Upon it's initial PC release back in 2012, Diablo 3 suffered through an incredibly difficult launch. Considering its legacy, the excitement surrounding a new game in the series was extremely high, something which the servers were not ready for as various errors plagued the experience including the infamous Error 37 which quickly went viral online. While Diablo 3 would go on to receieve plenty of updates including the well recieve Reaper of Souls expansion pack, it was a precarious start for a game that would go on to break numerous sales records.
Now it appears as though history is repeating itself, as Diablo 2: Resurrected is also suffering through a host of issues in its first week of availability. While reception and critical reviews for Diablo 2: Resurrected have been good, players have been experiencing all sorts of issues from connection issues, error messages, as well as characters being outright deleted. Unfortunately, fans are running into another strange issue essentially locking them out of their character.
The issue was discovered a day after the Diablo 2: Resurrected launch as players attempted to login and select their character, but instead were met with an error that indicated that they had not only failed to enter the game, but that the character was already in a game on the server. While no doubt surprising, the issue seems to stem from the system not registering the fact that players have logged off the server, assuming they're still in the game.
Blizzard attempted to fix this issue earlier in the week, but it's maintenance Tweet has been met with replies from frustrated fans that they're still experiencing the problem after installing the update. Thankfully, Blizzard went on to acknowledge the issue and that it was continuing to work on restoring stuck characters to a playable state. Unfortunately for offline characters, Blizzard confirmed that the disappearing bug is still active for some players and advised to avoid using the same name for online and offline characters.
It seems these constant issues have finally pushed fans to review bomb Diablo 2: Resurrected. As more and more players become unhappy and frustrated with the experience, the user review score on metacritic has pummeted with more and more negative reviews replacing the positive ones. The main complaints seem to be around the bugs, technical issues, and the server errors that have plagued the experience since launch. Some have even mentioned things like the lack of mod support, the Amazon class changes, and more.
Diablo 2: Resurrected is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.