stating the obvious

[NightPort]

Error 2002 90k 5003 whatever the number there's a bigger issue that is clearly within their power to fix. The game should not handle these issues with a crash to desktop. It should not forcibly shut itself down and make you enter your login information over and over again. This is just poor design. It always has been. it's a massive QoL failing, and it's time to fix that.

Every single time we are bumped form the queue because your program shuts itself down, we try logging in again. Every single time the program closes to desktop, we put our login info again and ping the login servers. This is /creating/ a pile on of login attempts that might as well be a DDOS. it is causing your servers to be less stable. Just make the client stop closing to desktop already. There's no need for that.

I've been saying this for a while now. I never understood why the launcher needs to shut down every time I hit play. Why not keep it up and logged in. Keeps from stressing the servers in situations like we are experiencing right now.

[Yuletide]

Keeps from stressing the servers in situations like we are experiencing right now.

That would add more stress to the servers to keep you logged in. It would also produce far more errors.

[NightPort]

That would add more stress to the servers to keep you logged in. It would also produce far more errors.

eh, not really. The launcher doesn't necessarily have to do much. Though I understand what you are saying in the traditional sense of launchers. Most games launchers shut down after you hit that good ole play button. But companies could, to a degree, learn from Blizzard here because their Battle.net system only closes when you tell it to.