem to the old code used in making and joining games and also reading characters from the database. "We have optimized this service in multiple ways to be more modern technology, but as we've previously stated many of our issues stem from the creation of games," says the post.

This is the point where we can move to player behavior.

"We talk about'modern game behavior", as it's an interesting point to think about. As of 2001 there weren't as much information available on internet on what it takes to play Diablo II 'correctly' (Baal is available for XP or Pindleskin/Ancient sewers for finding the magical item, etc.).

Today, however any new player can find any number of fantastic content creators who will teach them how to take part in different ways, some with a lot of database load for creating.

loading, and then destroying games in rapid succession. Though we did foresee this-with players making fresh characters on new servers, striving to D2R Ladder Items Buy obtain their treasure-hunting tools, we underestimated the amount we could have gained from our beta testing. "Basically you're too expert and videogame guides can be blamed. (You can read on best Diablo 2 builds guide here.)