Frequent Disconnects
So its been two days now that I've experienced constant disconnects mid-game, usually around 5-8 minutes in (and almost always when Im in a good position to win). Coincidentally this is all happening a few days after being told that blizzard is moving towards this cross-region bollocks, which I'm fairly sure when implemented will break the game if not the servers.
Have anyone else been experiencing this? Its getting to the point that I might have to start switching to hyper aggro decks just so this bs doesn't keep losing me the game because Im forced to skip a turn from this constant irritation.
And no, I'm nearly 100% certain this has nothing to do with my machine or internet providers, because I'm still able to surf the net while this is happening, and I haven't recently made any new installations or updates that may screw with my system. Whenever I get disconnected, I would flip the battlenet interface on and can see that my account is 'connecting' and all their ads are missing, which is a sign that it might be something to do with their servers.
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So its been two days now that I've experienced constant disconnects mid-game, usually around 5-8 minutes in (and almost always when Im in a good position to win). Coincidentally this is all happening a few days after being told that blizzard is moving towards this cross-region bollocks, which I'm fairly sure when implemented will break the game if not the servers.
Have anyone else been experiencing this? Its getting to the point that I might have to start switching to hyper aggro decks just so this bs doesn't keep losing me the game because Im forced to skip a turn from this constant irritation.
And no, I'm nearly 100% certain this has nothing to do with my machine or internet providers, because I'm still able to surf the net while this is happening, and I haven't recently made any new installations or updates that may screw with my system. Whenever I get disconnected, I would flip the battlenet interface on and can see that my account is 'connecting' and all their ads are missing, which is a sign that it might be something to do with their servers.
I have experienced more disconnects the past few patches than all the years prior combined. Of course, I remember the ones where I was in winning position better than otherwise. Luckily for me, none of these resulted in losses so far.
I was always in favor of reducing the turn time limit even further, but since these disconnects are still occurring and frequently also, I am fine with the turn time limit as it is right now. At least, there is sufficient time to reconnect and still play out your own turn.
I didn't have any trouble over the weekend. Admittedly I was barely on yesterday so I wouldn't count that as evidence, but I did spend quite a while finishing up achievements on Saturday, which included a bunch of long games (no small thanks to Kresh, Lord of Turtling being in the bottom 10 cards every game...).
EU server btw.
That used to be the case when my disconnects-reconnects would flash away and waste but 5 seconds of my time. Now its simply just dumping me back around 1 minute after disconnecting me, which obviously means I would have missed a turn.
It might be preferable to give an additional grace 10 seconds to the player whenever blizz detects a disconnect, but with so many rage quiting happening in hearthstone, I doubt there would ever be enough support to push them towards this.
Good observation, reconnecting DOES seem to take a bit longer when they occur these days. If they happen at the latter part of your turn, there is indeed insufficient time to reconnect and still finish your own turn (which would suck). A feature like receiving some grace time would be great, but wishful thinking since it has probably close to zero priority for Team 5.
I FOUND A SOLUTION!
I disabled QoS (Quality of Service) settings on my router and the constant disconnects stopped happening. Let me know if this helps!
Completely agree with you dapperdog, it happens a lot. Seems to increase with every patch.
I never ragequit, but i start to losing my patience with all those disconnections. It's not my pc or internet either.
I'm not online it's just your imagination