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Blizzard Reveals Diablo III Stress Test Peak

By Brian P Rubin | 25 April 2012 | 6 Comments   

diablo III stress test

Over the weekend, Blizzard opened the beta for Diablo III to one and all in advance of its May 15 release to subject the servers to a stress test—which they seem to have passed. According to the Twitter feed of Blizzard Community Manager Micah “Bashiok” Whiple, this weekend’s stress test peaked “at around 300k concurrent” users, though he was less specific with regards to how many total users played: “I don’t know…a lot.”

The weekend didn’t go totally smoothly, though. A post on Eurogamer reveals that some gamers had trouble logging into the open beta, and that Blizzard “advised players to keep trying despite the constant log-in errors.”

Personally, I didn’t have the chance to try out the beta. I was playing Dungeons and Dragons—LIKE A BOSS. My Halfling monk totally wrecked a bunch of dire wererats, and rolled a 32 for an acrobatics check to run along a wall Matrix-style and get to the other side of a room, avoiding a trap on the floor. No mouse clicking for me, bitches.

Via Eurogamer

6 Comments

  1. Posted by Keisuke on 25 April 12 at 9:58am

    Why a halfing monk , and are you playing 4e?

    • Posted by Brian P Rubin on 25 April 12 at 10:14am

      Yep. At this point, whatever attachment I had to 3e and 3.5 is gone. I looked over my old d20 Modern book the other day, and I was like, “where the heck are the powers?!” I’m clearly too used to the new way of things to go back. Also: I really dig 4e these days. Just wish they didn’t revise stuff so much…

      • Posted by René Mathias Rojas on 25 April 12 at 12:03pm

        Sounds like the most badass game of D&D.

      • Posted by Lawrence Sonntag on 25 April 12 at 1:21pm

        I’m extremely happy this conversation is happening

        • Posted by Brian P Rubin on 25 April 12 at 10:37pm

          Diablo III–YESTERDAY’S NEWS. D&D is what all the cool kids do, baby! PASS ME DEM DICE

          • Posted by René Mathias Rojas on 26 April 12 at 2:05am

            I just got a new set of D&D books the other day, can’t wait to try’em out!
            I’m gonna roll a gnome bard! >;3

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