Guild Wars 2

Are devs immune to their own rules?

Approximately a few hours back, the devs saw fit to apply their shiny new update, without any warning or apology towards the players. This resulted in dungeon failures, lost of siege weapons, especially golems (where it takes 30-60 minutes of pve farming to even get 1 G), and general inconvenience for other people doing events. At least for Crystal desert players in WvW, there was a definitely loss of 6 golems + 1 omega golem.

However, it seems we can’t point fingers at ANet, nor complain about about it either. Everything, gets sent to the trash bin when people started posted angrily on the WvW section. Right here and right now, I’m asking very nicely.

Can we, the players get some basic respect? Warning us that you’re about to implement your builds or resets an hour ahead, will be a very good start. This isn’t the first time a sudden build took place, BUT, I do hope it will be the last.

Respectfully worded.

Uhm, dude. They posted the time of the new build. It didn’t come by surprise if you actually read the forums. (Well, they could have put the time on the launcher) They can’t postpone everything just because someone might have their golem on the ground.

SERVICE AND AVAILABILITY

You acknowledge that Service may be interrupted for reasons within or beyond the control of NCsoft, that NCsoft cannot and does not guarantee You will be able to use the Game or any Account whenever You wish to do so, that NCsoft will interrupt the Service on a regular basis for purposes of maintenance or updates and may do so without providing You with notice before such interruption, and that NCsoft may provide subsequent versions, enhancements, modifications, upgrades or patches related to the Software that You must accept and/or install before You will be able to use the Game.

And like Arquin said, they did give warning already.

SpyderArachnid.5619:

SERVICE AND AVAILABILITY

You acknowledge that Service may be interrupted for reasons within or beyond the control of NCsoft, that NCsoft cannot and does not guarantee You will be able to use the Game or any Account whenever You wish to do so, that NCsoft will interrupt the Service on a regular basis for purposes of maintenance or updates and may do so without providing You with notice before such interruption, and that NCsoft may provide subsequent versions, enhancements, modifications, upgrades or patches related to the Software that You must accept and/or install before You will be able to use the Game.

And like Arquin said, they did give warning already.

They gave a warning? No one in the WvW server at that time knew anything about an update. They all went ahead as a zerg, and not once did anyone say something about “Guys, are you sure about building so many golems? I heard there’s an update!?”

Nope. So when the reach of anet was to inform players outside of the game, it has the probable reach of 0.01% of the population in the game. And if this is a “scheduled update”, the way how it was done obviously did not reach the masses at all. The only other explanation is some extreme game breaking bug that will upset the economy or cause some other errors.

Just simply using the “service may be interrupted” isn’t good enough. It could have been handled so much better, and that is what ANet should have done in this case.

Well… I do agree that they could and should put announcements in game around 1h before the patch, if they are planned of course and I think most are.
It allows players to better plan their own schedule, especially in WvWvW.

LoneWolfie.1852:

SpyderArachnid.5619:

SERVICE AND AVAILABILITY

You acknowledge that Service may be interrupted for reasons within or beyond the control of NCsoft, that NCsoft cannot and does not guarantee You will be able to use the Game or any Account whenever You wish to do so, that NCsoft will interrupt the Service on a regular basis for purposes of maintenance or updates and may do so without providing You with notice before such interruption, and that NCsoft may provide subsequent versions, enhancements, modifications, upgrades or patches related to the Software that You must accept and/or install before You will be able to use the Game.

And like Arquin said, they did give warning already.

They gave a warning? No one in the WvW server at that time knew anything about an update. They all went ahead as a zerg, and not once did anyone say something about “Guys, are you sure about building so many golems? I heard there’s an update!?”

Nope. So when the reach of anet was to inform players outside of the game, it has the probable reach of 0.01% of the population in the game. And if this is a “scheduled update”, the way how it was done obviously did not reach the masses at all. The only other explanation is some extreme game breaking bug that will upset the economy or cause some other errors.

Just simply using the “service may be interrupted” isn’t good enough. It could have been handled so much better, and that is what ANet should have done in this case.

I do agree. They should broadcast gamewide messages 1 or 2 hours before the build and after that every 30 min. Not good enough just slapping it alongside some “Act 4 runtime info”

E. Lol Cherrie said everything I intended to put i’m too blind to read.