Guild Wars 2

On both Friday and Saturday night (EST), I got the message in game that a new build was available and the server would restart in three minutes. I was kicked just before I started a dungeon on Friday (whew). I am on Yaks Bend (not sure if it was just our server or the entire community who got restarted).

I understand the need to hot-fix issues or deploy emergency code, but three minutes warning in prime time is painful.

Have any of you seen an ArenaNet explanation?
Seems like there could be a better time to kick everybody out of the game.

Ulari

What would be a ‘good’ time to do it?

This is how they patch, instead of like other MMOs with hours and hours of downtime you get to play almost 100% of the time with limited restarts. Stop crying about it.

Don’t worry you won’t get kicked out of a dungeon as the timer is longer for dungeons. Agree it would be nice if they gave us a bit longer than 3 minutes in the open world, but haven’t had a problem with it so far.

if your inside a dungeon when a new build is available you are given 3 hours rather than 3 minutes, the same is true for personal story instances.

you just got it at a real bad time just before entering a dungeon, and as stated before this method is far superior to any other mmo’s patching system.

Thanks for the considerate responses.
I did not know that we were given three hours rather than three minutes in a dungeon or personal story instance. That makes it much less painful.

Any clue how it works in WvWvW? I admit I am not sure where to look.

Omega: Because you asked… Deploy it any time, just give more notice. ArenaNet is in a much better position than me to pick what time impacts the least number of their users.

Teulux: I am not and was not crying.

Ulari

I agree that the quick patches are great.

I wish there was a bit more advanced notice.

Note that 3 minutes is generally less time than a D.E. or champion fight. Some of the personal story instances take closer to a half-hour. If they have the build ready to go at 5:15 pm, would it hurt to push it at 5:45 instead of 5:18?