Guild Wars 2

These 3 minute warnings are beyond frustrating. I’ve never played another game where this occurs so frequently with so little warning. I hesitate to even start WvW as I cannot imagine losing gold over this.
Having this occur so consistently and repetitively as if this were ‘normal’ communicates to me that ArenaNet really does not value my time spent in their game, not to mention totally destroying any continuity or immersion.

A longer warning would be good. Also a description or explanation of why you did an unscheduled restart/shut down of the game would also be good (update patch notes).

My favorite was the other day.

New Build available 60 minutes to restart…

New Build available 55 minutes to restart…

Game restarts…. Thankfully I wasn’t in an instance, or doing anything important.

I think they should do a lot more testing so that they don’t have to hurry up and fix an exploit 3 times a day.

Were I receiving 60 minute warnings, maybe even 30, that would be reasonable. 3 minute warnings I do not consider reasonable or considerate of the people playing your game.

Bumping this, rather than starting a new topic. I’m fine with frequent updates. In fact, I’m very happy that you’re as on the ball with fixing things as you are.

For for the love of Eris and undead puppies, PLEASE give us longer warning than 3 minutes!

They should do what GW1 did and let people keep running the old build for hours.

Keep forcing a restart upon changing zones though.

I don’t mind the forced restart, but three minutes is a bit short.

I’ve had several events cut short over the last few days, unable to be completed in the three minutes before restart. One of which was the last I needed for my daily achievement, so it was a little annoying.

If they did not force restart then EVERY server would be overrun with the Hackers like Kaineng is. I say two forced restarts in 12 hour intervals would be good and may help eliminate the hackers. Atleast until they find some other means to eliminate the hackers.

So I got a build warning while in the Mad King’s Labyrinth.

I couldn’t even get out of combat in three minutes (not with the zerg, just two people near me). I have no idea where my character will be when I can eventually log in again. At worst, she’ll be all alone in the middle of the labyrinth. At best, Lion’s Arch — which is more probable, really.

But come on. If I’d been in the middle of a cave of spiders or something, I could easily see combat taking more than three minutes. And not some place I’d want to be when logging in again.