Hellgate:London

[Kevin]

Oh ho ho...the Diablo 2 launch was horrifying. Don't remember how it would take sometimes up to a minute or more to pick up an item? The lag was game-breaking at launch. I was in college at the time and I remember playing at 3:00 AM because that was the only time the servers weren't lagged to hell and back, pun intended.

After a month or so, things got ironed out generally, but Blizzard was totally overwhelmed by the network traffic and lag conditions at launch. They later claimed it was a "good learning experience" they could take forward into WoW. Oops.

-Bolty

Ah, OK I don't remember that because I didn't really play on Battle.net much early on with D2. I did a lot of LAN games. But now that you mention it I do remember that I played LAN instead of B.net because of how bad the servers were. I actually recall playing on "servers" of folks that had static IPs and would just leave a LAN game running then restart the game every now and then.

But yeah since I didn't care that much about B.net and I didn't play the game with people I didn't already knew it was easy for me to forget that B.net was messed up because I wasn't playing it on B.net. Most of the multiplayer I wanted to play was with my wife and our friends and that was generally with all 3 or 4 of us in my house. :)