Guild Wars 2

Hello all,

This post/question is directed towards the developers…

Years ago when I was an avid Eve Online player, I used to be fascinated when they would release details about all the high-end hardware they were using to make their system(s) work (which, at the time, was Fusion IO based SSDs, which they were using about 6-7 years before consumer-level SSDs came out).

As a gear head who hosts dedicated servers for a few games, I would simply find it fascinating to know what kind of hardware/backend stuff it takes to host this kind of game.

Understandable if you guys consider that kind of info proprietary, but I think a “behind the scenes” look at the hardware would be welcomed by quite a few of my fellow nerds.

;)

They have mentioned stuff like that in presentations at conferences like GDC. You might be able to find some of those online.

There might be some information here: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1016640/Guild-Wars-2-Programming-the

I have to admit I haven’t watched all the videos, just the ‘no downtime for builds’ one because that’s what I was interested in when someone linked me to the site. I feel kind of guilty that I just take it for granted that GW2 (and GW1) are always online when I want to play, it wasn’t until I started playing another MMO, which is shut down for several hours once a week for maintenance, that I realised how unusual this is.

given it’s an uphill struggle to get ANet to give details even about their product, I wish you the best of luck in attempting to extract blood from this stone

JustTrogdor.7892:

;)

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