Has the fire from the sky stopped falling?

[Roland]

It's not economically feasible to create an authentication server strong enough to handle the initial load of the most preordered game ever and have it be over-specced the remaining 99.9% of its lifetime.

Sadly, letting people login and create characters early but not start games would just push the DDOS to the game creation part.

You know how often I agree with Quark (like never), but, in this case he's exactly right.

Yep. That's why I wasn't surprised, and didn't sweat the issues at all. Even with the servers going down (again) now, I'm not huffing over it. Gives me time to see to my kittens (who have been terrorizing me, and each other, far more than D3 has today ).