Blizzard Apolgizes For Diablo 3's Error 37

Written by: (@QuintLyn) | May 17, 2012 12:30 pm

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Most of you will probably remember a little demon that plagued your Monday night Diablo 3 launch experience named “Error 37.”  Our own Gary Gannon, Mike Schaffnit and Mike B. do.  They had to wait about two hours to log into D3 for the live Gameplay stream.

Well, Blizzard wants you to know they feel pretty bad about it.  They’ve released a statement saying that “despite very aggressive projections” they did not go far enough in preparing for the game.  They have also stated that they will continue to monitor performance and take measures as needed to “ensure a positive experience for everyone.”

Unfortunately, in order to do that they have also moved the release of the real-money auction house back.  They haven’t set a date for it, but they want to make sure everything runs properly before adding that in.

Blizzard finished by saying: “We sincerely regret that your crusade to bring down the Lord of Terror was thwarted not by mobs or demons, but by mortal infrastructure.”

 

Blizzard Apolgizes For Diablo 3's Error 37

  • Kaolai Saeteurn

    sad excuse to divert our attention away from the fact they had to delay the RMAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • http://twitter.com/Critzkreig Cody Moody

      I’d rather them delay it than lose my money, overcharge me, charge me twice, etc :P

      Whatever the reason was, i’m sure it’s not a joke.

      • thegoodidea

         I agree. Something that deals with real life money needs to be done right.
        That’s still no excuse for them not having it done by launch…among other things…..but if they have to keep it out to make sure it’s done right then so be it.
        Besides, I kinda like it not being in the game right now, it makes me feel like my progress and gear etc. is on par with others and no one has any upper hand. I enjoy the game more.
        Like classic Diablo. Or even D2.

  • http://www.facebook.com/nate.tuppin Nate Tuppin

    Oh noes Schaffnit singled out Method, queue teh butthurt

  • Jason Haverfield

    This guy looks like he just shit his pants on a date. :-o

    Today, 5-17-12 around 2:00 pm CST, I was in-game and kept losing the server getting the Error 3007 message, however someone said to go to the character menu screen and in the lower left there is a gear symbol which you click on  “join general chat” which then opens another box of options where I clicked “general” and the game was working much better.
    If your having this log in error and server issue try it, I hope it helps you too.

    • Jason Haverfield

       Update: I still see Error 3007 but its much less frequent and still highly annoying…!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joao-Vicente/100000881627920 João Vicente

     Rly blizz, rly?
    You didn’t know a F ton of people would play D3? Ok. You are retarded.

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/ITHF7XKYGVXFAPCDMDJTKHLBBU Lian Wan

      Maybe marketing forgot to tell sysops about the friends pass/starter edition.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1094283426 Connor Grogan

    Its’kay Blizzard, we still love you.

  • scottsummer

    Blizz: We are sorry we are rolling in a pool of diamond.

  • 7BitBrian

    I used to play single player games offline, then I took an error 37 to the login

    • thegoodidea

       haaaaaa awesome.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steve-Connors/636500420 Steve Connors

    it’s nice to see Blizzard screw up

  • http://twitter.com/Pross182 Pross182

    In 3 months error 37 will only be remembered as a meme anyways. 

  • http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm

    Error 37, I still hope you burn in hell ;)  

  • Jado Cast

    I think its a real shame you can’t play a single player game off line.  This wouldn’t of been that big a deal if you could just play offline.  

  • BabyChooChoo

    When I stare into Metzen”s eyes, I don’t see how anyone can stay mad…lol

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_P4HMCB2HFGNQRRKG5SO33L5LCQ Age Of Majority

    He reminds me of the guy from vsauce

  • Robberknight

    Why not, like at diablo 2 the possibility to play offline!!??
    I get booted all time by error 3007, really annoying.
    I REGRET HAVING BOUGHT THIS GAME!!!
    Battlenet should have been ready after a proper try-out, but they failed in thi.
    Immediately so many big problems.
    Shame on you battlenet.
    I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!

  • Elusive Fox

    honestly 37 has been the least of the problems games… just the most whined about…

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