Guild Wars 2

Same Colin – Same server – Same time. Yet Anet have nothing to say it seems.

It’s their servers. They’re great at this. Been like this for the past 3 days for me. Play all day and works brilliantly – 5.30 on the dot the lag begins. Still carry on trying to play and this time (6.45) the servers get all “rammed” up and the lag makes it unplayable.

LOADS of people are having this problem but nobody is writing on the forums, they all think it is their connection or something else that is the problem – fact is their servers suck and they have yet to acknowledge this. The game is playable in the UK from 11pm (I have found) until 5.30pm the following afternoon. Between 5.30 and 10.30 you might as well not bother. 90% of my guild suffer with the problem, but some don’t – it’s extremely random and thoroughly frustrating.

Day 3 begins at 9am. Works fine – perfectly. I notice one lag spike and scream without looking at the clock “OOOH, IT’S GOT OT BE 5.30!” And shocklingly, shockingly, as if I had no idea – the time was exactly 5.30…

Hey Arenanet please note very unsatisfied customers here, sort it out. This is bullkitten.

Getting the same error with monumental lag – we’re talking at least 30 second spikes, along with many of my friends.

One thing myself and my friend noticed whilst talking through Skype that is during these lag spikes we can talk in Guild chat and it’s instant, but talk in public then there’s nothing. This only suggests to me that their servers are not capable of handling this much traffic. This happened to me yesterday, and it was around 5.30pm UK time, everything prior to this was fine, and exactly the same today….

So myself and my my friend have just run a test whilst chatting on skype…

We can chat in guild chat when we are lagged out for 30 second spikes. BUT, can’t chat in any public channels. Proving the error with their public servers not being able to handle it!

Useless, they need to improve this and fast!

I’ve got mates in UK all over the place on many different ISP’s, some with 60mb internet, and we’re all having the same problems. I’m getting it significantly worse than some though. Been reading this problem for a few days now it seems. Mine started lastnight, levelled out today, and then went to kitten.

Playing on Desolation, being a UK server, 6pm is obviously the start of potential peek time. It’s pretty obvious what the problem is to me, but will they sort it? Will they hell.

Second day in a row, yesterday was playing from 10am (UK time) and 10pm, from 10am till 6pm it was fine, then 6pm arrives and the lag begins. This exact same issue has happened today, been fine until 6pm and almost right on key, myself and 6 other guild members all suffering huge 5-10 second lag spikes, rendering the game unplayable.

This is getting frustrating now. The obvious problem would be their servers being too weak to handle the loads, being on a high pop server ofc, but they surely should be able to handle this by now… It’s been a while since release.

I also see others are having the same problems, does anyone know of anything that’s going to be done?

EDIT: Have since found out that during these monumental lag spikes, you can talk fine with your guild mates in guild chat but nothing in public chat. Suggesting heavily that their servers are lagged!!

EDIT2: Day 3 – Been playing since 8.30am, working fine all day. 5.30 on the dot, the first small 1-2 second lag spikes begin. 6.50pm the game is unplayable with 30+ second lag spikes and frequent disconnects.

Seems to be mostly UK players suffering with this so… y’know… Arenanet… PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE THIS PROBLEM