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Posted by: Zaxares.5419

Zaxares.5419

I will reply to this thread on Oct. 22nd.

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Posted by: wemwem.2875

wemwem.2875

Does anyone else feel like shaking the naughty finger?.When I was bleeding from the eyes from boredom from another well known sub based game. I decided to try the free cough additional benefits of diablo 3,simply as I loved the first two games and expended hundreds upon hundred of enjoyable hours on them. Sadly for me the relationship with diablo 3 was doomed form start,Lets summaries,you either get it free and can not play, you purchase it and can neither download or if able play it, it` s a little glitch sever kick monster, so if you get online,well.. hold on to every second as its all your getting blinky! And this lasted for a million seller game..and people are complaining about a time difference?, do you not perhaps think the start of Halloween will happen ,you know when it does and really enjoy it?as oppose to waiting ,fists clenched and grinding teeth and begrudgingly worrying though the thing you are
entitled to?

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Posted by: Dinks.2478

Dinks.2478

Considering They advertised it as the 23rd to Europeans and it is still fairly early in the night for Pacific time. They still haven’t failed to deliver their promise, and won’t for several hours.

I don’t know where you got this from as the launcher and the “read more” link are still saying 22nd October with no timezone.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/coming-soon-shadow-of-the-mad-king/?utm_source=client

“Shadow of the Mad King, the first major game release for Guild Wars 2, will go live on October 22. This new game update will include a number of new features for all of our players to enjoy, new content to explore and see, and a week-long Halloween event.”

Not that it matters though as I’m off to bed after waiting all day for it and its now 02:55 (GMT+1)

They sent out emails about this event. European emails said the 23rd.

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Posted by: gadenp.7586

gadenp.7586

When you give just a date, most people expect the event/release to be at the start of the date. Even after you factor in the timezone difference. Most people will expect it to be released at 0000hrs Pacific time.

Which is why, I strongly promote the use of a specific time for release. If anything happens the developers can just inform users that there is an issue and extend the time.

Still I think to go so far as to post what Bad Villain did is well not right.

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Posted by: Ellendi.6742

Ellendi.6742

All the self-entitled whinging going on in here, I’d be tempted to cancel the whole durned thing. Sheesh.

It’s a good thing you’re not a company. You’d go out of business too fast.

I hear you. For some reason, my whinometer was pegged before I even got in here.

In honesty, though, working for myself is the best thing I’ve ever done.

How long did the business last? Couldn’t have lasted long with the mentality of yours.

“Wheres my product?”

“It’s gone, I give up, you whine too much”

…yeah, I see that going real well =P.

Why is it that poor behavior from customers is OK, but problems in developing or rolling out a complicated addition to an online game – without killing the servers to do so – isn’t? They’re basically looking at this as an upgrade to an automobile – while it’s still running. You’re suggesting that a company just give in to the whines – and when the product they release is flawed, they eat it for that, too. Given that kind of customer mentality, it’s a wonder anyone even tries in the business in the first place. There’s a point when you make concessions, and a point when you fire the customer. Given the whinging by many in this thread and others, the game’d better off without ’em.

Because the customer is always right and is entitled to be a jerk.

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Posted by: Dresdoe.7503

Dresdoe.7503

Why does everyone assume there are problems with the patch?

Normal update time is still 2 hours away. Why makes you think they will update any sooner than they do any other week?

Umm how about 4 years of not having to wait until after 8:55 p.m. of the posted date for release??? You guys saying that I should just wait and to stop complaining need to make your own thread like I did and stop attempting to flame and troll people who don’t care about your opinion, I am speaking for myself and I have made room for others who may feel the same way as I do. On the other hand I have not invited anyone to come and express their feelings of disagreement. Good Evening

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Posted by: Amorphous.2160

Amorphous.2160

so, those of us that work in est will not really be able to play much, unless we want to forgo sleep, untill the 23rd. when i heard the 22nd, i was of the thought sometime in the afternoon. i was expecting to be able to have it when i got home from work and have a full evening to play, silly me.

