Guild Wars 2

From twitter:
https://twitter.com/guildwars2/status/669330933208715264
We don’t have an ETA for the servers going back online. Rest assured we’ve got the best crew working on this! Thanks for your patience ^SL

This is a known/being-worked-on issue, according to Anet’s twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/guildwars2/status/669317200851951616
We’re aware of #GW2 login issues and are investigating the possible causes ^SL

For what it’s worth, and I don’t want to sound like a verizon supporter, but I think it’s not them so much has their upstream.

with the fix, the steps immediately after leaving verizon’s network are:

 5  0.so-2-0-2.xl4.iad8.alter.net (152.63.30.6)  7.339 ms
    0.so-2-0-2.xl3.iad8.alter.net (152.63.30.17)  39.306 ms
    0.xe-3-0-3.xl4.iad8.alter.net (152.63.3.53)  7.053 ms
 6  tengige0-7-0-0.gw1.iad8.alter.net (152.63.36.49)  17.079 ms
    tengige0-6-2-0.gw1.iad8.alter.net (152.63.35.141)  9.299 ms
    tengige0-5-2-0.gw1.iad8.alter.net (152.63.39.2)  13.240 ms
 7  teliasonera-gw.customer.alter.net (152.179.50.234)  67.000 ms  18.341 ms  14.704 ms
 8  ash-bb4-link.telia.net (213.155.133.228)  20.583 ms
    ash-bb3-link.telia.net (80.91.252.88)  24.782 ms
    ash-bb4-link.telia.net (80.91.252.94)  21.576 ms
 9  nyk-bb2-link.telia.net (213.155.134.128)  41.610 ms
    nyk-bb2-link.telia.net (213.155.130.74)  25.899 ms
    nyk-bb1-link.telia.net (213.155.134.148)  41.648 ms
10  chi-bb1-link.telia.net (80.91.247.17)  36.734 ms
    chi-bb1-link.telia.net (213.155.131.243)  34.990 ms
    chi-bb1-link.telia.net (62.115.137.53)  40.874 ms
11  cdnetwork-ic-302303-chi-eqx-i1.c.telia.net (62.115.33.150)  37.051 ms  44.812 ms  32.579 ms
12  assetcdn.101.arenanetworks.com (174.35.56.164)  52.959 ms  41.817 ms  37.552 ms

Without the fix, however, the hops are:

5  0.xe-5-3-0.br1.iad8.alter.net (152.63.37.49)  13.294 ms
    0.xe-2-2-1.br1.iad8.alter.net (152.63.37.137)  9.333 ms *
 6  * * *
 7  vl-3501-ve-115.ebr1.washington12.level3.net (4.69.158.18)  14.777 ms
    vl-3503-ve-117.ebr1.washington12.level3.net (4.69.158.26)  17.502 ms
    vl-3504-ve-118.ebr1.washington12.level3.net (4.69.158.30)  21.538 ms
 8  ae-8-8.ebr1.washington1.level3.net (4.69.143.217)  19.201 ms  15.164 ms  15.011 ms
 9  ae-4-4.ebr2.newark1.level3.net (4.69.132.102)  23.066 ms  17.189 ms  64.553 ms
10  ae-2-52.edge2.newark1.level3.net (4.69.156.41)  17.786 ms  17.489 ms  20.816 ms
11  cdnetworks.edge2.newark1.level3.net (4.30.132.186)  31.757 ms  25.399 ms  24.974 ms
12  174.35.21.98 (174.35.21.98)  22.479 ms  74.616 ms  19.705 ms
13  174.35.10.2 (174.35.10.2)  20.308 ms  19.446 ms  22.454 ms

That would indicate to me a problem either inside alter.net (given hop 6) or possibly upstream even from there, in level3, since the ‘working’ path doesn’t traverse that (and goes to telia, instead)

I’ve had this problem before, in other winebottled games. It amounts to the game window not actually having foreground focus. Cmd-tab works, because when you bring the game back, it now assertedly has focus.

Why it, after the patch, no longer has focus after starting I can’t say, unfortunately. I’d be quite willing to blame the cider wrapper, especially since it’s doing the tgUpdate thing