Guild Wars 2

…and pause a bit…

You created an awesome game – one that I plan to be a part of for a really long time. The Halloween event was a blast and there is still so much to do and so many projects that I want to work on. However, judging by the reaction on the forums I think its time to step back and admit that maybe you have bitten off a little more than you can chew. I will admit that I have no idea how or what is involved in running an MMO or designing one, but at this point things just feel rushed and unpolished. Furthermore, and I think a lot of players would feel the same way, I would have been more than happy to spend some time on a test server trying out this event before it went live. I would be more than happy to do that for anything that needs testing! I was kind of shocked that we were already getting new content of this magnitude considering the game launched only 2 months ago. It just seems like simple logic to realize that it would be a bad idea to implement new things that could cause problems before old problems are fixed first. Take a breather!

i’m sure the event would run fine on a test server under minimal/average load.

the issue with the event came about when everyone went there on a live server and the load pretty much killed the server for all intents.

but they need to look at what happened here take it as a lesson and really learn from it.

as it is this entire event is finished for most players, myself i’m just not even going to bother with the next ones, simply because there is no way for Anet to do anything that can resolve the issues before the next event.

they can’t install new better hardware and get it up and running for a live game by tomorrow
they can’t change how the entire event structure works by tomorrow either.

they can however not do it again, they now know the limits of their live servers and those were grossly exceeded today so anything they do in the future needs to be live server capacity….half it and were good for an experience worth playing in.

orlen.7810:

i’m sure the event would run fine on a test server under minimal/average load.

the issue with the event came about when everyone went there on a live server and the load pretty much killed the server for all intents.

but they need to look at what happened here take it as a lesson and really learn from it.

as it is this entire event is finished for most players, myself i’m just not even going to bother with the next ones, simply because there is no way for Anet to do anything that can resolve the issues before the next event.

they can’t install new better hardware and get it up and running for a live game by tomorrow
they can’t change how the entire event structure works by tomorrow either.

they can however not do it again, they now know the limits of their live servers and those were grossly exceeded today so anything they do in the future needs to be live server capacity….half it and were good for an experience worth playing in.

It’s never a hardware problem. That’s a big myth.