Guild Wars 2?

LionelThompson · 2012-08-25T05:49:50.000Z

If I’m going to neglect my family and yardwork, I was really hoping for a better payoff.

Wolff · 2012-08-25T05:55:07.000Z

Same now the wife kid and dog are all up less time for game. I hoped launch kinks would be worked out by now.

Did unlock nightmare in omd2 though.

DKDArtagnan · 2012-08-25T06:01:53.000Z

I wonder what all those stress tests were for :)

Still, I guess it means the game is really popular - and that’s always a good sign.

LionelThompson · 2012-08-25T06:04:54.000Z

That’s okay, The Secret World still loves me and doesn’t shut me out of it’s cold heart.

TheWombat · 2012-08-25T06:22:17.000Z

C’mon, folks, people are surprised that a launch results in login jams? Heh. :)

merryprankster · 2012-08-25T06:25:42.000Z

Totally broken at launch: one of the joys of being a modern gamer.

Nephrinn · 2012-08-25T06:26:37.000Z

tomchick · 2012-08-25T06:26:43.000Z

Well, it’s not just a login jam. I can’t get into my account management page on the web site, there’s no meaningful information on the support page, and the launcher won’t even start. From where I’m sitting, it looks like the entire thing has just vanished after working almost flawlessly for seven hours.

-Tom

merryprankster · 2012-08-25T06:31:31.000Z

Maybe David Copperfield had something to do with it, does he have an alibi?

Wolff · 2012-08-25T06:32:36.000Z

Yeah it seems I always lose mmo roulette. Purposely went to bed early when what I should of done is stay up and sleep now!

Andre_Costa · 2012-08-25T06:35:38.000Z

The account page just started working for me.

Kyrios · 2012-08-25T06:40:28.000Z

Wolff:

Yeah it seems I always lose mmo roulette. Purposely went to bed early when what I should of done is stay up and sleep now!

Same, who would have thought that the initial crunch wouldn’t be the problem, but 7am East Coast / 4am West Coast would be. Can’t win!

Ender · 2012-08-25T06:48:29.000Z

They’re updating us on status via twitter: https://twitter.com/GuildWars2

Gendal · 2012-08-25T06:58:41.000Z

Bummer, I logged in last night 30 or so minutes after they opened and played for a couple of hours with zero issues. I loved how fast it gets you into the game. Now it’s all connection errors and retrying.

I wasn’t very impressed with the game all that much in the tutorial area (nord thief) though at least i could dodge in combat. Skill seemed to be important, which at this point is pretty necessary for me to even have a small continuing interest.

TheWombat · 2012-08-25T07:08:35.000Z

Tom Chick:

Well, it’s not just a login jam. I can’t get into my account management page on the web site, there’s no meaningful information on the support page, and the launcher won’t even start. From where I’m sitting, it looks like the entire thing has just vanished after working almost flawlessly for seven hours.
-Tom

Ouch. I was considering buying the digital pre-order thing, but there doesn’t seem to be much purpose to that if I can’t get in (probably won’t even be able to download the damn thing). Maybe I’ll just wait.

Sean_Tudor · 2012-08-25T07:15:14.000Z

There is an unconfirmed rumor floating around that the GW2 servers were actually DDOS’d.

Daagar · 2012-08-25T07:20:33.000Z

Pretty sad if true… fanboys worried about “their” game, I would assume. Though really - all of us trying to login to play would look quite a bit like a DDoS attack just by itself :)

Teiman · 2012-08-25T07:21:00.000Z

Sean Tudor:

There is an unconfirmed rumor floating around that the GW2 servers were actually DDOS’d.

Who and why? also DDOSing some servers designed to support a large load is weird. It probably its more a normal operation problem. MMORPG always get hit hard at release.

Cobra · 2012-08-25T07:22:38.000Z

Anet:

At present our server team are working on the underlying problems that are causing login issues, thank you for your continued patience ^AT

They’ve released a patch but everytime I start the client I get “Connection error, retrying.”

KevinC · 2012-08-25T07:26:41.000Z

Severs are coming up, my friend just got in (no luck for me yet).