My props to the D2R team for this detailed explanation.

I rarely see a proper breakdown and explanation of issues causing downtime to a game, especially while mitigation is still under way.

Too many companies hide behind a PR-friendly non-explanation, and I expected the Diablo 2 Resurrected Team to do the same (being Activision-Blizzard and all).

If this were one of their big title releases though, I bet such a post would not have happened.

I find it really really strange that they use a single database instead of something like vitess.

There's not much content on HN about game servers, and as a game server engineer, I was curious to see a discussion amongst engineers about these outage notes by Blizzard.