Guild Wars 2

As someone who bought and plays this game entirely for roleplay, I don’t want to be in a position where I feel my notable expenditure to play this has been wasted. What sort of message are you sending out when you have created a situation inhospitable to a large number of players? If you want to make the game feel more alive, more active, then cull dead servers to consolidate server usage, don’t try to mash them together in this… ham-fisted farce of a system. Sure, this system might be more tolerable on the NA servers, but for us on Piken Square, in the EU servers, it’s a more evident problem because there are language barriers. I’ve heard accounts of my friends being caught between the French and the Germans and being unable to pull the pieces of their guild back together.

As much as a person’s pride and determination seek to drive them forward, sometimes it’s only right to reassess your choices and turn back. This has been a very poor system from the outset, a clumsy way to avoid the inevitable – that servers need to be consolidated. It’s easier to move a community from one world to another than to have to play a puzzle game across a number of shards to have even a single roleplay. And that’s just roleplay events, as this change is tantamount to lethal to spontaneous roleplay.

So really I’d like to see a U-turn. There’s precedent for it in MMO developers to reverse a planned change, and there’s no shame in it. It’s just about doing what’s right to keep the integrity of your communities and thus maintain the quality of the game.

And now lost connection to server again.

Well, now I’m suffering from extreme lag which makes the game unplayable.

I’ve somehow managed to get in, though not without lag. I’ll leave this and see if I have the same issue tomorrow.

I’ve been trying to get into the game all afternoon now, and a problem that’s happened sporadically in the last few days has come to head. The game either refuses to log in, or when it does, refuses to get into the actual game. The few occasions I do get in game, it lasts all of 30 seconds before I’m kicked out again.

I’ve tried restarting my PC, along with a number of solutions that are within my capacity to perform. I’ve exhausted all options bar uninstalling and reinstalling the game, and the extremely long time it takes to do that makes it likely that even if it did work, it would be a Pyrrhic victory at best.

I know that my ISP (Studentcom) isn’t at fault here, my connection is fine and I can run other MMORPGs fine, which leads me to believe the fault is on the side of ArenaNet.

Can anyone help me here, or am I stuck in the proverbial Mists here?

Examples of the error codes I’ve got:
- 7:11:3:191:101
- 58:11:5:523
- 42:1000:9001:4170
- 42:0:9001:3927