Guild Wars 2

This is truly starting to to frustrate me. The constant server crashes lately can be understood up until now. It’s been a week and there’s a “repair” (LOL) everyday. These server fixes do little to fix the constant crashing everyone has been having and in some cases locks players out. It seems whenever I have 200% participation my game ALWAYS crashes and I lose out on the better loot and exp. This has happened about nine times and I’m about to say forget the meta event’s because I lose out at the end anyway. It almost seems as some maps are suffering player lose because of this. This has been going on for a week ANET needs to figure this out or at least refund players for the consistent disconnections and lose of progress in zones.

Anyone else experiencing this issue??

You know what’s just as bad as that? Having the game crash RIGHT after completing a meta (like Tarir) and you logging back in, but being shot to another mega server, losing the actual rewards you are able to get (the chests down below Tarir) for your hard work.

It completely deflates and ambition to even bother with these events if you can’t even maintain participation or even collect rewards because of server/game issues.

I was even thinking of dropping money for that beginner thing with the bag slots and harvesting tools that is on a timed sale, but nope. Not gonna bother now.

This has been a longstanding issue with the game that crashing will void all your efforts. There’s gotta be some way to give credit.

They just need a temp reserve system. your character “stays” on the map for 3-5 minutes until it A goes to another server B log into another character. That way if you DC you get all your rewards AND get back on the map.

I shouldn’t have to join a party and spam join server for 15 minutes hopeing to get back into a meta server i played on for an hour and a half and d/ced because of w/e new “fatal error crap” they launched with the expo. Never once had an issue before this expansion…

and its fun when your doing Dragon Stand for 1:30 min finaly get into last boss area and DC ….. log back into full map can not conect to the rest of your party = loose out on all the time and effort to do it just to be locked out because of full map .
happend to me 4 times today.

not fun

OneKlicKill.4285:

They just need a temp reserve system. your character “stays” on the map for 3-5 minutes until it A goes to another server B log into another character. That way if you DC you get all your rewards AND get back on the map.

I shouldn’t have to join a party and spam join server for 15 minutes hopeing to get back into a meta server i played on for an hour and a half and d/ced because of w/e new “fatal error crap” they launched with the expo. Never once had an issue before this expansion…

+1

shonn.5037:

and its fun when your doing Dragon Stand for 1:30 min finaly get into last boss area and DC ….. log back into full map can not conect to the rest of your party = loose out on all the time and effort to do it just to be locked out because of full map .
happend to me 4 times today.

not fun

Same thing happens to me. Im 2 for 6 today on actually getting credit in Dragon Stand.

Well at roughly 2am est I got disconnected yet again. However this time I managed to come back with my Event participation still full. Was this a fluke or was something ninja’d in while we were playing? LOL. Well only way to find out is to d/c again and see what happens. Shouldn’t take too long for results to come in haha.

twice yesterday i got a game crash in dragon stand when motormouth was at 5% health.
then a network error when trying to get back on the right map and from the anger and sudden appearance of tags on a map with no meta progress it looked like the whole map crashed.

This happens too often. The only way around I’ve spotted is going in a party with someone so that if we crash we can return to the shard we were in. The progress is saved, actually, but we often get dumped in a different shard and other than being in a party wthere is no way to return,

EthanLightheart.9168:

OneKlicKill.4285:

They just need a temp reserve system. your character “stays” on the map for 3-5 minutes until it A goes to another server B log into another character. That way if you DC you get all your rewards AND get back on the map.

I shouldn’t have to join a party and spam join server for 15 minutes hopeing to get back into a meta server i played on for an hour and a half and d/ced because of w/e new “fatal error crap” they launched with the expo. Never once had an issue before this expansion…

+1

+2

hardy.7469:

You know what’s just as bad as that? Having the game crash RIGHT after completing a meta (like Tarir) and you logging back in, but being shot to another mega server, losing the actual rewards you are able to get (the chests down below Tarir) for your hard work.

It completely deflates and ambition to even bother with these events if you can’t even maintain participation or even collect rewards because of server/game issues.

I was even thinking of dropping money for that beginner thing with the bag slots and harvesting tools that is on a timed sale, but nope. Not gonna bother now.

I hear this. Just had it happen to me.

I crash during the Dragon’s Stand event probably 90% of the time. I don’t think I’ve completed the meta event in Auric Basin ONCE without crashing at some point during it. These two zones/events are, at least for me, much worse than the other two. I have crashed in the other two, just not nearly as often as the almost 100% chance DC rate I have in DS/AB.

The constant crashes are annoying. The fact that you are almost always unable to rejoin the map you were previously on after a crash is annoying. These two things, separately, are bad enough, but together it just makes trying to do meta events an absolute nightmare.
There needs to be a MUCH higher priority on either implementing a fix for the crashes, or implementing map-protection for ~1-3 minutes. It’s so frustrating to crash and be back in the game within 30 seconds just to find that the map is full and I can’t rejoin the people I was playing with.
Not to mention the fact that the crashes, while they do happen randomly sometimes, usually happen during the huge meta events that people actually want to complete. There are very few things worse than spending an hour and a half in Dragon’s Stand just to have your game crash… and then reload into a new map with zero progress, trying to join your friend for the next 10 minutes. At which point they kill the boss without you.

The icing on the cake is, not only do you lose out on the XP, loot bags, etc, you also lose out on the ability to access the areas unlocked after the event is completed (usually). Both of these maps have timed rewards (chests below in AB, and the vendor and map exploration opportunity in DS), so even after the event ends the maps stay full until the timers are over.

Please change SOMETHING to make this a better experience. The expansion is great, but the crashes are ruining it.

Rofl. So I crash out of Dragon’s Stand during the last event, but “luckily” I get back in after 10 minutes, just to crash out again a minute later – unable to get “lucky” and get in a second time. No problem, I’ll just spend another 2 hours doing the entire event over again so I can get to the vendor at the end. Just kidding. What I meant to say was I’ll do the entire event again, just to crash in the middle of the last boss fight again, unable to rejoin my original map, again. Thanks for that.