It was upgraded and optimized to work with Diablo 2

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The issue was resolved on Tuesday, however another large number of concurrent players on the same day led to "degraded performance of databases" which engineers from the database are still trying on fixing. The situation is so dire that the D2R Items: Resurrected team has brought in engineers from other parts of Blizzard to aid in resolving smaller problems , while focusing on "core problems with servers."

"We reached out to our third-party partners for help too," PezRadar said.

The irony is that Blizzard's need to keep an authentic Diablo 2 experience in the remake is at the root of the problems. One "legacy service" in particular handles critical functions including "game creation/joining, updating/reading/filtering game lists, verifying game server health, and reading characters from the database."

It was upgraded and optimized to work with Diablo 2: Resurrected but is still rooted in 20-year-old technology and has difficulties staying up to date with "modern player behavior."

"In 2001 there wasn't as much information on the internet on playing Diablo 2 'correctly' (Baal plays for XP, Pindleskin/Ancient Sewers/etc for magic find, etc)," PezRadar said. "Today however, a new player can look up any number of amazing content creators who are able to teach them ways to use the game in a variety of ways.

A majority of them include a lot of database load, in the form of creating loading, dismantling, and even destroying games at a rapid rate. While we knew this was possible--with players making fresh characters on fresh servers, working hard in order to Buy D2R items PC -- we completely underestimated what we derived from the beta testing."