Guild Wars 2

Mr International.3715:

I’m pretty sure that without servers, nobody could play the game at all. Because its an MMO. Online. Nah really though I think thats a good idea, but I don’t know enough about servers and what not to say whether that would be realistic/doable. It might put too much strain on the server, with the amount of people that play this and the graphical intensity of the game.

I think the OP’s point was that rather than having permanent ‘server communities’ with only infrequent movement between them, s/he would prefer the GW1 system of having multiple ‘districts’ (servers effectively) listed for each town that has too many people for one server. Players could then move between these at will, and it would also greatly increase players’ choice of guilds.

Zargnath has a point though: this is more an ‘architectural’ thing and isn’t changeable.

nachtnebel.9168:

If you want gems you should by them for real money since it’s the only income GW2 generates for Arena Net.

Except the tens of millions of dollars they’ve made (and are still making) from people buying copies of the game of course.

I’ve just realised (from the email address) that I’ve been posting on here with my beta account rather than the full game account which has my characters on it. Is it possible to merge two forum accounts?

DebugAMP.3290:

Guild Wars 1: Events that repeat every 4 hours…. good
Guild Wars 2: One shot events…. bad

I think it’s been pretty apparent from the Beta Weekend close events, to Halloween, and especially now, that the servers cant handle one shot events. At least with the guild wars 1 model the load was distributed as people picked the times that best worked with their schedules.

The worst part of this is the impact to the game as a whole as a result of this event that people will never be able to experience again. I honestly can’t think of any good reason to do one shot events of this magnitude.

The GW1 servers couldn’t handle the every-four-hours events either. Up until the player population went off a cliff (in about 2010 or so), GW1 would have multi-second lag at the big ones like Wintersday (used to have to login and zone to the event location 30 minutes before the start because of this). The only reason Arenanet got away with it was because most GW1 events were non-combat: it didn’t matter if the game took 10 seconds to respond to input because you were basically watching a nicely art-directed cutscene of the Mad King/Dwayna/Grenth etc.

TheJokester.4672:

personally i think EVERY cosmetic should b able to b bought via black lion ex. cultural armor and rare weapons that are just there for its skin none of the cultural armor is gotten for its stats it sucks its purely a cosmetic item that u want us to spend at least $1,300 in gems to get now and when i was trying to get it $3,200 to get it

Buying game items with real cash (i.e. pay-to-win) is supposed to be a crappy deal, to discourage people from doing it. That way the people who want to play the game to get rewards have an easier time than people who want to bribe the referee.

The event can be summed up in one word: fail. You made millions of dollars from people buying this game, and the showpiece event was unplayable because you didn’t spend enough of those dollars on sufficient server capacity to enable all of your paying customers to play the game they paid for. PLEASE learn how to run an MMO before the Wintersday event.

CC Dalmarus.8397:

Thanks for the feedback and patience everyone. The team is investigating these issues as we speak. Please continue to let us know if the event has not kicked off on your server (overflow servers too). Also, let us know if you are in an overflow server and the event did kick off. Thanks!

The event kicked off on my overflow server, but was just as unplayable as yesterday’s event. 10 second + delays between selecting a skill and it actually being used.

You’re not missing anything. It’s as pathetic as yesterday – Arenanet are simply incapable of providing adequate server capacity for all their paying customers to play the game they paid for.

Have to sell those cash shop event chests somehow folks!

This. The reason the event didn’t work is the same reason Guild Wars 1 big events always lagged (it was just less of a problem because GW1 events didn’t involve combat). Anet don’t spend enough of the millions of dollars we paid them on adequate server capacity. Re-running the event won’t solve that.

EDIT: That was suppose to quote rtommaso’s post immediately above mine