Guild Wars 2

So, patch notes were posted 3.5 hours ago, around the same time WvW went down. It’s been over 4 hours since the message for a new build in 1-2 hours. When is the patch hitting? Bit annoying to be locked out of WvW for so long.

sPvP is down as well… -_-

was wondering about this myself

One can assume that this is due to some issues they are having, so they are most likely working kitten getting it out asap.

lordkrall.7241:

One can assume that this is due to some issues they are having, so they are most likely working kitten getting it out asap.

Probably, but some communication on a timeframe would be awesome, as well as putting SPvP/WvW back up until patch is ready.

I hope it’s soon. Tuesdays I have to leave the computer at 5:30 eastern and not return to it until much later or on Wednesday. I’d love some time to explore the patch before I have to go. Right now I have three hours, plenty of time. Two hours will work. One hour I’ll just be getting into things when I have to go …

/crosses fingers for SOON.

It is getting on the side of ridiculous…

4 hours of downtime for WvW/PvP during EU primetime is not good.

Vayra.3290:

Probably, but some communication on a timeframe would be awesome, as well as putting SPvP/WvW back up until patch is ready.

They gave a timeframe when they announced the patch was incoming, “within the next 1-2 hours”. They are most likely not going to give a new timeframe until they actually know what is going on.

As for putting sPvP/WvW back online that could very much be part of the problem for all we know.

I remember back in my day when the whole game needs to be down for 4-8 hours every week for maintenance and we actually have to go out gasp of our room!

Joking aside, it will be up when it is ready. No point rushing and getting people frustrated when something goes wrong.

really annoying

at least put back wvw n pvp while they sort this crap out

Bogy.2953:

really annoying

at least put back wvw n pvp while they sort this crap out

Yea, Why the hell do they take wvw + pvp down so early? They could just leave them open like pve and close when the kitten patch is ready.

Colly.4073:

Yea, Why the hell do they take wvw + pvp down so early? They could just leave them open like pve and close when the kitten patch is ready.

They are most likely not built the same way the PvE server are and could therefore be more likely to screw something up with a patch.

This makes me really nervous as to what new bugs will pop up from the new update….

It just started!

lordkrall.7241:

Colly.4073:

Yea, Why the hell do they take wvw + pvp down so early? They could just leave them open like pve and close when the kitten patch is ready.

They are most likely not built the same way the PvE server are and could therefore be more likely to screw something up with a patch.

The reason why they take down WvW before a patch …

When they put out a patch they have two versions of the server running at the same time, the old one and the new one. This is why, with a short patch, you can exit the game as soon as you get the 3 minute warning and be back in before some people have even left yet.

This is also why people doing dungeons have 3 hours to finish, but as they leave they’ll get kicked out (and they can’t bring in replacements because they are on a different client version).

Having two versions of WvW running at the same time would not really work. This is why WvW is shut down until the patch is done.

Why they shut WvW down so long before the patch this time I can’t tell you. I suspect it’s taking longer than expected, and a lot of the time when something like this comes up it’s hard even for the people fixing it to give a time estimate, so they’re not going to bring it up again just to have to bring it down again in what could only be minutes.