Guild Wars 2

OK, so the outcome of the patch is that you are meant to split up with the view that you will get rewarded wherever you are, as long as you participate. Nice idea and quite balanced. The certainty of a holo fight reward is removed but it’s at least replaced with a knight reward for downing one knight.

But instead we have a situation that means if you do split and then you end up on a knight that fails, you don’t get anything…….. which means you are pushed to try and camp the one fight that will win, i.e. RED. Making it even worse as a zerg fest. Oh dear, what a mess.

And still it goes on (over two weeks now). I have tested during the day and get no problems. Then at 17:00 I start to get terrible lag , shortly afterwards if I try to change maps I hang on the loading page and eventually the client times out (rubber-banding according to Anet support). Then at 23:00 everything starts working smoothly again. I completely accept that it’s an issue on BT’s side and most likely throttling of GW2 traffic. In fact my contract does specifically state that P2P traffic will be throttled at peak hours. So the simple fact seems to be that BT has decided to reclassify GW2 as a P2P service. I have raised this (and so have countless others by the look at both the BT and Anet forums) but its not making any difference.

What I don’t get is why Anet is not commenting on this or even saying that they are also in discussion with BT to get GW2 reclassified again. It’s surely in Anet’s interest to try and help because if we go on much longer we all may as well give up playing. Goodbye all those nice juicy gem purchases. I don’t want to stop as I have been playing since Beta and I still really enjoy the game but whats the point if I cannot play at the time when I’m free.

I am having the exact same issues since the last patch and I also have BT as my ISP. The view from support is that its an issue of serious packet loss at some of the internal network nodes in BT, leading to the server request timing out. I downloaded a new client which seemed to help for a bit, but now the same issues have resurfaced.

The bit I don’t understand is why none of my other online games have the same issue. Either they are more forgiving with packet loss or something about the new patch has made GW2 a lot more restrictive in its time outs.