Guild Wars 2

Kotaku is now reporting that Anet is planning to change in response to the outcry:

http://kotaku.com/guild-wars-2-players-angry-over-currency-exchange-chang-1649519173

Update: ArenaNet has responded with plans to update the Currency Exchange so players can use it as they wish. They offered the following statement:

“It’s clear that quite a lot of you would like to have greater flexibility in using the Currency Exchange. Our intention when we designed the new interface was to streamline large volume purchases, which make up the majority of transactions.

In light of your feedback, we will update the Currency Exchange so that you can decide how you want to use it. We will keep the new streamlined system and also offer a new “Custom” button on the panel that you can use to exchange any increment of gems or gold.

We anticipate rolling this out soon. Stay tuned!"

…and of course ten minutes after I posted that I got DC’d again.

I wound up resolving the issue, I think. Time will tell but I was able to put in multiple uninterrupted hours yesterday, unlike before.

I’m on Comcast, and they recently sent me a new wireless gateway; a modem/router combination. It’s an Arris TG862G/CT, and I hate it.

It was blocking off all the ports that GW2 needed. Sadly, port forwarding wasn’t going to be an option simply because both my son and I play GW2, and you can only forward ports to one IP address. In theory, UPnP should have done the trick (as it did on my old Linksys) but it didn’t appear to be, and the Arris just doesn’t offer you the level of control that you’d need to really do much to fix the problem.

I spent a good amount of time on the phone with a Comcast tech discussing options, but ultimately I had to find a workaround on my own.

What I did was plug in my old Linksys wireless router – I connected it directly to the modem via ethernet.

I then went into the settings for the Arris and added a DHCP reservation for the IP address that the Linksys had picked up (so that the IP of the Linksys won’t change).

Following that, I added the IP address for the Linksys to the DMZ of the Arris, so that all the ports would be open to the Linksys.

Since the Linksys is already handling ports via UPnP (and doing it correctly), I didn’t have to worry about any further configuration. The gaming PC’s are on the wireless network broadcast by the Linksys, and other wireless devices in the house are connecting to the Arris.

It’s perhaps not the most elegant workaround, but my only other option was to replace the Arris with something functional, and I just don’t have the spare cash for that at the moment.

I had this issue earlier after setting up a new modem/router combo from my ISP (Comcast).

Found a facebook post saying to add /clientport 80 to the end of the GW2 shortcut. That appears to have fixed it for me.

That is awesome – this was one of the best things about Asheron’s Call.

My computer: Core i5-2500k @ 3.3GHz, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD 6870, Win7 Ultimate x64.

GW2 generally runs in the 20fps range, drops to single digits when there’s action on the screen.

My son’s computer: Core 2 6400 @ 2.13Ghz, 3GB RAM, GeForce 9800 GT, Win7 Ultimate x86.

GW2 runs 40fps+ in just about all situations.

Now figure that one out.