The dreaded Error 37 has once again struck Diablo III, and Blizzard is scrambling to fix the issue while a number of players have reported that server issues have killed their character in the game’s permadeath Hardcore Mode, which does not allow players to resurrect dead players.
A Blizzard community manager had posted to fans, ”Login is currently being impacted by the number of players that are coming online after they downloaded the patch and accepted the Terms of Use. Sadly, the additional steps required to patch and log in to the game is creating a lot of the ‘Error 37’ prompts for players.
“We’re currently working on a fix for this and are looking to have it implemented as soon as possible; we hope to have future patching processes smoothed out for Diablo 3.”
Blizzard had apologized once before due to Diablo III’s rocky launch and always-on DRM.