I dont understand the first part of the event lasts 4 days…………….not 1…………..whats the problem your having?

ok, i have no problem with them releasing it whenever they want, its their software. i just feel that they were misleading in what they said regarding the release timewise. i was really looking forward, all day long, to being able to play it tonight. being that i have to get up for work at 6am est, i will not be able to do anything tonight. had they said that it was gonna be this late in the evening/ night, i would have been ok with that. they just need better communication is all.

They had a video stream earlier today, explaining that the patch was still being worked on and would be released later tonight. They also said it was going to be a late evening patch on twitter about 14 hours ago.

But if people checked that stuff, and read where they said quite specifically it would be the 23rd in Europe (therefore meaning at LEAST evening the 22nd PST for everyone in the U.S.) and watched the live stream that stated they were having to work on things (it happens, game breaking stuff shows up, get the hell over it) , they couldn’t come here to moan that the arbitrary time that they set for themselves has come and gone lol

Be glad they are not certain other companies-who-shall-not-be-named and taking the servers down for HOURS. They are doing a live update, with a lot of content, pushed while maintaining the ability for players to keep playing. You might want to pretend you know better, but it’s a lot of work, things come up, and it just happens. This event is quite long, it’s not like you’re going to miss out if you’re a few hours or even a workday late.

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Posted by: Shoki.8329

Shoki.8329

To be honest I think the main problem has been that people have asked when the update is coming out. They have been repeatedly told ‘the 22nd’ the 22nd has come and gone for them. Whereas if someone had said instead of a copy paste response something like, ‘The update will likely not be released for another x hours.’ Most of the QQers would have looked at the post time, worked out what time it would be for them and most likely have gone to bed instead of sitting here moaning for hours that it isn’t out yet and they have been waiting for no reason.

I know a lot of people don’t use twitter and other social networking sites like that so a lot were looking at the big news on the official forum and missing the tiny little star next to the october 22nd headline, and like many others I didn’t recieve any emails about the event. I’m not complaining about this, but I do think that a more productive answer from the Devs in the structure I mentioned above would have been more productive and resulted in slightly less QQ.

If it’s 11:59 PST then I think that works out to 8 AM for us in the UK which I personaly actualy think is a decent time for an update.

This thread is titled ‘When does the haloween event start?’
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Posted by: Fractal.6175

Fractal.6175

Just wanted to say thank you for the update and I’m looking forward to it. As for those talking about the different time zones. I know of quite a few games that are ALL on PST. What’s the difference honestly? Someone in another zone will still have to do the math regarding times.
But, oh well, thank you again for such a great game. Everyone have a wonderful day/afternoon/night no matter what time you’re in

I have already a second clock on my computer for game releases for this very purpose!!! Think smarter, not harder

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Posted by: TwoSwords.4687

TwoSwords.4687

Anyone who actuallty believed the event would be up before midnight est is off their trolly

Why is that? When content is released on other games on a specific date is it normally towards the end of the day?

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Posted by: Kaspanova.7293

Kaspanova.7293

Seriously people, UK time is NOT GMT at the moment!

We are GMT + 1

It is NOT currently 2:30 GMT, it is 1:30 GMT.

Its 2:30 in the UK right now. I’m in it. and releasing an update at 4-5am really craps on your EU playerbase.

I don’t get why we have EU and US servers, I really dont

Are you kidding?! At this time the majority okitten players are in bed for example?! While most US are up? Seriously, how can you not understand US and EU servers?!?!

I don’t get what you think i’m saying… but i’ll lay it out for you.

Event releases on EU servers at 9pm CET
Event releases on US servers at 9pm PST

Not, 8pm US — 4am EU

What is the point of having EU servers if everything is based off US times?

Maybe so that EU players can play with other EU players because they are in the same timezone?

But all changes and updates take place in US time on EU servers. Thats my point

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Posted by: Sinder.5670

Sinder.5670

I would much rather be a bit patient and make sure the content goes in okay then have it forced in and bring everything down

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Posted by: Mojo.3250

Mojo.3250

What is the point of having EU servers if everything is based off US times?

hmm,let’s see.
oh,I know!
Traffic?
Traffic.
Yeah,traffic.

DUN-DUN-DUUUUUUUH

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Posted by: blue.8629

blue.8629

Impatience, stupidity or general ignorance.

