"If you don't give me my ice cream back, my parents will sue you and take every single daiper you have, snotface."

The Fallen Server is the first herald of doom. A star falls as Error 33 rises. The legions of Maintenance will soon be upon us.

For me, this whole scenario is balanced out by the fact that we got to see Marvel's Avengers a week early.

And this is the age of cloud technology. Marvelous. Back to board games.Unlike board games, however, cloud technology doesn't get ruined if you sneeze too hard...

I work all week, too, and I still fail to see what you're clawing at.

Oh look, only just noticed the Chat Gem right at the bottom. Reminds me of my childhood.

With any luck, the achievements server will be back up once maintenance has finished. I must admit, though, I can't comprehend how a 45-minute maintenance period is utterly ruining people's Sundays. You have a lot of Sundays left in your lives, y'know.

Perhaps they've just taken it down so they can apply a serverside hotfix to fix achievements.

Well, that's weird. I completed Normal without running into a single bug. At the end of the day, you'll just earn the achievements through future playthroughs anyway. Regarding lag, are you sure you're playing in the right region? A lot of europeans ended up playing on the US servers...

I think you're seriously underestimating Diablo 3. Don't let a few superficial, release-day bugs prevent you from playing a game that you know full well you will play for years to come. No game is perfect when it's released.