The issue was resolved on D2R Items Tuesday, however another large number of concurrent players on the same day led to "degraded performance of the database," which database engineers are working to correct. The issue is so serious to the point that the Diablo 2: Resurrected team has brought in engineers from other areas of Blizzard to assist in fixing smaller issues while focusing in "core problems with servers."

"We have reached out to our third-party partners to offer assistance also," PezRadar said.

It is interesting to note that Blizzard's wish to preserve the genuine Diablo 2 experience in the remake is the primary cause of these issues. 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 redesigned and optimized for Diablo 2: Resurrected but remains rooted in 20 years-old technology, and is having a difficulties staying up to date with "modern game play."

"In 2001 there wasn't as much information on the web about the game of Diablo 2 'correctly' (Baal is available for XP and Pindleskin/Ancient Sewers for magical finds, etc.)," PezRadar said. "Today however, a novice player can search for many amazing content creators who can show players about how they can play in various ways.

A lot of them involve a lot of database load, in the form of creating loading, destroying, and creating games with a rapid pace. Although we could have predicted this with players creating new characters on new servers, striving to find their magical items, we greatly underestimated the extent of what we learned from D2R Ladder Items Buy the beta testing."