Guild Wars 2

Please give us notifications of when the servers will be down. Ideally, you should give us a schedule of when to expect a downtime.

As a primarily WvW player, I can tell you this is very frustrating. Last week, we had just finished building 5 or 6 trebs and then the server goes down. Granted, the trebs are there when the server comes back up, but none of our people are there. That means that the enemy gets to kill 5 or 6 trebs (we were closer to their spawn than ours).

Last night, the enemy was hitting a keep with a bunch of siege when you took the server down. When it came back up, we bee-lined for it to take it down stopping their siege.

You are talking about good amounts of silver and gold being lost due to unannounced server downs. If there was adequate warning of a server down, people would factor that into their strategies and plans.

At the minimum, give us an hour warning of a server down. Preferrably, give us more communication regarding a server down (a schedule or a calendar). You guys have to know when you are going to do maintenance and patchwork. It is not professional otherwise.

This has been a feature in games as far back as EQ1 (from what I can recall). Just a little communication goes a long way.

Um.

Guild Wars 2 does not have downed servers for maintenance or patching. The game runs both old and new builds at the exact same time.

A downed server is therefore a mistake, and not something they freaking schedule…This would be why there has been absolutely zero downtime for maintenance for the whole 3 months the game has been out.

I believe he meant server resets, not downtime. These usually have 1 hour warnings, but sometimes kitten happens.

WeLoveKanjimari.6725:

Um.

Guild Wars 2 does not have downed servers for maintenance or patching. The game runs both old and new builds at the exact same time.

A downed server is therefore a mistake, and not something they freaking schedule…This would be why there has been absolutely zero downtime for maintenance for the whole 3 months the game has been out.

incorrect. when they have a new build available, they close WvW 5 minutes before the restart, then give you 3 minutes to log out, patch, and log back in.

what they can do is upload the new builds without closing the servers, but there are server resets all the time.

Ya, as already mentioned there are server restarts and patches that force you to reboot. They also force WvW to restart.