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It was clear that changing the patch wasn't enough. Sunday brought a bigger number of users and the servers D2R Items . On Monday, they were again down. The link above is lengthy and superbly comprehensive in its explanation of the reason this is happening. However, Blizzard put the blame on an old-fashioned code involved in creating and joining games and reading characters from the database. "We have improved this service in many ways to conform to more contemporary technology, but as we've said before the majority of our issues are due to the process of creating games," says the post. Which is where we move into player behaviour. "We mention 'modern player behavior' because it's an interesting point to think about. The year 2001 was the last time there was as much information on the internet on how to play Diablo II 'correctly' (Baal runs for XP and Pindleskin/Ancient Sewers for finding the magical item, etc.). Today, however players can lo