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Chemo Savy - 30 Nov 2008 12:33 GMT
Anyone know what the he... is going on with bnet. Past 2 days I have
been unable to make any new games. I can join ones in progress. Chat
line says that bnet allowing about one game in 20 tries. I don't see
anything posted to explain this problem.

Chemo
Ross (RPJ) - 30 Nov 2008 16:05 GMT
> Anyone know what the he... is going on with bnet. Past 2 days I have
> been unable to make any new games. I can join ones in progress. Chat
> line says that bnet allowing about one game in 20 tries. I don't see
> anything posted to explain this problem.
>
> Chemo

I was wondering the same thing. Rebooted comp a couple of times thinking it
was a prob at my end.

FWIW, I created a new account and some 24 hours later, still have not
received the usual email from BNET to confirm registration of the account
axzr - 30 Nov 2008 16:09 GMT
> Anyone know what the he... is going on with bnet. Past 2 days I have
> been unable to make any new games. I can join ones in progress. Chat
> line says that bnet allowing about one game in 20 tries. I don't see
> anything posted to explain this problem.
>
> Chemo

Which realm are you in? I've had no issues in Europe.

A
Don Bruder - 30 Nov 2008 19:47 GMT
> > Anyone know what the he... is going on with bnet. Past 2 days I have
> > been unable to make any new games. I can join ones in progress. Chat
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>
> A

Seeing the same inability to make games on USWSCL as of last night.
Dunno if it affects other (Non-ladder/HC/etc) stuff. Tried multiple
times last night and got nothing but repeated "failed to join game"
results each time I attempted to create a game. Normal/NM/hell all had
same results. I *WAS* able to join games without a problem, but mainly
what there was were a metric buttload of "stripped" games - with the
Cave/Cain/Countess/Andy/summoner/etc all completed by somebody else
before I got there.

Haven't tried yet today - Might give it a go after lunch.

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jcrud - 30 Nov 2008 21:42 GMT
> Anyone know what the he... is going on with bnet. Past 2 days I have
> been unable to make any new games. I can join ones in progress. Chat
> line says that bnet allowing about one game in 20 tries. I don't see
> anything posted to explain this problem.
>
> Chemo
East nl is okay.  Been making all weekend.
Ross (RPJ) - 30 Nov 2008 22:11 GMT
Still going on for me as of 15:10 Mountain Time, uswscl
Don Bruder - 30 Nov 2008 23:00 GMT
> Still going on for me as of 15:10 Mountain Time, uswscl

Coming up on 15:00 Pacific time, and I'm about to go give it a whirl.
I'll let ya's know what I see when I finish.

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Don Bruder - 30 Nov 2008 23:44 GMT
> > Still going on for me as of 15:10 Mountain Time, uswscl
>
> Coming up on 15:00 Pacific time, and I'm about to go give it a whirl.
> I'll let ya's know what I see when I finish.

15:39 Pacific time. Just bailed out of USWSCL after multiple YCHBIs and
FTJGs. Got ONE created hell level game to connect (out of something like
10-12 attempts) but YCHBI-ed out of it about 5 minutes later, maybe a
bit less, and it wasn't there when I tried to get back in. Joined
multiple already-going games, but most of them were 20+ minutes old and
the "usual suspects" had already been mined out.

This is sucking...

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Shiflet - 30 Nov 2008 23:07 GMT
> Anyone know what the he... is going on with bnet. Past 2 days I have
> been unable to make any new games. I can join ones in progress. Chat
> line says that bnet allowing about one game in 20 tries. I don't see
> anything posted to explain this problem.

Two nights ago, US West completely dropped, realm wide, for about 1 minute.
Since then, no existing character on US West has been able to make games
with any regularity, regardless of ladder, NL, SC, or HC. They can join
games freely, but making is nigh impossible. Oddly, newly created chars can
make games with no issue, but any already existing char gets FTJG 90% of the
time they try to make. Blizzard has yet to acknowledge anything is wrong,
but whatever it was was related to the realm crash of 2 nights ago.