Still plenty of time left in PDT, and I don’t think they are going to miss the 23rd window for the EU, as it’s 02:00 GMT…

I am still scratching my head why there is so much complaining and whinging.

Blue… My name is a colour.

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Posted by: Dinks.2478

Dinks.2478

To be honest I think the main problem has been that people have asked when the update is coming out. They have been repeatedly told ‘the 22nd’ the 22nd has come and gone for them. Whereas if someone had said instead of a copy paste response something like, ‘The update will likely not be released for another x hours.’ Most of the QQers would have looked at the post time, worked out what time it would be for them and most likely have gone to bed instead of sitting here moaning for hours that it isn’t out yet and they have been waiting for no reason.

I know a lot of people don’t use twitter and other social networking sites like that so a lot were looking at the big news on the official forum and missing the tiny little star next to the october 22nd headline, and like many others I didn’t recieve any emails about the event. I’m not complaining about this, but I do think that a more productive answer from the Devs in the structure I mentioned above would have been more productive and resulted in slightly less QQ.

If it’s 11:59 PST then I think that works out to 8 AM for us in the UK which I personaly actualy think is a decent time for an update.

The 22nd hasn’t come and gone. Anet still has 5 hours.

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Posted by: zaxziakohl.5243

zaxziakohl.5243

Why does everyone assume there are problems with the patch?

Normal update time is still 2 hours away. Why makes you think they will update any sooner than they do any other week?

Umm how about 4 years of not having to wait until after 8:55 p.m. of the posted date for release??? You guys saying that I should just wait and to stop complaining need to make your own thread like I did and stop attempting to flame and troll people who don’t care about your opinion, I am speaking for myself and I have made room for others who may feel the same way as I do. On the other hand I have not invited anyone to come and express their feelings of disagreement. Good Evening

That’s not true though. ALL their updates have been extremely late in the evening PST. This is just another update. So you may have spent the last 4 years in another game not waiting…maybe even GW1, but in this game, I’ve already grown used to staying awake late if I want to see the content, which says something. It’s called a pattern….

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Posted by: Dinks.2478

Dinks.2478

Seriously people, UK time is NOT GMT at the moment!

We are GMT + 1

It is NOT currently 2:30 GMT, it is 1:30 GMT.

Its 2:30 in the UK right now. I’m in it. and releasing an update at 4-5am really craps on your EU playerbase.

I don’t get why we have EU and US servers, I really dont

Are you kidding?! At this time the majority okitten players are in bed for example?! While most US are up? Seriously, how can you not understand US and EU servers?!?!

I don’t get what you think i’m saying… but i’ll lay it out for you.

Event releases on EU servers at 9pm CET
Event releases on US servers at 9pm PST

Not, 8pm US — 4am EU

What is the point of having EU servers if everything is based off US times?

Maybe so that EU players can play with other EU players because they are in the same timezone?

But all changes and updates take place in US time on EU servers. Thats my point

Of course they do. The developers work during US time. Why would they be updating patches when they’re at home sleeping.

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Posted by: Link.4039

Link.4039

I played Guild Wars for several years. Guild Wars 2 should first and foremost be a sequel to its predecessor. In the original Guild Wars when arenanet said an event would start they gave a very specific time. You could have made a countdown timer if you so chose. Guild Wars 2 on the other hand is showing to arenanets paying customers that their same attention to time is more than lacking. For instance, any typical Guild Wars event started at forgive me if I’m wrong but I think 6 a.m. Pacific Time so.. 8 a.m. or so in Texas where I live and I could count on that…EVERY time. I had planned on buying all of the gemstore halloween items, but now I don’t even know how many gems I will need and I wanted to be one of the first to be sporting one of these items. I have no clue when I will get to purchase them at all, unless you count before tomorrow. I believe “before tomorrow” is the most unsatisfactory timeframe I have ever heard of ever at all. Except perhaps “before I die.” So, arenanet I commend you on the quality of your game. I instead express immense displeasure with your communication and dedication to living up to the expectations of your dedicated gamers and we really deserve better than this next time.

