You have to feel sorry for the gamers of Australia & New Zealand, especially Australia where some games, like Mortal Kombat, get banned due to a flawed ratings system. It seems the woes of those Down Under just keep getting worse, this time the culprit is Blizzard’s Diablo III.
On the official Diablo III forums Australian and New Zealand based players have complained of latency (ping) rates of over 1000ms, making Diablo III basically unplayable in some cases. Not just the multiplayer of Diablo III but all of it, including the single player portion. This has caused some outrage with some players wanting local servers to address the high ping issues, while others are calling for the implementation for the single player to be available offline.
Source: Diablo III Forum
MXZ
This nonsense is getting pretty hellish.
i wont buy Diablo 3 until i have a better PC that can run it well, so im hoping once i can get it, its problems will be fixed because i actually really want to play this just not in the way it is now (very on and off)
Burgess_101
Diablo III’s specs. are ridiculously low you could run it on anything.
JesseDeya
Well there’s one less sale. No way I’m getting it until they fix this situation.
anongamer
I’m from Australia, initially I bought D3. I expected decent pings, other games that are hosted in America I get 180-200ms, but D3 was unplayable. I rang Blizzard, they refunded my game, couldn’t be happier
Klart
They deserve all the sh*t they get, really. If you’re going to enforce online shenanigans for a single player, you better make sure they work 100%.