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Which is where we move into player behavior

  • Resurrected's server issues during the last few weeks have seemed to D2R Items get more severe. This culminated in several occasions of downtime within the last week, and the entire outage could be attributed to, Blizzard say, by a surge in traffic. "This was a new level that our servers had not encountered before, and since the beginning of our service," reads the post on the Blizzard forums.

    This was made worse by an update we had launched earlier that day intended to enhance performance around game creation.

    These two elements increased the load on our database globally and caused it time out. We took the decision to roll back the Friday update, which we'd previously rolled out in hopes of lessening the load on our servers going into Sunday and also giving us the space to investigate deeper into what caused the issue."

    As it turned out, it wasn't enough. Sunday saw a further number of users and the servers again crashed. This time on Monday. This post is extremely long and precise in its explanation of the reasons for this.

    However, particularly Blizzard claim the blame lies with the old code used in creating and joining games and reading characters from the database. "We were able to optimize the service in numerous ways to be more technologically advanced technologies, but as we previously mentioned that a large portion of buy D2R Ladder Items our issues stem from the creation of games," says the post.