OMG, does the join game list in D2 bother anyone else?

duragezic

Lifer
Oct 11, 1999
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A couple weeks ago, Blizzard changed the join game list to not show just those very newly created games and instead pick random games to be shown on the list. Also now, the only way to get them to refresh is to quit back to character screen and come back.

Now the problem with this? Well many of those games are 1+ hour old with some being up to 5 hours old. Now how am I suppose to get help doing a certain quest when if I am lucky enough to find one, the game is 2 hours old and that quest is long finished. If I create my own no one usually joins until 30 minutes or whatever and I'm not waiting that long.

I simply don't see a point to this change. Before this, I could ALWAYS fine games for questing, trading, exping, whatever. Most people can't stand the lag, which I hate a lot too, especially after dropping items to transfer to another character (good items like soj, wall of eyeless, etc...) only to be disconnected and not get back on until 5 minutes later when that came is gone.

Anyone else finding this REALLY annoying?
 

Cylon

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Feb 28, 2000
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I know exactly what you are talking about. I've been looking a lot more closely at the elapsed game time now, sometimes I find ones that are new, but more often all the good areas (Act4 River of Flame/Chaos Sanctuary for example) are cleared.

At least the lag isn't as bad as it once was. Be nice if they'd get the 1.04 patch out too, I can't begin to think of how many times I've died from the whirlwind bug :(.

What realm do you play on? I'm on USEast, my account name is Cy1on, maybe we could try getting some other anandtechers to play some private 8 player coop games :).
 

duragezic

Lifer
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USEast.

My account name is carlson2.

My bro plays sometimes so if you whisper him and he is like "wtf" just ignore him... :)

I got a level 49 necro in Hell (thinking about ditching that char and using equip for tweaker sorc), level 28 paladin in nightmare, and just started a tweaker sorceress.

So anyone else playing Diablo, list your account name so we can get a good game (though probably not lag-free) going! :)