Guild Wars 2

Whats going on, just wondering?

omg…. same problem here. Either I get disconnected in 10 seconds after loading in, or I can’t even log in.

same here but on now.
edit: disconnected again

I’ve gotten back on three times now and kicked within five minutes after massive lag every single time. Would really love to hear what’s up.

anet is being under a ddos attack

experiencing the same problem as well, may be a routing issue some where?

Not another Scarlet trick

I’m on US server and it has been crashing and DC’ing me the last 20 or so minutes. I manage to log back on to be dumped again within a minute. I’ve had to give up playing and go do some chores

Got dc-ed and now can’t log in again.. if I do manage to log in and click Play nothing happens, I get stuck at the character selection screen. And then I get dc-ed again.

got in for a bit, but again DC!

It’s very difficult to craft right now. This is not good. Everyone in map chat is repeatedly getting disconnected. I assume the GW2 servers are under attack, and some attacks can be very hard to block. It’s the Server end, not the client end. Don’t trouble shoot your home network or computer.

The “DDOS attack” is probably everyone trying to log back in…

I haven’t been able to login at all. Says I need to authenticate, do that and still can’t log in….wait I may get in! But for how long.

Wraithen.6059:

The “DDOS attack” is probably everyone trying to log back in…

No, a DDOS group called kitten Trolling that was active in early January just started up again a couple of days ago… they were posting comments on their twitter just as the servers went down but have since deleted them.

Without a doubt it’s them. It’s not just GW2, all NCsoft related games went down (GW1, Aion, Wildstar, etc)

(apparently I can’t spell their whole name here since it’s a “swear” word although it really isn;t…)

Nostradamus.8735:

so a ddos, ok but where can we see the server status?

Is it really a ddos when all the american servers are listed as veryhigh in population if not full. ARENANET SHOULD GET MORE SERVERS.

It has nothing to do with the ANet servers. These people have taken down every major game recently. League of Legends, Blizzard Games, etc etc.

They also took down a lot of other things including security companies. ANet can’t be blamed at all for this. Hopefully they can fix it soon.

I’m back in again now, you might want to give it another try

Ok I spoke too soon sigh

I’m having issues too. Couldn’t even respawn after I was lagged to death.

I got back in again for about a good 15 minutes only to have my party member disconnect and then myself follow a few minutes later.

I’ve been using this site (http://www.mmoserverstatus.com/guild_wars_2) to check on the server status and all the US servers have been flipping between off and online and having really high pings.

And to second what Kurr said, I saw the same comments made on their twitter and the time coincided with this bout of crashing so I wouldn’t be shocked it that’s actually what it is.

Same problem. Could not get in for half hour and even reset my password. I gave it one more try and actually got logged in. Played for 10 minutes and was lagged to death. After that ‘lost connection to server’.

Tried again over and over to get back in but no luck.

Missed SB, now I’m gonna miss Maw…

Greyhound.2058:

Missed SB, now I’m gonna miss Maw…

You make it sound as if that is your main concern, or that anyone else DIDN’T miss them. You didn’t miss these events so much as that no one can actually play for real right now.

Well, everyone’s missing everything, I suppose.

What I am wondering most of all is that we have not gotten an official announcement, which would be the decent thing for them to do and then try and fix it.

https://twitter.com/GuildWars2

They post every few minutes.

https://twitter.com/guildwars2

“We’re experiencing some technical problems right now and are looking into it. Sorry for the disconnect and login problems!”

“We’re continuing to investigate the cause of the current connection issues, please bear with us while the teams are working on it”

I hate Twitter, but it seems to be the only place to find out from them what is going on.
Forums should be separate from the game servers so if the game is having issues then the forums can still be accessed and notices posted on the main forum page.

Kurr.4179:

Greyhound.2058:

Missed SB, now I’m gonna miss Maw…

You make it sound as if that is your main concern, or that anyone else DIDN’T miss them. You didn’t miss these events so much as that no one can actually play for real right now.

I was joking around Just killing time..

We can play I Spy if you prefer…

This is what is going on: http://rt.com/news/biggest-ddos-us-cloudflare-557/

These guys seem to be likely culprits: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/01/multiple-gaming-platforms-hit-with-apparent-ddos-attacks/

Servers are all online and seem stable. No word on their twitter yet if the attacks have passed, but word elsewhere online seems to be that it has ended. Going to attempt to log in.

edit
Login successful. Forums running normal and up to speed. Seems clear to hop on again.

StinVec.3621:

https://twitter.com/guildwars2

“We’re experiencing some technical problems right now and are looking into it. Sorry for the disconnect and login problems!”

“We’re continuing to investigate the cause of the current connection issues, please bear with us while the teams are working on it”

I hate Twitter, but it seems to be the only place to find out from them what is going on.
Forums should be separate from the game servers so if the game is having issues then the forums can still be accessed and notices posted on the main forum page.

gw1 was/is have problems too so probably wouldn’t matter

Unplayable. Scarlet owes me the rewards from AC1 ! cant even log in. Maybe try another day

Was able to play for about fifteen minutes but then lag hit hard again. Will try tomorrow. Good luck, anet.

rubyhatchet.9483:

Was able to play for about fifteen minutes but then lag hit hard again. Will try tomorrow. Good luck, anet.

