Guild Wars 2

it works for me now after i received an update!

thanks for the support.

When i read such topics i always wonder how humanity was able to play games like Ultima Online or EVE… those were/are harsh…

the pinnacle of the “Immediate gratification” generation…

It could be so many things. i think the problem lies within arenanet though. Because for all of us it stopped working after an update they did. The update fixed this exact error for many other players in other regions of europe but unfortunatly it broke for us…

i once played a game called darkfall online (RIP). from one day to the other it stopped working saying authentication error… i tried for a whole week, even installed windows from scratch. still not working. i was the only person of the whole community who had this problem… i nearly went insane. after a week i found out what it was… my freaking soundcard driver… no joke. after i took out my soundcard it worked again… an update of the darkfall launcher just was not compatible with the soundcarddriver. apparantly they used the same windows internal port… yeah that’s when i learned windows has internal ports…

such problems can be caused by such strange things and i bet it’s something like that… else it makes no sense… a combination of location / hardware / software we all share.

i tried it too without success. as said the 2 servers even get assigned automaticly by swisscom.

azedrul.6840:

I’ve tried with the port test.
Now I have the error message 7:11:3:189:101

interesting. my error message is still the same with the port test: 5:11:3:157:101

@raark
yeah my router uses the same dns… this problem really buffles me as i work as a network/system administrator… totaly no clue why it works for some. i live in central switzerland btw

raark i envy you then. thanks for the feedback provided even though you can play what provider are you using btw?

well. we just have to wait and see then.

i must say i am surprised how civil this thread has been up to this point, then again, it’s not the german section :P

edit: thanks for answering matt it’s the same issue though.

raark.7390:

Works for me in Geneva… but I do not know how long it will last, but I’m in game

Restart your router and do a ipconfig /flushdns on the command line.

You are probably logged into an overflow server. Don’t go to your homeserver if the message pops and don’t change regions/enter instances.

My brother played the whole evening yesterday because he was in a crowded place he chose to never leave the overflow server…

i am not that lucky

edit: i noticed the launcher has also more problems to accept the login. i had 3 timeouts in a row just now…

driveby.4625:

also Swiss but I’m using Green as provider, so it’s not a Swisscom thing…
creating a new character worked, my main is still stuck though in Charr 60-70 Zone…

like i said, i don’t believe it to be a swisscom thing. anet probably changed something because some people experienced the exact same thing yesterday.

luschtig

yeah, swiss guy here too. was a fun read though.

a hey, another swiss guy writing in here, how exotic… what? now even two? now three?

then i realized that kitten probably hit the fan and i won’t be playing GW for a long time it seesms

btw at luranni:

it is probably not a swisscom problem because they had people encountering this exact error yesterday… they were able to fix it for them it seems but now they broke it for us. but something is fishy with the routing none the less… login server times out every now and then for me too.

edit2: haha, now i understand the kitten… you guys do it right