There’s a bug in today’s release that can cause soulbound items in an inventory bag other than your first bag to become soulbound to a different character on your account. We can fix the bug with no damage done, except we can’t straightforwardly fix it if you’ve moved one of those incorrectly soulbound items into bank storage. We’ll have to work on a solution for characters in that state. To prevent additional players from getting into this state, we’re going to shut down the game servers until we can fix this bug. We apologize for this inconvenience.
I’ve suffered tremendous mental anguish over this as I was in mid glide, I humbly ask you remove asuras from the game and mail me some phat lewtz to compensate. Thanks for the update.
Thanks, this is great news! My only request would be sending a server message next time before the emergency shutdown. If you did send one and I missed it, well that’s my fault. But either way, thank you!
I’ve suffered tremendous mental anguish over this as I was in mid glide, I humbly ask you remove asuras from the game and mail me some phat lewtz to compensate. Thanks for the update.
I look forward to your tales of travel as you run across every map in the game to get where you want to go. Removing Asura (and all the tech that they maintain, so every form of fast travel except teleport to friend) would also remove the gates they created and the waypoints they maintain.
Great, NOW what am I supposed to do on my lunch hour?
~frustrated sigh~
Asura characters: Zerina | Myndee | Rissa | Jaxxi | Feyyt | Bekka | Sixx | Akee | Tylee | Nuumy
| Claara
Your skin will wrinkle and your youth will fade, but your soul is endless.
Good luck fixing it, and thanks for the information. We can’t do anything about the problem, but it feels much nicer to know than to be left in the dark.
Wait, now I have to do reality 1.0?
I’m not ready for that, please hurry.
Thanks for the heads-up.
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that’s good to know, but can I recommend changing the error message when trying to log in? saying the likely cause is my router’s firewall settings is just silly!
“Gameservers have been suspended temporarily”
Here is hoping the issue will be fixed soon. I still cant wrap my head around how something like this slipped into the live environment, but alas, thats the joy and horror of software-development.
Software-Development is like a box of chocolates. you never know what catches fire first. wait, this has nothing to do with chocolate…
I will humbly suggest changing all soulbound items to account bound and eliminating soulbinding as a fix.
So much this. Soulbound items have never been anything but terrible and annoying. It’s a game mechanic that more developers should have the courage to throw away.
All morons hate it when you call them a moron. – J. D. Salinger
I’m glad I’m at work right now hahaha. Sucks for the rest of you. And if it’s not up in 2.5 hours when I’m home, well I went to bad too late last night (got wrapped up in the so not that urgent Herta achievement) so I think there’s a nap in my future anyway.
Nobody likes downtimes, but I am really grateful for your quick updates and your effort to keep us in the loop. Take your time and good luck fixing the issue. Cheers!
Just heard on teamspeak: “I just read someone doing the math, and GW2 have only had 99,997 % downtime since start”
No name mentioned! ;D downtime or uptime, such little difference!
i am severely traumatized. to compensate please send me a playable skritt character and make Taimi and Braham a couple I am sure someone as smart and adventurous as Taimi can figure out the logistics of this with ease lol .
Well, I hadn’t planned to go running until later, since it’s freaking hot & all, but apparently A-net wants me to melt(though I concur with the thanks for the info, that’s nice to encounter, I’m thoroughly sick of stealth maintenance from MMO’s)
any idea on when do you think server will be back again?
Probably when Endless Soul gets back from lunch.
~EW
So about 42 minutes then.
Asura characters: Zerina | Myndee | Rissa | Jaxxi | Feyyt | Bekka | Sixx | Akee | Tylee | Nuumy
| Claara
Your skin will wrinkle and your youth will fade, but your soul is endless.
lol I was so certain that something went wrong on my end, I didn’t even think to look here until after I submitted a ticket.
I’ve only been in the game a few months, but this is the first time I’ve run into a full-blown stoppage. Kudos to you for that, ANet team! Granted, my previous mmo experience set the bar really low, but I still appreciate the virtually ceaseless uptime I’ve had on this game since I installed it.
Just heard on teamspeak: “I just read someone doing the math, and GW2 have only had 99,997 % downtime since start”
No name mentioned! ;D downtime or uptime, such little difference!
