Guild Wars 2

“To ensure a solid rollout, we’ll turn on the LFG tool in beta form to a subset of players. As the week goes on, we’ll periodically unlock the system to additional groups of players.”

So does this mean it is more like a “stress test”? And does this mean they will unlock it very fast to other players and everone will have access soon? Or will it take longer?

Most likely depends on how it goes.

I would assume it will give access to a large group at first, and slowly increase the number of players having access to it over the week.

Are you serious? Well, there goes my hope for a good patch today. Stuck using gw2lfg that doesn’t work half the time. Next thing you know you’ll be forced to buy it if you want access to it….

AtlasSi.9130:

Are you serious? Well, there goes my hope for a good patch today. Stuck using gw2lfg that doesn’t work half the time. Next thing you know you’ll be forced to buy it if you want access to it….

So you would rather have something pushed live with everyone having access, thus risking crashing it completely and making it unusable for several weeks?

Also this isn’t really news, we got this information on these very forums last week.

lordkrall.7241:

So you would rather have something pushed live with everyone having access, thus risking crashing it completely and making it unusable for several weeks?

Also this isn’t really news, we got this information on these very forums last week.

Imo yes I’d rather have it that way. Less people means more time for bugs to be found…meaning it still might take several weeks anyway to get a full release. Since they decided to slowly release it to everyone.

AtlasSi.9130:

Imo yes I’d rather have it that way. Less people means more time for bugs to be found…meaning it still might take several weeks anyway to get a full release. Since they decided to slowly release it to everyone.

It is highly unlikely that this is a bug-beta test but rather a stability one.
If they put it on with millions of people using it at the same time and it crashes they won’t really be able to test much at all.

Releasing it slowly would make it possible to adjust the servers and system in order to accommodate the whole player base gradually, rather than just having everyone crash it at once.

lordkrall.7241:

It is highly unlikely that this is a bug-beta test but rather a stability one.
If they put it on with millions of people using it at the same time and it crashes they won’t really be able to test much at all.

Releasing it slowly would make it possible to adjust the servers and system in order to accommodate the whole player base gradually, rather than just having everyone crash it at once.

How can you really get a stability test out with a small percent of people out of…millions? Half might not even play actively and half of that might not even have a use for it? Still…weeks until a full release.

AtlasSi.9130:

lordkrall.7241:

It is highly unlikely that this is a bug-beta test but rather a stability one.
If they put it on with millions of people using it at the same time and it crashes they won’t really be able to test much at all.

Releasing it slowly would make it possible to adjust the servers and system in order to accommodate the whole player base gradually, rather than just having everyone crash it at once.

How can you really get a stability test out with a small percent of people out of…millions? Half might not even play actively and half of that might not even have a use for it? Still…weeks until a full release.

It’s like trying to see how many people fit into a small boat before it capsizes. You can’t start by dumping tons of people into the boat because it will likely capsize right away and you’ll have learned nothing. You’ve gotta ease a few in at a time first or you’ll never know what the current “tipping point” is. They need data to work with.

Even though not a lot of people will be able to use it right away, I am just glad they are coming out with a LFG tool at all. The ones online are terrible especially if you end up losing someone part way through dungeon. I would rather the tool be bug free and work rather than being frustrated with it just because they pushed it out so everyone can use it right off the bat. People will complain either way.