There are clearly serious problems in D2R Items the game, and with players growing increasingly angry about Blizzard's apparent inability address them Community manager PezRadar has written a lengthy forum update explaining what's gone wrong, the steps being taken to fix it, how they're going in the wake of it, and how it may take a while to resolve the issues completely."

The morning of Saturday, Pacific time, we experienced an outage across the globe due to an unexpected, substantial increase in traffic" PezRadar explained. "This was a new level which our servers have never had before prior to launch.

This was compounded by an update we released earlier in the day that was designed to boost performance around games. Both of these factors overloaded our global database that caused it to take a long time to load out."

To ease the burden, Blizzard rolled back the Friday update, but the solution was not enough. A larger increase in traffic led to another outage on Sunday.

Things turned out to be a bit shaky on Monday as Blizzard fixed the Diablo 2's backup database and then tried to switch it over. Once the switch was completed, it continued running backup processes rather than handling requests from remote servers.

That issue was fixed on Tuesday, however another record-breaking number of concurrent players was reported on the same day has led to "degraded performance of databases," which database engineers are working on fixing. The situation is serious enough that the Diablo 2: Resurrected team has brought in engineers from other departments of Blizzard to diablo II resurrected items help fix smaller problems while it concentrates on "core server issues."