"When this happens the error message will state that D2R Items there is an issue with communicating with game servers. This isn't an indication that the game servers have gone down at this specific situation, but rather that you are being rated limited to ease the load on the database, to keep the game running." Blizzard advised.
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. 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 same popularity or accessibility that we enjoy today, and it's hard to tell if the old infrastructure will scale the way we imagine it could.
Sometimes , it works and it does until the point at which it all is a fiery heap.Diablo 2 Resurrected's servers are falling into the ground due to "modern gamer behaviour"Diablo II: Resurrected was released to unresolved 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 buy D2R Ladder Items the Blizzard forums.