Guild Wars 2

I understand how it probably seems convenient to push major patches alongside content updates. But does anybody else agree that patches should be deployed separately (ie.. day before or day after content updates).

The first day of events and/or content updates, everybody and their whole family of gamers are all trying to download the content at the same time.

To me… it would make sense to separate them so as to cut down on the size of the download that everybody is trying to get at the same time.

it would help but as is… knowone is able to download anything…. as the Connection Error(s) detected. Retrying… keeps showing up.

so even if they did it on a seperate day i dont think this would change much.

Mono.7630:

it would help but as is… knowone is able to download anything…. as the Connection Error(s) detected. Retrying… keeps showing up.

so even if they did it on a seperate day i dont think this would change much.

I think the OP’s point is that logins surge around the launch of major events.

So you end up with a larger population trying to login and slamming the download server – not to mention trying to download even larger patches.

voyager.4982:

Mono.7630:

it would help but as is… knowone is able to download anything…. as the Connection Error(s) detected. Retrying… keeps showing up.

so even if they did it on a seperate day i dont think this would change much.

I think the OP’s point is that logins surge around the launch of major events.

So you end up with a larger population trying to login and slamming the download server – not to mention trying to download even larger patches.

Precisely my point. The download servers are going to get slammed regardless. But the smaller the download, the sooner the download can be completed opening bandwidth for others still waiting.

I think they should silently release event content through patches before anouncing the event that way people are slowly but surely getting the content through multiple patches leading up to the event in their own time, rather than telling everyone the event start on the 14th then releasing the content on the same day… ofcourse there are going to be surges of players trying to get the same content downloaded.

they should do what other games do.
release the event in previous patches and then on the day flip the switch and let everyone play.

Friday doesn’t seem to be the best day to release any content or patch either. Surely there’s more people trying to play during the weekends. Not the most well though out process.