You’re the reason developers believe their player bases are full of immature children with entitlement issues.

and you are the reason that I don’t care about other peoples opinions truth is I’m most likely older than you and 100% more mature I paid for something expecting something and I have been let down. Eat a big one if you don’t like that I’m unhappy.

Good lord. You did not pay for this update – get over yourself. Anet said the Halloween event would come Oct 22nd PST. As far as I can tell, it is still Oct 22nd PST. Would you have rather them given a specific time for the update, then had to postpone it by an hour or two? I’d have loved to see your reaction to that :l

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Posted by: Mimizu.7340

Mimizu.7340

if we all run westwards at the same time, the earth will speed up…

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Posted by: Zanryu.3417

Zanryu.3417

I played Guild Wars for several years. Guild Wars 2 should first and foremost be a sequel to its predecessor. In the original Guild Wars when arenanet said an event would start they gave a very specific time. You could have made a countdown timer if you so chose. Guild Wars 2 on the other hand is showing to arenanets paying customers that their same attention to time is more than lacking. For instance, any typical Guild Wars event started at forgive me if I’m wrong but I think 6 a.m. Pacific Time so.. 8 a.m. or so in Texas where I live and I could count on that…EVERY time. I had planned on buying all of the gemstore halloween items, but now I don’t even know how many gems I will need and I wanted to be one of the first to be sporting one of these items. I have no clue when I will get to purchase them at all, unless you count before tomorrow. I believe “before tomorrow” is the most unsatisfactory timeframe I have ever heard of ever at all. Except perhaps “before I die.” So, arenanet I commend you on the quality of your game. I instead express immense displeasure with your communication and dedication to living up to the expectations of your dedicated gamers and we really deserve better than this next time.

You’re the reason developers believe their player bases are full of immature children with entitlement issues.

and you are the reason that I don’t care about other peoples opinions truth is I’m most likely older than you and 100% more mature I paid for something expecting something and I have been let down. Eat a big one if you don’t like that I’m unhappy.

The mere fact that you believe your age is the sole factor dictating your maturity is proof that you’re not as mature as you seem to believe. You paid for Guild Wars 2, and that’s exactly what you got. You got the game you paid for which is getting a FREE Halloween update, one that in all honesty ANet is under no obligation to provide.

In the same way that you don’t care what other people think, given your attitude, I very much doubt the sane people on this forum will take your opinion seriously. Learn to be productive instead of acting superior when you’re really nothing but an immature child.

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Posted by: TwoSwords.4687

TwoSwords.4687

This is the first major content update, where is this pattern you speak of?

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Posted by: downinahole.4375

downinahole.4375

I am just hoping that if they launch the update at, say, 11pm PST on the 22nd, that the event ends at 11pm on november 1st so we don’t lose time. By the time i get the content it won’t even be the 22nd anymore. I feel like I lost a day of Act 1 play time =[

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Posted by: wemwem.2875

wemwem.2875

will that tip the devs out of bed and silence the complaining?

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Posted by: zerotheclown.8570

zerotheclown.8570

so when will it be live?

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Posted by: Zana QQFailBotQQ.3142

Zana QQFailBotQQ.3142

Tyria has seen 250 years pass since the last alleged appearance of the Mad King, and today children (and merchants) everywhere still celebrate Halloween. This year, however, whispers of strange happenings under the autumn moon haunt festival preparations, while Durmand Priory scholars struggle to make sense of dangerous energy fluctuations growing stronger by the day.

From 23 October until 2 November (European dates), Halloween goes off the rails, and you’re exactly the right person to fix it.

is what PPL get in EU from ur emails so meh

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Posted by: Dinks.2478

Dinks.2478

I am just hoping that if they launch the update at, say, 11pm PST on the 22nd, that the event ends at 11pm on november 1st so we don’t lose time. By the time i get the content it won’t even be the 22nd anymore. I feel like I lost a day of Act 1 play =[

You didn’t lose a day of Act 1. The plan was to release it at this time. There is no missed time.

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Posted by: Cole Eyre.8471

Cole Eyre.8471

None of this fills me with a terrible rage. That’s not surprising though, since I’m not prone to getting filled with terrible rage.

