This is an absolute nightmare, to be honest. I am sorry for the engineers that have what appears to be months of retroactive fixes their inboxes D2R Ladder Items. There's a school of thinking that says, well, Blizzard should have seen this coming and prepared for it.
However, that's also a fundamental one of the risks that you face when you remaster. The games were created in a time when information and multiplayer didn't have the reach or popularity of access we enjoy nowadays, and it's hard to determine if a lot of the old infrastructure will scale in the way we imagine it could.
Sometimes , it works and it does until the point at which it all is thrown into a fiery heap.Diablo 2 Resurrected's servers are falling into the ground due to "modern gamer behaviour"Diablo II: Resurrected was released to public and persistent server issues. Today an official from the Blizzard community manager provided details about the root of the issue - and it's partially a 20-year-old program, and also some more modern gamer behavior.
Resurrected's server problems over the last couple of weeks have been getting more severe. The result was a series of instances of downtime over the last week, when the global outage resulted, Blizzard say, by an increase in traffic. "This was a new level that our servers have never had before, not even when they were launched," reads the post on the Blizzard forums.
The issue was further aggravated by an update we released earlier in the day designed to improve performance during game creation. These two elements increased the load on our database globally and caused it to take a long time out. We were able to reverse the Friday update that we had previously deployed in the hope of easing the burden on Buy D2R Items our servers as we approached Sunday, while providing us with the time to look into the root of the issue."