Diablo 3 users experiencing Achievement issues

Some Diablo 3 players are reporting missing Achievements. Blizzard blames this on server overload, and says the achievements aren't deleted, just not coming back from the server fast enough to display.

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Diablo 3 launched to a bit of a snag, as a massive glut of players led to overloaded servers and network problems. While those issues seem mostly resolved, some users are reporting missing Achievements as well.

An extensive Blizzard forum post has several users complaining about missing achievements. A reply from the QA department attributes this to server issues. "The achievements server in particular is being hammered, which may be why your achievements are not showing up," he said. "It is not that they are deleted, but that there is a (very long) delay in retrieving that data." Blizzard is said to be working on the problem.

Players are still complaining about missing achievements, and some users have still reported server problems in general today. If your achievements are MIA, though, it sounds like the game still remembers what you've accomplished and you'll get them all back once the servers are a bit less overloaded.

If you're wondering how our own John Keefer is doing in his own Diablo experience, check out his accounts of the first two hours and reaching level 10.

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    May 16, 2012 2:15 PM

    Steve Watts posted a new article, Diablo 3 users experiencing Achievement issues.

    Some Diablo 3 players are reporting missing Achievements. Blizzard blames this on server overload, and says the achievements aren't deleted, just not coming back from the server fast enough to display.

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      May 16, 2012 3:02 PM

      I think their excuse is bullshit. I am getting achievements instantly but I am still missing all of the ones gained on launch day. I have gone back and got those achievements again without issue.

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        May 16, 2012 3:25 PM

        I also lost all my achieves from launch day but since their emergency release yesterday evening everything is fine and I went back and redid everything too.

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          May 16, 2012 3:38 PM

          Fuck that. I only went back to get a few. Waiting for them to fix it.

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        May 16, 2012 5:25 PM

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      May 16, 2012 3:41 PM

      This happened to me. I don't really give a shit or anything, but I don't know how I can redo the "get the blacksmith achievement", since I have him now.

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        May 16, 2012 3:50 PM

        You can always do a quick restart of the early missions, and then go back to the later missions.

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        May 16, 2012 3:56 PM

        They seem to be account based so getting it with a second character should fill it in.

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          May 16, 2012 4:04 PM

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            May 16, 2012 5:06 PM

            Really? In the beta he wasn't there until you go do his quest

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              May 16, 2012 11:33 PM

              The ability to craft stays with your account, though. So once you've done it on one character, it's there for all.

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        May 16, 2012 5:25 PM

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      May 16, 2012 4:46 PM

      Gotta love needing to be online to play! Woot! Who woulda thought it could lead to any problems - apparently not the crack team at Blizzard.

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        May 16, 2012 4:59 PM

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        May 16, 2012 4:59 PM

        They are fighting piracy by implementing countermeasures that punish legitimate customer

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          May 16, 2012 5:26 PM

          and its wildly successful! blizzard wins!

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        May 16, 2012 5:21 PM

        22 hours of playing since launch tells me otherwise. These posts are dumb as fuck.

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          May 16, 2012 6:32 PM

          I finally get to play today. Log in. play 15 min. Servers go down.

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          May 16, 2012 6:36 PM

          You must either be playing on the Europe or the Asian servers because the US servers haven't had the greatest up time. Yesterday was a complete crap-shoot if the servers would stay on and then kept doing maintenance every other hour. They shut off the servers more than once for an hour or more.

          Today was somewhat better but even as I type this they are doing yet another restart.

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            May 16, 2012 11:30 PM

            The game servers have been fine, the login servers are what are having the issues. If you log in and never log out, you would be able to stay on most of the day. (not that I'm justifying the problems)

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          May 16, 2012 10:51 PM

          The vast support for your remark seems to be missing. Nice try.

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        May 16, 2012 11:02 PM

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          May 17, 2012 2:13 AM

          Oh noes! My virtual nerd awards aren't as valid because someone else hacked theirs! Gasp! The horror! Won't someone think of the children??!

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            May 17, 2012 5:12 AM

            Just because you don't care for them doesn't mean others do not. Also, lol at complaining about achievements not showing up in OP then turning around and saying 'hey guys who cares???'.

            or you were just using it as an entry point to thread shit.

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        May 17, 2012 5:32 AM

        no one thought there wouldnt be problems.

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      May 16, 2012 5:59 PM

      honestly does anyone actually care about achievements?

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        May 16, 2012 6:00 PM

        Yes

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        May 16, 2012 6:01 PM

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        May 16, 2012 6:07 PM

        If people didn't they wouldn't put them in the game

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        May 16, 2012 6:33 PM

        like honestly, genuinely totally curious, anymore bro->skie, lol k

        Of course people do. You might not, though.

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        May 16, 2012 6:35 PM

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        May 16, 2012 6:38 PM

        They're fun. I don't often go actively looking to achieve them, unless some kind of progress indicator pops up. Then my CDO (That's OCD with the letters in the correct order, as they should be) kicks in and I feel compelled to complete them (because I want to). I also just love it when something unexpected pops up (that's what she said) and I find out I did something unique. Such as finish level 1.

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        May 16, 2012 6:38 PM

        yup. they are fun challenges to try on subsequent boss runs.

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          May 16, 2012 6:39 PM

          honestly

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          May 16, 2012 6:46 PM

          I wish these were the only achievements. Drop all the lame "I hit level 10" achieves but leave in all the cool "Do this boss without getting hit by x ability." Then I would care about achievements.

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        May 16, 2012 6:40 PM

        not on the first run, but hey, they don't get in the way or anything

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        May 16, 2012 10:57 PM

        I like achievements as long as they're platform based. Steam/360, etc. It helps me see what games my friends liked / didn't like. I can see how far they got and how obsessed. It helps me recommend games to them.

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        May 16, 2012 11:40 PM

        The achievements screen is a pain to look through. Everything is too big when you click on it so you can only really see 1 at a time. Otherwise I might do a few for fun.

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        May 17, 2012 2:24 AM

        I NEED MY BANNER PATTERNS, YOU HEATHEN!

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        May 17, 2012 5:15 AM

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        May 17, 2012 5:34 AM

        Because I was born after 1980 I can't do anything in life without someone or something telling me I'm doing a good job and rewarding my behavior.

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        May 17, 2012 5:55 AM

        I don't care that much, but if they're there, I want them to actually work.

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      May 17, 2012 2:33 AM

      My achievements seem to reset quite often at random between sessions. I swear I've gotten the same achievement 5+ times now. I've never had any of my lost achievements come back. It's a problem because some achievements are impossible to get a second time.

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        May 17, 2012 6:47 AM

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          May 17, 2012 7:39 AM

          Oh yes, I'm sure. It's a documented problem and is addressed in the official apology as "we're looking into it."

          According to my achievements I've finished Act 1 but I've never killed the skeleton king, and I've upgraded my smith but never acquired him. And every time I log in and salvage something I get the salvage achievement. Working as intended!

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        May 17, 2012 6:48 AM

        We can only hope that the status was recorded on the server at some point and that they will be restored

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      May 17, 2012 5:24 AM

      My friend has the reach level 20 achievement, but not the reach level 10 one.

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      May 17, 2012 9:00 AM

      I noticed this issue yesterday on the EU server (achievements) whereas a friend of mine kept earning them and they would show up in the bottom right of my screen. However today I have been playing on the US server and everything is working fine.

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      May 17, 2012 3:32 PM

      Ship it.

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