Guild Wars 2

Quite a while ago we were told that we would be given more advanced notice before being booted from WvW for new builds. For a while they were great about this… however it seems to continually be becoming shorter and shorter notice. I understand some things need to be patched right away, but even a 5 min warning would be a great improvement…

Yeah, really not impressed with the 30 second warning.

It should be more like 30 minutes. Surely they know if a patch will be coming at least 30 minutes beforehand.

Ragnar.4257:

Yeah, really not impressed with the 30 second warning.

It should be more like 30 minutes. Surely they know if a patch will be coming at least 30 minutes beforehand.

No way.
It’s so obvious that they just get everyone in one room with their laptops after lunch and throw together a new patch in 15 minutes with copy/pasted code.

EnRohbi.2187:

No way.
It’s so obvious that they just get everyone in one room with their laptops after lunch and throw together a new patch in 15 minutes with copy/pasted code.

I really wish I had a valid argument for this, but alas…

To me it all comes back to a lack of standards and procedures that should be consistently applied across al parts of the game.

So, er, as we were saying…

I’m sure they had their reasons. Maybe some NPC in the living story had the wrong eye color or something.

I still like that the about to be down message references a few hours instead of minutes.

Update – 12 July 2013
Bug-fixes

Removed the ability to get loot drops and experience for killing small Thundershrimp in Labyrinthine Cliffs.

UI

Added confirmation message after choosing an achievement point reward skin.

This is why we were booted from WvW earlier today with very short notice. I don’t find these to be pressing matters that justify how quickly everyone was kicked out.

I don’t even know what a Thundershrimp is.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Thundershrimp

Idk if they exist at all in WvW >.>

I seem to recall long ago that after repeated zero-notice patches (especially when Fractals was introduced), ANET said they would do better and did increase the time when inside an instance.

But I may remember wrong. Either way, 3 minutes warning in the open world is just as much kitten . At least up that to 30 mins or something. The “there will be a new build out within a couple of hours” warning is just hilarious, since it often says there is a new build out just after and give you a couple of minutes to restart.

On Piken the other day there was multiple guilds gathered to open Balthazar and where on the home stretch. Going up the hill, what happens? Why patch in 3 mins of course! Thanks for the slap in the community face ANET. There’s barely enough people to open CoF kitten and then when the community gathers for Balthazar you cut off their legs. Thanks.

Hilariously i remember this one time where they gave WvW a few hour notice. Like “New build available, you will be relogged in 2h”. And we were all like “well, thats reasonable”. And then 2min later it was “new build available, you will be relogged in 30seconds”.

Yeah… kind of annoying.

Even worse is when there’s a patch coming and they kick everyone from WvW 3 hours before the actual patch comes so everybody just hangs around in Lion’s Arch… waiting.

It’s nice to have a 3 hours notice for a patch, but it’s kinda ruined by the fact that during those 3 hours you can’t actually play wvw.

We were doing a golem rush in an enemy border land during one of these said short update notices. Ok no prob. We ported golems back to do after patch. Came back in and ALL the golems are gone. People spent gold and used allot of supply building those golems and anet just snuffed them out. That’s bs.

Given all of 5 mins again today. Was some one’s kite bugged?

I was fighting an eBay thief on my ranger, I downed him and get thrown out. I didn’t care much as I had already killed him twice before (he was a persistent bugger) but still, colda been dawn right there! Lol

bradderzh.2378:

I was fighting an eBay thief on my ranger, I downed him and get thrown out. I didn’t care much as I had already killed him twice before (he was a persistent bugger) but still, colda been dawn right there! Lol

I’ve had it happen while capping a gari. Not a tower… a frekkin’ gari. I wouldn’t care about a single kill but something like that personally…

You guys are all operating under the assumption that they actually care about anything other than PVE.