Guild Wars 2

Thanks for the heads up that WvWvW was coming down, 3 seconds beforehand, we appreciate it.

I wouldn’t be so mad if this were the first time, or even the second, sadly, it’s not even close….

Suggestion : A little communication would go a long way, Anet, thanks.

Well ignoring your somewhat displeased disposition, you do bring up a good point, there isn’t really a good way in game (well their is the launcher but yeah) for ANet to communicate with the players. Sure they can send system wide messages but some sort of permanent billboard / message-thing in game would be useful so we can check any important events like a server restart or something.

In other games I have played there was always a 30 – 60 minutes warning. Which was repeated ever 10 or 5 minutes and in the last 5 minutes every minute.
I wondered this myself why there is no real announcement in game with a more reasonable time frame and repetition. 5 or 3 minutes before shutdown / restart is kinda rude. I doubt it is all the time an emergency more likely an in advanced known action coming up.

Cosmic.6047:

In other games I have played there was always a 30 – 60 minutes warning. Which was repeated ever 10 or 5 minutes and in the last 5 minutes every minute.
I wondered this myself why there is no real announcement in game with a more reasonable time frame and repetition. 5 or 3 minutes before shutdown / restart is kinda rude. I doubt it is all the time an emergency more likely an in advanced known action coming up.

This, exactly.

I understand there are times when it’s an emergency, but I don’t think that more than half the time constitutes an emergency patch/shutdown of the servers.

Luckily, we weren’t in our Fractal run like the last time they did this, so I guess I should be happy, hehe