We made the decision to D2R Items reverse that Friday update, which we'd previously rolled out in the hope of easing the load on our servers leading into Sunday while giving us the opportunity to study what caused the issue."

In the end, the patch was not enough. Sunday saw a more significant growth in traffic and servers froze again. This time on Monday. The above linked post is lengthy and beautifully specific in the explanation of the reason for this.

But in particular Blizzard put the blame on an old-fashioned code involved in creating and joining games, and also reading characters from databases. "We improved our service in multiple ways in order to meet the requirements of contemporary technology, but as we've said before, a lot of our issues stem from game development," says the post.

"We talk about'modern game behavior" because it's a fascinating aspect to consider. The year 2001 was the last time there was nearly as much material on the internet about playing Diablo II 'correctly' (Baal plays for XP or Pindleskin/Ancient sewers/etc for finding the magical item, etc.).

Today, however beginner player can seek out any number of amazing creators of content that can teach new players to play the game in various ways, most of buy diablo 2 resurrected items them with a lot of database load for creating.