Yeah me too.

Still rubber banding all over the place. Unfortunately in WvW some servers are pressing attacks and taking out fully upgraded towers and keeps due to the inability to defend.

Not the slightest idea of who/what Scarlet is,
or why I would be directed here of all topics…

But, I also have been trying to log in for an hour now with no luck.
Please keep us updated.

They keep their twitter page updated on these issues every few minutes

edit:

https://twitter.com/guildwars2

I have been disconnected 7 times in the past 30 mins, but it seems like I’m the only one going through this with the group I’m running with on Maguuma. I give up. Hope this is fixed tomorrow.

Zoltan.3015:

They keep their twitter page updated on these issues every few minutes

edit:

https://twitter.com/guildwars2

Really silly that we have to rely on external sources for this stuff. How hard would it be to put the updates in this thread?

StinVec.3621:

Servers are all online and seem stable. No word on their twitter yet if the attacks have passed, but word elsewhere online seems to be that it has ended. Going to attempt to log in.

edit
Login successful. Forums running normal and up to speed. Seems clear to hop on again.

No, still problems

Barefootnate.3506:

Not the slightest idea of who/what Scarlet is,
or why I would be directed here of all topics…

But, I also have been trying to log in for an hour now with no luck.
Please keep us updated.

Is this your first attempt at logging in in the last 3 months? Scarlet’s been a big deal in the game for awhile. Even if you don’t take part in personal story, you ignore your in-game mail, and only play pvp…well, including the pvp part I guess it’s possible you’d never hear of her, but kitten the game would get old fast if that’s the only part of it you ever played.

Blackgate just got taken out. Again.

From the reddit thread :

“A major ISP called Level3 suffered a large DDoS around 2/12/14 1:30:01 AM GMT or 8:30PM EST. The outage was mitigated by Level3 around 2/12/14 4:01:32 AM GMT or 11:01PM EST. This is most likely your issue as Level3 is one of the ISPs used by ANet for server connectivity. The DDoS was caused by an NTP amplification attack and NTP should now be shut off on the core routers that had the problem.

Looks like the problems are back again. The last report I have from Level3 was stated as: “2/12/14 4:01:32 AM GMT The IP NOC has advised that the issue is believed to have been mitigated. Operations Engineers are currently working to confirm that no further impact is being experienced at this time.”"

Also some comments saying they just brought down RiotGames as well (not sure if true, don’t particularly care myself either but still very lame).

I have not been able to get on now for 2 hours. Any update from a net would be nice.

I am currently online no DCs for about 10 mins now.

I’ve got news for you guys, this is bigger than just arenanet…
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/largest-ever-ddos-cyber-attack-hits-us-european-victims-1435973

Yes, about 18 posts prior sneaky posted a couple links about it

Kurr.4179:

From the reddit thread :

“A major ISP called Level3 suffered a large DDoS around 2/12/14 1:30:01 AM GMT or 8:30PM EST. The outage was mitigated by Level3 around 2/12/14 4:01:32 AM GMT or 11:01PM EST. This is most likely your issue as Level3 is one of the ISPs used by ANet for server connectivity. The DDoS was caused by an NTP amplification attack and NTP should now be shut off on the core routers that had the problem.

Looks like the problems are back again. The last report I have from Level3 was stated as: “2/12/14 4:01:32 AM GMT The IP NOC has advised that the issue is believed to have been mitigated. Operations Engineers are currently working to confirm that no further impact is being experienced at this time.”"

Also some comments saying they just brought down RiotGames as well (not sure if true, don’t particularly care myself either but still very lame).

Level3 is a ‘Backbone’ ISP. Geez. That would help explain my network trace (done via GW2’s diagnostic mode) having the break occur within alter.net’s domain.

The attack vector is also very frightening. NTP (used for time sync over the Internet) is a ‘broadcast’ type protocol by nature: basically, fire and forget. There are a LOT of core systems that depend on that being precise.

(Sorry, I’ll take the UNIX/Linux Admin hat off now. But stuff like this really riles me up. Thanks for the heads-up though.)

Neural.1824:

Zoltan.3015:

They keep their twitter page updated on these issues every few minutes

edit:

https://twitter.com/guildwars2

Really silly that we have to rely on external sources for this stuff. How hard would it be to put the updates in this thread?

The issue / why they cant update this thread, is in they have a huge flaw in their design…
They put all their eggs in 1 basket…

I cannot explain why, but the logon servers for the game, are the same as the logon servers for the forums…

I expect the forum web servers reside behind the same network gear as the game servers….

Why they would not have a small web farm somewhere, with logon servers that replicated the database every so often is beyond me. It is not like the forums are tied to the game at all, not that I can perform any type of single sign on or such….

My best guess…. laaazzzzyyyynnnneeeesssss…..

Just throwing it out there…

By the way, I refuse to “check twitter” or “check facebook” or “oh use Google to search the forums”

I would rather (finally) log onto here and speak my peice, sure as heck their development / public relations / custer service department doesn’t care to share anything with us…