Guild Wars 2

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Hermann.1537:

It worries me that ArenaNet supposedly is very close to resolving this, but it has been almost 20 days since the last time they updated us. I really hope they give us some more information soon which is not just repeating that they are close! Why can they not tell us if something has gone wrong, or some unexpected obstacles have appeared? It seems almost certain that something along those lines has happened, since this remains unfixed.

I hope I am not too whiny, and I know they probably have a lot on their hands right now, but this is a very important issue for many people. Postponing a fix until Heart of Thorns just seems unfair.

The point person working on the fix probably has nothing directly to do with HoT; their job is probably writing and running scripts that run on the database, since that is likely a big part of the solution. Writing scripts is usually easy. Testing them, so they don’t do anything unexpected, is usually hard; I’ve seen a lot of programmers get it wrong, even though the scripts were otherwise solid, efficient, and well targeted tools. Usually, the problem was there was an unexpected impact of changing a certain field from X to Y.

So when we got our last word on the topic nearly two weeks ago, they probably had a script that did everything it was supposed to do and were in the process of testing it. The reason it didn’t show up in the most recent scheduled update is that they probably uncovered something during testing. Even if that “something” was completely minor, given that we’ve waited ~4 months already, I’m sure they are erring on the side of caution: much better that we wait longer still than they make the change with any issues whatsoever.

Further, throwing more people on this particular issue isn’t likely to speed things up. It just takes time to identify & resolve issues that are caused by unexpected side-effects of scripts running on the entire player database.

tl;dr I am sure they are moving as fast as is possible (or nearly so) and that HoT isn’t affecting the fix.

I do, however, wish they would give us an update every week, even if it’s nothing more than, “soz, we don’t have an ETA yet.”

I understand that getting the scripts right when trying to fix this is a very difficult task, and as you say, some unexpected programming obstacle has probably occured. However, why do we have to speculate about that? Why can they not be more transparent, and confirm what we are guessing?

I agree that throwing more people at this issue probably would not help the progress towards a fix, and that is not what I am arguing. I simply wish that they could be more open about the whole thing, and show us that this is important to them by updating us regularly whenever something happens which postpones the solution.

It worries me that ArenaNet supposedly is very close to resolving this, but it has been almost 20 days since the last time they updated us. I really hope they give us some more information soon which is not just repeating that they are close! Why can they not tell us if something has gone wrong, or some unexpected obstacles have appeared? It seems almost certain that something along those lines has happened, since this remains unfixed.

I hope I am not too whiny, and I know they probably have a lot on their hands right now, but this is a very important issue for many people. Postponing a fix until Heart of Thorns just seems unfair.

I really wish they update us on their progress soon! They have been telling us that they are close for so long now, and now that the last update has passed, they really should tell us whether to expect this fix in time for the next patch or even for HoT.

Does anybody know when the next patch will be released? Hopefully this will be fixed by then!

Hall of Monuments is still disabled after the update. Although they said it wouldn’t be fixed by now, it kind of irks me that it’s still broken after such a long time! I really hope they fix this by the next patch.

I just wish they would be more transparent about the issue, and take a few minutes to actually explain their progress and give us updates so that we don’t have to go around making assumptions and relying on non-concrete “we’re close”.

I really hope they fix this in time for Heart of Thorns! By the way, is it worth gathering Hall of Monument points now? I want to get two points so that I can get shoulders and gloves for the Heritage armor set, but I don’t want to get involved in the 39-points-and-title mess.

I tried to do this event too for the first time today, and it still doesn’t work. I’m on Desolation server (EU), and tactician Footi doesn’t show up. There’s an endless stream of pirates and wraiths, and the cannon progress bar doesn’t ever fill up. Please solve this problem!

Hello fellow Guild Warriors!

After watching this lore series on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARZWX51hYYk) I saw how much of Tyria wasn’t released yet. This made me thinking about expansion packs.

First of all I thought of dragons. Now that we have defeated Zhaitan, it’s quite obvious that the next expansion pack will involve dragons. I thought of Jormag, the ice dragon, which would reveal the Far Shiverpeaks north of the norn’s land. Then I thought about Kralkatorrik, the crystal dragon, which would reveal the Crystal Desert area. Then Primordus, the oldest of the dragons, which may reveal huge underground caves that the Asura used to live in. Then we have the myserious Sea dragon, that would take use of Guild Wars 2’s great underwater combat system to let us explore the huge oceans of Tyria.

After all of the five known Elder dragons have been released, then maybe Arenanet will reveal the huge Maguuma Jungle and Woodland Cascades to the north-west of the map.

I’ve also thought about the two other continents in the world of Tyria, Elona and Cantha, which has a huge potential of becoming expansion packs.

Then we got the mysterious planet that the humans came from a thousand years ago, with all new continents.

Also, I’ve heard about a sixth Elder dragon – and that the Sylvari are its minions, as they are the only playable race that cannot be corrupted by the other dragons. This could make for a quite interesting expansion pack.

All in all; the world of Guild Wars 2 has a fantastic and massive lore, where there is so much content that Arenanet can use to make expansion packs. There is enough content to keep this game running for YEARS!

If you have your own ideas for Guild Wars 2 expansion packs, feel free to post!

I recently made a new Sylvari alt, and I guess I got inspired by Trahearne from my personal story on my charr, so I called him Fahearn. Not very original, but at least I now didn’t have to try a billion times to find a name that wasn’t taken!