Guild Wars 2

I was just running a chain event in Harathi Hinterlands with about 100 other players when I got the countdown telling me I would be kicked in 2:45 for client update. It was between events in the chain, and I didn’t want to miss the rest, so I logged out to allow the update. Upon logging out, I find that it’s a huge update (>8500 files), and it’s coming very, very slowly (less than 100k/sec on my 60MB/sec pipe-confirmed speed via SpeakEasy). Why boot players when the servers are busy? Especially for large update? Very bush league.

indeed. nobody minds getting a forced update if it fixes issues (esp. with events) and its just a patch – not a massive game/content update – like this one. an update like this ideally ought to be on next login, or if it cant be it should be scheduled by geographical server location to occur after, say, midnight local time…