Guild Wars 2

Anet said they move reset day on saturday, because we are finally stable after 3 years of fixing the rubber banding and skill lags.

John Corpening.9847:

Hello All,
There are a couple of reasons for the change to reset time. One is for the overall quality of the game. The last few years we have been careful to not disrupt the WvW reset time but this has at times made it difficult for our team to address issues during reset day. This change will give our team an extra day of the week that they can use to respond to issues that may occur with WvW or any other area of the game if it is necessary. In the early days we wanted reset to be during a weekday to ensure we had people available to monitor the game at reset time, but at this point we have seen the ongoing stability of World vs. World and resetting on a weekday is no longer necessary.

John

T3 server, currently entire server has 3-4 seconds skill lag. My personal ping is 58ms, stability and healing skills dont go off. (and we are not even on EB) . So much for fixes and excuse to move reset day on saturday.

Is this another “Trust us” move?
I think we have to get some facts straight?

I just moved my main account off T3 and the skill delay was a big part of the reason why.
Sure am glad to hear WvW is running so smoothly and that this is why I will now be missing every reset.

I think it’s not fair to take words out of context. I don’t think they were talking about server performance. They might have been talking about the routine and WvW has more or less been running on the same schedule (golem weeks excluded). Also, I really haven’t been lagging or skill lagged in anywhere besides EB— that map DOES seem problematic.

On the other hand, stability HAS been nerfed, so maybe they should reconsider the wording.

Just try these changes before QQ, im sure ANET doing it for some good reasons ,if all fails then we all make mass complains .

swellercross.3974:

Just try these changes before QQ, im sure ANET doing it for some good reasons ,if all fails then we all make mass complains .

A lot of us can’t try it because we have responsibilities that prevent us from sitting around playing video games in the middle of the day, that’s the kittening problem.

Puck.9612:

swellercross.3974:

Just try these changes before QQ, im sure ANET doing it for some good reasons ,if all fails then we all make mass complains .

A lot of us can’t try it because we have responsibilities that prevent us from sitting around playing video games in the middle of the day, that’s the kittening problem.

Its always the middle of the day for some people, night for some, afternoon for others.

ArchonWing.9480:

I think it’s not fair to take words out of context. I don’t think they were talking about server performance.

Exactly! I thought it was obvious he’s refering to the reset process and match-making roll process. Please close this thread too.

TPMN.1483:

Puck.9612:

swellercross.3974:

Just try these changes before QQ, im sure ANET doing it for some good reasons ,if all fails then we all make mass complains .

A lot of us can’t try it because we have responsibilities that prevent us from sitting around playing video games in the middle of the day, that’s the kittening problem.

Its always the middle of the day for some people, night for some, afternoon for others.

Well, if we’re talking about NA servers, then you have to look at it from that perspective. Sure, we have some EU, some OCX, some SEA, but as an NA server, the vast majority of players are NA. Therefore, the new reset time is in the morning. Most NA servers have poor EU coverage, as they have their own servers. The people truly screwed are the OCX players, as they are English speaking and don’t have their own servers, therefore, they play on NA.

ArchonWing.9480:

I think it’s not fair to take words out of context. I don’t think they were talking about server performance. They might have been talking about the routine and WvW has more or less been running on the same schedule (golem weeks excluded). Also, I really haven’t been lagging or skill lagged in anywhere besides EB— that map DOES seem problematic.

On the other hand, stability HAS been nerfed, so maybe they should reconsider the wording.

I think you are right about what he was talking about, but this change will undue significant amounts of the stability he is touting. Saturday afternoon is, if anything, worse than Saturday night. This is really going to be a challenge to get guilds in during NA prime as many many folks will just jump in during the afternoon, and not leave.

This smells alot like population molding on ANet’s part. Bear with me here conspiracy theory incoming.

Anet sees T1 guilds, and after an exodus of GvG guilds leaving T2, T2 guilds staying put. This runs contrary to what they thought would happen with the locking of servers, and their desire for guilds to move down to populate the lower tiers. Anet sees that their plan is not working, and decides they need to help it along. Some /s wunderkind /s on ANet’s staff decides to try to make a play to get ANet upper management to notice them. They propose moving reset day to a day that would, at best, inconvenience a ton of WvW players. ANet’s upper management, without any better idea of their own, embrace this person’s idea, and congratulate everyone on a job well done. WvW community flips their collective lids, and ANet is /s SHOCKED /s that their wonderful idea is scorned. So in a panic move they make it worse by making WvW reset occur on a Saturday afternoon.

TPMN.1483:

Puck.9612:

swellercross.3974:

Just try these changes before QQ, im sure ANET doing it for some good reasons ,if all fails then we all make mass complains .

A lot of us can’t try it because we have responsibilities that prevent us from sitting around playing video games in the middle of the day, that’s the kittening problem.

Its always the middle of the day for some people, night for some, afternoon for others.

Yeah but who is this convenient for? This is like 2-5 am for ocx/sea players, it’s the morning/midday for na players. The only one it kind of works for is euro players but they have their own servers.

Why pick a time that inconveniences the most amount of players? Is this their fix for server lag and queue times?

Puck.9612:

I just moved my main account off T3 and the skill delay was a big part of the reason why.
Sure am glad to hear WvW is running so smoothly and that this is why I will now be missing every reset.

It’s not running smoothly at all,been lagging my kitten off for the most prt of the evening in eb tonight.I doubt they meant that with what they said.

Caedmon.6798:

Puck.9612:

I just moved my main account off T3 and the skill delay was a big part of the reason why.
Sure am glad to hear WvW is running so smoothly and that this is why I will now be missing every reset.

It’s not running smoothly at all,been lagging my kitten off for the most prt of the evening in eb tonight.I doubt they meant that with what they said.

yeah but by picking such a kittenty reset time there will be less people playing so the game won’t lag as much.

Yeah this is how I see it.

With moving the reset time to a less busy part of the day they preventing the massive queue to occur. The biggest part of the players are going to log in between afternoon and early night so the stress on the servers are lessened somehow.

Also since practically there is/was no point to log in Friday afternoon to play wvw everybody organised their time to play Friday night.

With this change somebody can log in any time Saturday and enjoy the new match.

Aggrostemma.1703:

Yeah this is how I see it.

With moving the reset time to a less busy part of the day they preventing the massive queue to occur. The biggest part of the players are going to log in between afternoon and early night so the stress on the servers are lessened somehow.

Also since practically there is/was no point to log in Friday afternoon to play wvw everybody organised their time to play Friday night.

With this change somebody can log in any time Saturday and enjoy the new match.

Yeah except they changed it back to the original time change of Sat afternoon/evening for NA.