Guild Wars 2

I went through the tech support route. I was also getting serious lag at peak times so ran PingPlotter Standard which showed some major packet loss enroute to the NcSoft European servers. When I contacted my ISP, BSkyB, with whom I had an unlimited, supposedly unmanaged account, I was told that I was on Normal Profile and not Gamer Profile which would sort it out. Having never been told that the options were available I was pretty miffed and agreed to them putting me on the Gamer Profile so hopefully in 72 hours my problem will be solved.

I’ve been getting it most of this weekend. This morning wasn’t too bad but for the last 3 hours haven’t been able to succesfully enter a region (The Grove, Frostgorge Sound).
They don’t seem to be using overflow server anymore.

No. The pre purchase was about what I spent for the first two parts of GW1 – I played through all four parts. The story lines were interesting, cut scene dialogue at least well acted and no subscription. If you wanted pvp at odd hours you could move around servers all over the world – Europe, USA and Rest of World to find populated servers. This game GW2 is boring and buggy and I’ve only bothered to level to 80 to see whether it would get any better – even the cut scene dialogue is appallingly acted – who hired the guy who voices Trehearne or is his wooden reading actually method acting so he’s reading it with the emotion of a block of wood. The set skill bar is pathetic. GW1 only had 8 skills available at a time but you could create all sorts of builds with all the skills you could get. So no, compared with what I spent on GW1, GW2 was not worth it.