Guild Wars 2

When the game released, new builds always seemed to show up around midnight pacific time. I thought this seemed like near-peak hours, and a bad time to schedule updates.

I also thought that ArenaNet had figured that out when I stopped seeing build updates. But obviously not…there’s a build update going right now. This seems like very poor timing, making everyone log out to download a new build at peak hours. Can’t this be done sometime like tomorrow morning, when fewer players are on?

But tomorrow morning would be peak hours somewhere else.

The game is worldwide…no matter what time it is done at, there will be a lot of people online

It’s nothing more than a restart of the game and a download of the new fixed stuff. It’s not a big deal, and I’m very thankful they put this patch in tonight.

Yes, because the whole world has the same time zones….

At the VERY least, they need to make a release schedule and stick to it. This is a competitive game, people are involved in hour or even multi-hour long sieges of places in WvW and those sieges get RUINED in favor of the defender (in most cases) when the servers are bounced.

Knowing when a patch is coming would at least help.

1. They need to establish a consistent time for patches so that we can plan around them.
2. Yes, it will always be peak playing time somewhere. However, there are far fewer players in Japan, central Australia, and a strip of eastern Russia than there are in the three primary US time zones. Thus, midnight Pacific time is probably the optimal patch time because it minimizes the impact to players.

There are many time zones but there are still peak times where more players are on than other times. Weekends are peak times round the clock and are thus not good patch times. Tuesdays through Thursdays are generally the least active and thus best for patches.

Patches should be scheduled. This was not scheduled as can be seen by the lack of patch notes and no in game warnings 1 hour, 30 min, 15 min, and 5 min from patch time. And by the lack of information about it on the dev forums.

Now you know, and knowing is half the battle!

I would like to see a consistent update schedule.

However, I would also like to see the bugs fixed. So…

How about a SCHEDULED UPDATE. As in not kittening random.

Csaj.2750:

This was not scheduled as can be seen by the lack of patch notes and no in game warnings 1 hour, 30 min, 15 min, and 5 min from patch time. And by the lack of information about it on the dev forums.

You mean the patch notes that have been in the News section for the last 40 minutes or so?

Airala.8629:

Csaj.2750:

This was not scheduled as can be seen by the lack of patch notes and no in game warnings 1 hour, 30 min, 15 min, and 5 min from patch time. And by the lack of information about it on the dev forums.

You mean the patch notes that have been in the News section for the last 40 minutes or so?

Wow, weakest comeback award. Seriously though the patch notes were posted AFTER the patch. Like 10 minutes or so afterwards. Thus, at the time, there WERE no patch notes.

Don’t defend for the sake of defending. Defend cuz you truly believe it is worth defending…

They said 3 hours to make the update, when it was in fact 30 minutes. I almost lost all my time spent on eternity.