Guild Wars 2

Started about 11 PM PST last night and is still a problem this morning.

I am in Shelton, WA. Happened during game with no changes to my system. Was playing for hours and this suddenly started happening. Games starts up okay, but after less than a minute get the error message and back to character select screen.

To fix tried, Rebooting Windows 7 machine, rebooted router/modem, added game to firewall, disabled firewall, still get the message. Game is unplayable, obviously.

Help.

About an hour after posting this it works again. Without me changing anything. It is a mystery.

When people say “the cloud” they really mean “other people’s computers”; sounds like what happened in your case is that one of the dozen or so routers or computers between your client and the ANet servers had a problem.

Then the problem was fixed, but whatever third party unrelated to either of you that runs it. Which was this strange, “nothing changed on either end”, problem that just went away.