> Chemo
Don Bruder - 30 Nov 2008 23:46 GMT
> > Anyone know what the he... is going on with bnet. Past 2 days I have
> > been unable to make any new games. I can join ones in progress. Chat
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>
> > Chemo

Two nights ago... A long weekend... And Blizzard silent... Hmmm... Any
bets it don't clear up before Monday mid-day?

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jcrud - 01 Dec 2008 00:10 GMT
>>> Anyone know what the he... is going on with bnet. Past 2 days I have
>>> been unable to make any new games. I can join ones in progress. Chat
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
> Two nights ago... A long weekend... And Blizzard silent... Hmmm... Any
> bets it don't clear up before Monday mid-day?

Recall this happening before over a holiday weekend.
Mickey - 01 Dec 2008 00:13 GMT
> Anyone know what the he... is going on with bnet. Past 2 days I have
> been unable to make any new games. I can join ones in progress. Chat
> line says that bnet allowing about one game in 20 tries. I don't see
> anything posted to explain this problem.
>
> Chemo

Saturday morning, around 2:35 AM, Blizzard's USWest database servers
crashed. Since then, they have been having problems keeping up with
the joins/exits of characters.

I suspect this has to do with the clone walkers making thousands of
games attempting to line up characters on servers before walking the
clone. The price of an UN-ID'd anni on west has gone from 35 FG to
150FG since the mass bannings, on from $7.95 to $19.95 on online
stores such as www.lewt.com.

HTH,

Mickey
royls@telus.net - 02 Dec 2008 00:35 GMT
>> Anyone know what the he... is going on with bnet. Past 2 days I have
>> been unable to make any new games. I can join ones in progress. Chat
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
>150FG since the mass bannings, on from $7.95 to $19.95 on online
>stores such as www.lewt.com.

Thx for the explanation, Mickey.  There's been no problem on East
AFAIK, but I'm sure the Dclone walkers are straining resources there,
too.  Or at least, they were before the mass bannings.

-- Roy L
Engram - 01 Dec 2008 11:07 GMT
> Anyone know what the he... is going on with bnet. Past 2 days I have
> been unable to make any new games. I can join ones in progress. Chat
> line says that bnet allowing about one game in 20 tries. I don't see
> anything posted to explain this problem.

The weird thing is that while all this was going on, I could make games but
Swan couldn't. And we're on the same IP address, in the same room, sitting
next to each other, just separate accounts. He could join my games, but not
make his own. I saw him playing earlier, but didn't pay attention so don't
know if he managed to make a game with his own character or if he was
running around with one of mine.

Cheers!
Engram
Heidi - 01 Dec 2008 21:21 GMT
>> Anyone know what the he... is going on with bnet. Past 2 days I have
>> been unable to make any new games. I can join ones in progress. Chat
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
>Cheers!
>Engram

Monday afternoon west coast hcladder.  i see there is only 25k players
on network,  Problems making games continue,  Bots however are gone.
Maybe they will stay gone.  I think i'm also seeing new wordage in
chat windows.  such as  games of friends being tagged as xxx in
gameyyy(passworded).
unsynched servers after a repair ?  ?
Trammel - 02 Dec 2008 09:11 GMT
> unsynched servers after a repair ?  ?

...or maybe something more sinister after the mass-banning of something
blizz ignored for years?  ...something else to get people to stop playing
Diablo2 & other freeplay games on bnet?

Query:
Try creating new characters and see if they can make, as someone else
suggested.

If so, then its most probable cause is a database corruption somehow
stopping stored chars from the "old" (crashed) database making games (I cant
see what kinda info would need to corrupt to do this though).
Mickey - 02 Dec 2008 22:35 GMT
> > Anyone know what the he... is going on with bnet. Past 2 days I have
> > been unable to make any new games. I can join ones in progress. Chat
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> know if he managed to make a game with his own character or if he was
> running around with one of mine.

It depended on the status the database had your character in. Once you
got an FTJG, it seemed it took a LONG time to clear it. It you switch
to another char, that one would work.

Mickey
 
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