So as most of you probably know if you're reading this blog for the
WoW updates, Diablo 3 finally went live eight days ago. I have been
trying to download D3 on and off since March 18. Unfortunately the
downloader doesn't quite work as well as it should. The only thing i
can figure is that it's meant to be a background downloader. It never
downloads at a speed that would prohibit one from doing other things
online. Over the course of the download i think that i have uploaded
more than i have downloaded via the P2P and when i tried to download
directly without P2P the download would be slowed to a trickle and
quickly become non-existent at all.
I'm not sure that
i'm upset about how slow things have been (much slower than if i were
able to use my download accelerator) because i am sure that a lot of
people have been trying to download it as the same time as me. No, i'm
annoyed that the downloader crashes constantly. There's no error
message, it just inexplicably decides to close itself rather than do
its job. If i set it up to download overnight then it will not even get
through half a percent before crashing. So i only got to 20% before
last week because it slipped my mind after the first few nights of this
nonsense. It wasn't until about ten days ago that i started making a
more concerted effort again.
But of course it isn't
even enough to have the downloader running in the background while
you're still using the computer. That seemed to help, but around about
45-46% the dang downloader was so slow that i was sure there was
something wrong with it, and it was closing itself nearly instantly. So
i got fed up and decided to see if there was a fix and/or new
downloader on Sunday (May 20). This is after trying to download for
hours four days in a row and getting only 25% completed. Perhaps this
is because so many other people were trying to download at the same
time, but i figured that i was being sly using the old downloader while
other people would be using the new one. No such luck.
So
Sunday morning i downloaded the new launcher before church after
discovering that my overnight download had gotten absolutely nowhere.
Wasn't i surprised when i discovered that the D3 launcher is broken just
like the MoP beta launcher...it won't get past the "Updating Setup
Files" window and the D3 "fix" that people were advocating was using the
old downloader. I was more than a little upset about this on Sunday. I
have personally known about this issue for a month (though it feels
like twice that amount of time) and not only has Bizzard done absolutely
nothing about it but they are basically shipping a product that they
know isn't going to work. That or ignoring their beta testers.
Now
the common response to this on the forum was "you don't get to complain
because you didn't pay for the game." On the contrary, i am paying
$120 as opposed to the $60 the rest of you are paying! There is no way
that i would have committed to playing WoW for an entire year without
the Annual Pass guarantee of 1) "Free" copy of Diablo 3 and 2) Mists of
Pandaria beta invite. So far my $120 has gotten me absolutely nothing
but broken promises. This is $120 that i cannot even afford to be
spending, and in reality it is an installment plan with four months of
free WoW. That is what i am paying for because of my loyalty to the
game. A game that i know doesn't ever really live up to its promises
but that i cannot stand to stop playing because i love it so much
anyway.
So instead of staring at "Updating Setup Files"
perpetually i decided to stick with the old downloader and hope that
the game will work when i'm finished and not have to be patched with the
broken launcher. I am going to be very upset if the game doesn't work
after spending so much time restarting this downloader! And it required
me to find something to do on my computer while i was babysitting the
downloader.
Basically i got sucked into the black hole
that is Minecraft fairly recently and over the past three days i built
my wolf pack (why are they always underfoot but only fight for me about
half the time and get in the way when they are fighting?), wheat and pig
farm, and underground home complete with adjacent lighthouse tower and
moat defense system. What's really pissing me off at the moment is that
i seem to have lost experience somewhere (and i haven't died lately...)
and there is a nearby dungeon or cave with lots of mobs in it that i
cannot find anywhere. So any time i am in my home there is the
perpetual sound of water, zombies moaning, and skeletons clinking. I
got fed up with that last night. I cannot tell which direction the
sounds are coming from at all. I think i'm going to build a basement
next. The irony about my cave home? When i first found this cave a
creeper blew me up and then i couldn't find it again before my game
crashed and all my supplies and xp disappeared.
In my
first Minecraft world i got to lvl 16 and stumbled upon a village. I
then found a shaft in the middle of the village that went down to lava
and somehow got pushed in while a zombie was pushing me uphill. I died,
the game crashed, and when i went back the village and shaft were no
more but one of my dogs was sitting in the middle of a new forest
waiting for me to come back. I was so upset that i deleted the entire
world and started again. I do have a cave near my spawn point for that
world but i'm not really enjoying this world. There seem to be more
creepers in this version, ender men and iron are abundant, but i have
yet to find redstone, gold, or diamond. I found some clay but have yet
to use it and have been thinking about taming an ocelot. I play the
game entirely too much...and secretly wish i could find a Chip's
Challenge or Lego texture pack.
Anyways, if i am
downloading while reading fic or playing Minecraft then the D3
downloader seems to be much less likely to close. It still happens from
time to time but it allows for downloading over greater lengths of
time. If i go afk to watch a movie in the next room for example the
downloader will always close while i'm gone within the first 30-60
minutes. If i'm on my computer it only happens once ever few hours.
But since Sunday i have gotten over the ~45% hump and am now over 90%.
By this evening i should be able to log into D3 only a week later than
expected. God willing. I am so sick of Blizzard's stuff not working,
it makes me sad.
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