Honestly, I really expect to log in tomorrow morning before work and see the update then. They always released event updates in the middle of the night with GW1 so I just assumed it would be the same with GW2. After all, that schedule’s worked for them for many years now.

I’m hoping they have a wicked looking jack-o-lantern hat that we can get during this event. That would make me really happy.

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Posted by: Xethus.9518

Xethus.9518

All these people are whining about time zones and whining about when Anet said the patch would be released and whining about people whining.
The only thing I’m concerned about is possibly missing a big one time event when the patch goes live. It’s 10pm here and I unfortunately have to get up early. If I miss a one time event I’ll be genuinely upset. If the event’s for each act repeat a few times I don’t see any reason to complain.

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Posted by: Zephyrlol.8497

Zephyrlol.8497

They said after midnight.

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Posted by: hinaruto.2784

hinaruto.2784

im happy i get to watch monday night football and play the event after. i didnt have to choose between them

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Posted by: Curzon.7954

Curzon.7954

Thanks for the update just bought 15 keys and black lion chests in hopes of unlocking the halloween weapon skins . Thankfully the gem cards are cheap!

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Posted by: Devinair.5273

Devinair.5273

People need to understand ANet (Which a terrific US company) is fairly small in comparison to other huge companies (cough… Blizzard…cough). They do not yet have the resources to dedicate a group of people to update the EU servers seperately. Nor do they have the time or probably the energy to put up with so many people complaining on the forums

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Posted by: Dinks.2478

Dinks.2478

Tyria has seen 250 years pass since the last alleged appearance of the Mad King, and today children (and merchants) everywhere still celebrate Halloween. This year, however, whispers of strange happenings under the autumn moon haunt festival preparations, while Durmand Priory scholars struggle to make sense of dangerous energy fluctuations growing stronger by the day.

From 23 October until 2 November (European dates), Halloween goes off the rails, and you’re exactly the right person to fix it.

is what PPL get in EU from ur emails so meh

Yeah, Europeans have hours and hours left until they were lied to. Talk about entitlement.

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Posted by: Zhead.2675

Zhead.2675

Hi all, i just wanted to ask Anet to start including GMT times. It’s the standard.
I also would like to report tat i received no mail, thus assumed tha patch would be out at 22nd October (GMT).
I’m not complaining, im just saying that some annoyances could be avoided.

Im off now, going to sleep :p
See you all tomorrow on halloween

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Posted by: Glittergold.6823

Glittergold.6823

I came, saw no Halloween and thought okay come back later now is the time to read a book or do some leveling. Pity the trading post is down. I’ve got no bank room and a shame to have vendor these superior gems instead of put them on the trading post but then…
I can always make more..rofl.

Why are people whinging about PST/PDT?
It’s hardly an effort to go to your browser and type in PST now, 2 seconds and there’s at least three sites ready to give you Pacific standard time right now.

Yes it is free content.
You paid for the game as is, on release, any further content you don’t pay for is FREE!
The only things Arenanet charge for are, the game and any expansions and the gem store.

And no, telling you that there is millions of lines of code to work with and one wrong insert and a whole lot of bad happens is not an excuse it’s a fact.

Arena net have one of the best customer services in the gaming world, imo. They strive to put out a superior product with as few problems as possible and if they do not believe in shoddy fast fixes like some other companies, who will remain nameless, that end up affecting game quality the good on them.
I’m willing to wait for quality and I know Arena net will deliver, maybe not as soon as people would like but they will deliver.
In the end its all for you. It’s not in their best interest to alienate their player base, so be sure they are doing their best.

“That is whats wrong with the world today, everyone wants everything yesterday and no body appreciates anything they get anymore.
All these impatient people are going to be in a whole lot of trouble if the lights go out forever tomorrow.” -Celestialess

Arenanet you had me at Guild Wars.

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Posted by: jatobi.1756

jatobi.1756

All the self-entitled whinging going on in here, I’d be tempted to cancel the whole durned thing. Sheesh.

It’s a good thing you’re not a company. You’d go out of business too fast.

I hear you. For some reason, my whinometer was pegged before I even got in here.

In honesty, though, working for myself is the best thing I’ve ever done.

How long did the business last? Couldn’t have lasted long with the mentality of yours.

