Guild Wars 2

I was browsing through reddit, and their was a discussion on how back in 2005 GW1 has been able to apply updates without the servers going down for maintenance, and only requiring a reset. Some were saying Anet has this technology patented?

Is that way some games that came out recently still have to go down like every week for a few hours?

Akrib.4297:

I was browsing through reddit, and their was a discussion on how back in 2005 GW1 has been able to apply updates without the servers going down for maintenance, and only requiring a reset. Some were saying Anet has this technology patented?

Is that way some games that came out recently still have to go down like every week for a few hours?

No. Lots of games don’t need extensive downtime to patch.

It depends on how those other companies are organised and how their servers/game clients are coded. Nothing to do with ArenaNet.