It appears as though Australians are having difficulties logging onto Diablo III, as a result of an login loop that appears to be constantly informing players that an update is required.
When players start the Diablo III, they are kicked to the launcher, which informs them an update is required, but then the launcher says the game is up-to-date. This is despite the fact that Battlenet states that servers are live and available for play.
Apparently it’s a result of the Asian servers being down, hence players can’t install the patch properly — so apparently it’s a regional issue. Updates are region locked, and those in our region haven’t had the update properly updated, which means that no matter what server you play on, you’ll still have similar issues. This can be frustrating for players who spend the time downloading a patch only to be asked to download it again in a loop.
We’ve contacted Blizzard locally for an update. More info as we get it.
Thanks Stuart
UPDATE: Looks as though a fix for the Diablo III log-in issue can be found here on the Battle.net forums. Thanks Daniel!
UPDATE 2: Apologies — I got the details wrong on the size of the patch. Apparently the patch is relatively small — 1.02 is 60MB and 1.02a is 5MG. Again, sorry for the confusion.
You are lucky then. Borked on both of my installs (PC and Mac). Did the Wordpad edit, and now it is updating 2.6GB of something. Amazingly bad work yet again...
It may be working now.. but it shouldn't have stopped working..
Another reason I am glad I didn't buy this overhyped rubbish..
Keep on digging that hole Blizzard, just keep on diggin'.
I had no trouble launching the game just then. It patched itself and opened up and logged in as expected.
I wish I could post a troll face here. I really do.
Ah well, I think I might go and play an offline single player game for a while. Still, sorry to hear you guys can't play your game when you want though (those that are having problems).