“Wheres my product?”

“It’s gone, I give up, you whine too much”

…yeah, I see that going real well =P.

Why is it that poor behavior from customers is OK, but problems in developing or rolling out a complicated addition to an online game – without killing the servers to do so – isn’t? They’re basically looking at this as an upgrade to an automobile – while it’s still running. You’re suggesting that a company just give in to the whines – and when the product they release is flawed, they eat it for that, too. Given that kind of customer mentality, it’s a wonder anyone even tries in the business in the first place. There’s a point when you make concessions, and a point when you fire the customer. Given the whinging by many in this thread and others, the game’d better off without ’em.

You’re getting off topic.

This isn’t about Anet not giving a product.

The entire exchange between us has been regarding the community team leader’s use of “impatient.”

It is unprofessional in any profession to call your customers name. By stating that we are “impatient” they are indeed doing so. Calling a customer impatient is not a way to win awards or money. Quite the opposite.

That’s what this is about. (Our exchange) so stop taking it elsewhere.

Do you honestly expect me to believe you run a business, then call your customers “impatient” and expect me to believe you actually make a living? I don’t think so.

Very few businesses can get away with having customers come in to buy something, and being harassed with verbal abuse, regardless of how it’s used, and expect to win them over.

Calling someone impatient can be an insult to many people.

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Posted by: zaxziakohl.5243

zaxziakohl.5243

This is the first major content update, where is this pattern you speak of?

That’s the point! It’s the first major update and everyone automatically assumes that because they want it earlier in the day, it will be posted in the middle of the day.

The Devs, and ANet employees who do updates (all of them) picked the time they do updates for a specific reason. I don’t know what that reason is, and I doubt I’ll ever find out. But if they picked that time (late evenings on Mondays’) Why would they change that for a major content update? It’s still an update….there is nothing wrong with it being at normal update time…

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Posted by: Darktruth.6243

Darktruth.6243

yes so where the US dates will be 22nd oct – 1st nov, the EU will be from the 23rd Oct – 2nd nov. Everyone gets the same amount of event time.

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Posted by: Kamelion.7629

Kamelion.7629

Considering They advertised it as the 23rd to Europeans and it is still fairly early in the night for Pacific time. They still haven’t failed to deliver their promise, and won’t for several hours.

I don’t know where you got this from as the launcher and the “read more” link are still saying 22nd October with no timezone.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/coming-soon-shadow-of-the-mad-king/?utm_source=client

“Shadow of the Mad King, the first major game release for Guild Wars 2, will go live on October 22. This new game update will include a number of new features for all of our players to enjoy, new content to explore and see, and a week-long Halloween event.”

Not that it matters though as I’m off to bed after waiting all day for it and its now 02:55 (GMT+1)

They sent out emails about this event. European emails said the 23rd.

Not to me they didn’t, and not to anyone in my guild either. As I said it doesn’t matter now. As far as I’m concerned, if they haven’t released it yet it’s because they are being sticklers for detail (as usual) and making sure its working properly before they go live.

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Posted by: Kravick.4906

Kravick.4906

It would be nice if they would actually post this information on the official forums in an easy to see place. I hate having to go to 3rd party websites to get official news. I refuse to even create a Facebook account so anything they post there I’ll never see.

Stuff goes here.

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Posted by: Wolfey.3407

Wolfey.3407

Seriously people, UK time is NOT GMT at the moment!

We are GMT + 1

It is NOT currently 2:30 GMT, it is 1:30 GMT.

Its 2:30 in the UK right now. I’m in it. and releasing an update at 4-5am really craps on your EU playerbase.

I don’t get why we have EU and US servers, I really dont

Are you kidding?! At this time the majority okitten players are in bed for example?! While most US are up? Seriously, how can you not understand US and EU servers?!?!

I don’t get what you think i’m saying… but i’ll lay it out for you.

Event releases on EU servers at 9pm CET
Event releases on US servers at 9pm PST

Not, 8pm US — 4am EU

What is the point of having EU servers if everything is based off US times?

Maybe so that EU players can play with other EU players because they are in the same timezone?

