Guild Wars 2

who else is getting sick of them…
i sure am, after having a hour long battle conclude in anet winning

its a new build release, not a reset.

You get warning (in 15 minutes)

I don’t like it either, We just started at sm inner with some superiors and bam we get this -_-

We were promised an hours notice not 3 secs

They most likely had to introduce some emergency fix.

Probably a reduce in dye drop rate or something similar.

Just remember that server updates causing wvw to shut down is clear proof that Anet secretly favors [Insert hated WvW opponent here].

The real question is, what do you propose to do about it? New updates have to happen, and it’s not like WvW can magically continue to function without it?

And what would a warning accomplish except to prolong the amount of time you’re given to whine about it?

Gab Superstar.4059:

They most likely had to introduce some emergency fix.

Probably a reduce in dye drop rate or something similar.

It’s even worse

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-February-21-2013

:D

The reset always happens on Friday 4 pm PST.
Btw, the 20% discount for bank extension doesn’t impress me much.
I want a larger discount (at least 40-50% discount) for bank extension ^-^

ANet has a pretty phenomenal uptime on their WvW servers. I would guess it hovers around 99% which is impressive for a recently released MMO. I suggest we all should be happy that we have stable servers and great up time.

crystalpink.2487:

The reset always happens on Friday 4 pm PST.
Btw, the 20% discount for bank extension doesn’t impress me much.
I want a larger discount (at least 40-50% discount) for bank extension ^-^

Probably not the reason for the shutdown. The store is an entirely different system that seems to be web based. I doubt they have to take anything offline to update the store unless it is a new item.

Anet doesnt have to take anything offline to put something on sale. Anets servers are very compartmentalized, for example on release the BLTC was down most of the time but the game still operated, we had moments were the guild servers etc were down, but the game still operated.

I know other games where if one part of it stopped working it would just bring the whole system down entirely.

one neat thing is the servers dont really go down through the patch, they just flip to the new version, let people finish out their instances in the old version while new logins load into the new version. The only place this cant apply is wvw, because you cant have 2 versions of wvw up at the same time.

Shame it isn`t like Guild Wars.
If something was needed patching, you got a message saying it would patch the next time you started the game.
Fairly sure pre-release they said it`d be the same for gw2 /shrugs
Understandable if it was something urgent, but otherwise…

Fishbait.6723:

Shame it isn`t like Guild Wars.
If something was needed patching, you got a message saying it would patch the next time you started the game.
Fairly sure pre-release they said it`d be the same for gw2 /shrugs
Understandable if it was something urgent, but otherwise…

GW1 was instanced; In GW2 instances, this is exactly what happens.

Straegen.2938:

crystalpink.2487:

The reset always happens on Friday 4 pm PST.
Btw, the 20% discount for bank extension doesn’t impress me much.
I want a larger discount (at least 40-50% discount) for bank extension ^-^

Probably not the reason for the shutdown. The store is an entirely different system that seems to be web based. I doubt they have to take anything offline to update the store unless it is a new item.

/facepalm

You quoted the wrong person.
You should have quoted Ironvos, instead.
I didn’t even say the shop changing was the reason for the shutdown.

Thor.1756:

Just remember that server updates causing wvw to shut down is clear proof that Anet secretly favors [Insert hated WvW opponent here].

The real question is, what do you propose to do about it? New updates have to happen, and it’s not like WvW can magically continue to function without it?

And what would a warning accomplish except to prolong the amount of time you’re given to whine about it?

What do you mean what would the warning accomplish? I could finish attacking a tower, or a keep or whatever, basically it lets you finish what you are doing before it boots….

I am software developer…let me just use that excuse at my company next time. Next time I need to do an update, I won’t warn anyone and just shut down their whole system for 15 min without any warning since what good would it do them anyway….

It’s asinine and terrible developer protocol in any environment. Why can’t they just give your warning message 15…30 min…whatever time increment BEFORE they have to install the update….it’s not like they don’t KNOW there is going to be an update….Or maybe there developers are so inept they NEED TO DO IT RIGHT NOW IN 30 SECONDS OR THE GAME WILL EXPLODE lol.

It’s horse crap and lazy coding practice IMO, they don’t want to waste time with the warning so they just give you the boot.

This whole junk about having to boot WvW first before the update….fine….but give people a warning…its absolutely AWFUL, most developers would get the boot for doing stuff like this… lol, pretty much every other game I can think of give you an advanced warning..its just common sense.

lol next time I need to update the systems I work with say good bye to credit cards across the country when I do it during the middle of the day rather than out of hours just to be convenient to myself rather than the customer.

For something that needs to happen ASAP, I can accept how they currently do it, but with what reasons we’ve been given for most updates, they should just wait til match reset to implement them.

This was important had to setup a sale on the gem store for bags slots!!!!

deviller.9135:

You get warning (in 15 minutes)

Well that didn’t happen today, sadly. We got notification of the new build and 30 seconds later off we were booted.

Very sick of this first time i have seen Blacktide start to make a diffrence server restart for update (convinient for certain time zones) and boom nobody bothers to come back on because it is to late.

Blacktide pushed back again.

ThomasKreshant.6572:

This was important had to setup a sale on the gem store for bags slots!!!!

I laughed at this, then checked and there was actually a new sale. -face palm-

But yeah, this has to stop.

Hi everyone,

We are sorry that the patch deployment caused problems in the W3 matches, but we would like you all to understand that the team can’t have every possible scenario in mind while deploying a patch – some way or the other, its almost 100% sure the patch will interrupt a quest or some other important event.

As stated, we understand your frustration, no one likes getting kicked in the middle of an important quest or an instance, and we will forward your concerns to the team.

We thank you all for your feedback and opinions. We are closing this thread to prevent frustration to lead to flaming or derailing.

Thanks for your understanding.