Does anyone know if its impossible to use the waypoint to go back to previous acts like you could in Diablo II? I can't seem to teleport back to New Tristram. Do I have to take the caravan back?

Can't help you there, i'm still at act I. Could have been much further on if I could play the game

I figured it out, you have to leave the game and then "choose quest" and go back to Act I manually through the logon menu... That's really dumb if you ask me.

Edit; about being online at all times through Battle.net; this would work fine of the servers had the capacity... has Blizzard learned nothing from their years and years of WoW, Starcraft and Diablo online? Come on, if you're gonna force everyone to be connected to your servers at all times, at least make sure you have enough server capacity.

finally managed to logon and playing again with my Witch Doctor on the EU server. I'm not login off forever

Been logged in all day, had to reset the modem and router since they're both pieces of shit and now I can't log back in... Awesome!

Im always suprised that people seem so quick to blame capacity as the reason the servers are having an issue.  From someone who supports large infrastructure for similar applications, 9 times out of 10 its the application that has issues, not the servers or the network.

Considering the fact that D3 has both a client and server software stack involved, and both are home grown, built from the ground up.  When you go live with a certain application, there are so many things that can/will go wrong.  And as I mentioned above, if you do your hardware correctly, its rarely the hardware that is the issue. 

Even when you test (ala stress test) with the public like that, it dosnt always give you a similar experience when you go full production.  So I would list it like this: server app, client app, servers and network.  The last variable to the list is user actions.  You can control the first 4 (and that can be a headache in itself).  But you can never fully expect what the users are going to do.  Going live with a real money auction house?  Hmm, perhaps people are attacking the new app hoping to get some real money loot from a unexpected bug in the app?

So, in summary, yeah, it could be just server capacity, but it could also be a number of other things as well.  And more than likely, it oculd be a nasty combination of things (this many people + hacking attempts at auction servers + server bug = fail)

That being said, Id more suprised if there were no emergency maintenance on launch day then to see servers go down.

I think the content is relative to the thread content, since this is a DIII thread it's pulling articles that talk about DIII. Also, it seems the "network" has expanded from just VGC sites to a bunch of other sites.

"Diablo servers are full putting you in queue"

What fucking brain dead moron of a game designer did this shit? I am playing alone you dumb fucks at Blizzard. A queue duesn't fucking exist for fucking single player, fucking idiots.

Edit: Fuck. I didnt think there was enough of them in there.

They just shut servers down again, I was playing then got warnings saying "server shutting down in...." then I got booted. 2nd time today they shut down last time for about 3 hrs.

They said american servers this time and they should be up by 3:30 PDT