But all changes and updates take place in US time on EU servers. Thats my point

Soo what you are saying is that everyone should jam the European servers to play the new content 6 hours in advance? :o? awesome idea! lets flood a couple english and french and german servers with all americans and cause those natives to be upset for not being able to play.

Can they chose a little better time that’s a little more fair to the Western and Eastern Hemisphere? of course The argument for one timezone over another is heavily flawed though. Especially when there are plenty of sources to find out what the current PST time is by going to the in game clock and setting it to “Server Time” which is PST.

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Posted by: Dinks.2478

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@Xethus.9518

Act 1 will be live for a few days at least. They said Act 1 will be going all week.

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Posted by: Darktruth.6243

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i would really think it will be the time of your usual weekly update, time and day aswell. So im off to bed and check in the morning =)

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Posted by: Dinks.2478

Dinks.2478

yes so where the US dates will be 22nd oct – 1st nov, the EU will be from the 23rd Oct – 2nd nov. Everyone gets the same amount of event time.

Are you making kitten up? Stop making kitten up. They’re not adding a day to the events. There is no delay in the patch.

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Posted by: Chris.7653

Chris.7653

They said October 22nd, if they do it at midnight that would be October 23rd…

The Anet post I saw was a response to a forum thread, I will look for it.

Even though, isn’t it after midnight GMT anyways?

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Posted by: Grithan Soulforge.5726

Grithan Soulforge.5726

October 22nd is over on the east coast US in two hours.

Could we please not screw over the US east coast when announcing to the entire US that a patch happens on a particular day? The US was told the 22nd.

Thanks.

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Posted by: Shoki.8329

Shoki.8329

Why does everyone assume there are problems with the patch?

Normal update time is still 2 hours away. Why makes you think they will update any sooner than they do any other week?

Umm how about 4 years of not having to wait until after 8:55 p.m. of the posted date for release??? You guys saying that I should just wait and to stop complaining need to make your own thread like I did and stop attempting to flame and troll people who don’t care about your opinion, I am speaking for myself and I have made room for others who may feel the same way as I do. On the other hand I have not invited anyone to come and express their feelings of disagreement. Good Evening

That’s not true though. ALL their updates have been extremely late in the evening PST. This is just another update. So you may have spent the last 4 years in another game not waiting…maybe even GW1, but in this game, I’ve already grown used to staying awake late if I want to see the content, which says something. It’s called a pattern….

The 22nd has come and gone for quite a lot of people in the EU. Maybe not for the Americans. There was a reason I said ‘for them’.

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Posted by: Wayshuba.5912

Wayshuba.5912

Just FYI, you site says specifically 7 pm PST at the bottom. Not just sometime on October 22.

Also, for most who hear 22nd, they think prime gaming time. 10 pm-11pm EST is NOT prime gaming time. Might as well say the 23rd.

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Posted by: Cedara.9541

Cedara.9541

October 22nd is over on the east coast US in two hours.

Could we please not screw over the US east coast when announcing patch days?

Thanks.

ArenaNet has clearly expressed that they deal in PACIFIC TIME. How is that screwing East coast ppl if you can’t be bothered to read?

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Posted by: Dinks.2478

Dinks.2478

Why does everyone assume there are problems with the patch?

Normal update time is still 2 hours away. Why makes you think they will update any sooner than they do any other week?

Umm how about 4 years of not having to wait until after 8:55 p.m. of the posted date for release??? You guys saying that I should just wait and to stop complaining need to make your own thread like I did and stop attempting to flame and troll people who don’t care about your opinion, I am speaking for myself and I have made room for others who may feel the same way as I do. On the other hand I have not invited anyone to come and express their feelings of disagreement. Good Evening

That’s not true though. ALL their updates have been extremely late in the evening PST. This is just another update. So you may have spent the last 4 years in another game not waiting…maybe even GW1, but in this game, I’ve already grown used to staying awake late if I want to see the content, which says something. It’s called a pattern….

The 22nd has come and gone for quite a lot of people in the EU. Maybe not for the Americans. There was a reason I said ‘for them’.

Any European player who is upset that they didn’t get to play on the 22nd needs to learn to read their email. Where they were told the event would be live on the 23rd.