Just refreshed the page after some 50 minutes. At the current rate there are about 200 negative user reviews per hour.

I'm a little surprised that Blizzard hasn't figured out how to do the "highly anticipated launch" thing more smoothly yet.

I'd wait a week or so to start looking at reviews. Right now the vocal people are going to be the ones that are pissed that they can't log in.

a lot of this seems to be anti-DRM protests which hits close to home after that time my internet was down and i wanted to play Assassin's Creed 2

Everytime I see Diablo 3 online to purchase, ten minutes later it is all sold out. Do vendors not order enough supplies?

It is possible to get a digital only copy directly from Blizzard.

Massive launches with online projects are a dangerous thing due to system faults when the gates open.