the stress test yesterday was like 30min to an hr tops.

I am not in beta nor a stress tester

Originally posted by Mephster

It is all good but what is interesting how many times ArenaNet has to stress to current beta testers not to talk about stuff while you are under NDA. Who picked these people, seriously ?

You should have seen the amount of posts on facebook saying "I've been invited to GW2 beta!" on previous betas.

Originally posted by Myrdynn

the stress test yesterday was like 30min to an hr tops.

I am not in beta nor a stress tester

it was actually closer to 6 hrs. I have seen a few people verify this and thats an odd number to just come up with at random

Ok too much misinformation here. I'll clarify:

Stress Beta was 6 hours. (5h 30min to be exact. It ended a bit early)

Pre-purchasers did get in. So the whole theory of 'But Arena-net said only people under NDA' is false. So yes, Pre-purchasing did actually entitle people to the stress test. No they are not under NDA as pre-purchasers have not signed an NDA agreement. Therefore it was Arenanet who messed up. (Not that it was a bad thing). What does this mean?

It means, while Arenanet can get stuff removed from the internet they could never prosecute a person who hasn't signed the NDA. Also, they will not ban/take action against these people (thus far anyway) as they are customers.

There was content that was leaked to places like 4chan, reddit and someone even livestreamed on twitch.tv for a short while.

What i heard, from here and other forums, was that the test was around 6 hours long, the idea of doing it before the beta weekend is that during the beta weekend they will have more people on then ever before and they need to make sure it will be ok. Also, lets be honest with ourselves, Anet is taking a gamble with the pre-purchases. If we who pre-purchased (myself included) are unable to log into the beta weekend due to server trouble or whatever, there will be hell to pay. I have given them my money, they will give me my promised weekends. I am sure all of you feel the same. We have not been disappointed by Anet yet, but that doesn't mean we won't react accordingly if we are let down. Eitherway, I could care less about a 6 hour stress, it was not a beta and not something I signed up for. And thanks for Anet for making sure they are testing things right before letting me get in there. Cheers.

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Originally posted by RathanX26
What i heard, from here and other forums, was that the test was around 6 hours long, the idea of doing it before the beta weekend is that during the beta weekend they will have more people on then ever before and they need to make sure it will be ok. Also, lets be honest with ourselves, Anet is taking a gamble with the pre-purchases. If we who pre-purchased (myself included) are unable to log into the beta weekend due to server trouble or whatever, there will be hell to pay. I have given them my money, they will give me my promised weekends. I am sure all of you feel the same. We have not been disappointed by Anet yet, but that doesn't mean we won't react accordingly if we are let down. Eitherway, I could care less about a 6 hour stress, it was not a beta and not something I signed up for. And thanks for Anet for making sure they are testing things right before letting me get in there. Cheers.

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Judging by yesterday's performance, I don't think you should be worried :)

Originally posted by Icarumba

Judging by yesterday's performance, I don't think you should be worried :)

This ^

Wish I could elaborate.

Originally posted by Razephon

Ok too much misinformation here. I'll clarify:

Stress Beta was 6 hours. (5h 30min to be exact. It ended a bit early)

Pre-purchasers did get in. So the whole theory of 'But Arena-net said only people under NDA' is false. So yes, Pre-purchasing did actually entitle people to the stress test. No they are not under NDA as pre-purchasers have not signed an NDA agreement. Therefore it was Arenanet who messed up. (Not that it was a bad thing). What does this mean?

It means, while Arenanet can get stuff removed from the internet they could never prosecute a person who hasn't signed the NDA. Also, they will not ban/take action against these people (thus far anyway) as they are customers.

There was content that was leaked to places like 4chan, reddit and someone even livestreamed on twitch.tv for a short while.

Pre-purchasers did not get in..because i was not in,

2. if there some people who actualy got in and did pre-purchaser . the beta invite was from the pool of 1 million register,

Originally posted by sk8chalif

Originally posted by Razephon

Ok too much misinformation here. I'll clarify:

Stress Beta was 6 hours. (5h 30min to be exact. It ended a bit early)

Pre-purchasers did get in. So the whole theory of 'But Arena-net said only people under NDA' is false. So yes, Pre-purchasing did actually entitle people to the stress test. No they are not under NDA as pre-purchasers have not signed an NDA agreement. Therefore it was Arenanet who messed up. (Not that it was a bad thing). What does this mean?

It means, while Arenanet can get stuff removed from the internet they could never prosecute a person who hasn't signed the NDA. Also, they will not ban/take action against these people (thus far anyway) as they are customers.

There was content that was leaked to places like 4chan, reddit and someone even livestreamed on twitch.tv for a short while.

Pre-purchasers did not get in..because i was not in,

2. if there some people who actualy got in and did pre-purchaser . the beta invite was from the pool of 1 million register,

 

 

I'm guessing the second point you made may have some validity.

Originally posted by aesperus

Originally posted by Icarumba

Judging by yesterday's performance, I don't think you should be worried :)

This ^

Wish I could elaborate.

Don't, Otherwise i won't see you in game.

Originally posted by heartless

There was a 6 hour stress test yesterday. It ended. Most people who pre-purchased were able to participate, although they were not notified with an email like other testers were.

That ticks me off. So, if we had been sneaky and found a way to download the client before being notified, we could have participated? I guess I should have been sneaky and dug around for a way to DL the client before being given an actual DL link. Also has me thinking that the twitter comment that people who were in the invite only beta weekend will have to re-download the client for the BWE was likely BS as well.

Oh well, lesson learned.

most of the ppl who got in were never sent email. if you had client and had prepurchased you could log on and play. read reddits forums alot of ppl got in and posted SS of it. client is posted on reddit but wont do you any good now since stress test over and your going to have to DL new client for BWE. alot of ppl were scared to log on cause they werent accepted and didnt wanna get there account bann'ed. 

Originally posted by ariboersma

Originally posted by Myrdynn

the stress test yesterday was like 30min to an hr tops.

I am not in beta nor a stress tester

it was actually closer to 6 hrs. I have seen a few people verify this and thats an odd number to just come up with at random

lets just say i was in the room with another person who happens to be in the stress test, he sat at his computer from noon-6 yesterday and maybe played 45 mins tops

Originally posted by Lord.Bachus

"Guys: calm down. Obviously we cannot give public updates on teh stresstest because its under NDA, should be pretty straight forward"

What an ignorant comment.  The NDA applies to Beta Testers, not to staff.  That's like saying "guys, we obvisouly can't show any screen shots, or talk about the races and classes in the game, it's under NDA".  If your in charge of tweeting for GW2, you can talk about whatever you want to talk about... that's the point of Twitter.

GameInformer has 30 minutes of Guild Wars 2 gameplay, narrated by our very own Jonathan Sharp: http://ow.ly/agx6W ~RB2 #GuildWars2

Someone fire Jonathan Sharp!  He's violoating the NDA!

Originally posted by Myrdynn

Originally posted by ariboersma

Originally posted by Myrdynn

the stress test yesterday was like 30min to an hr tops.

I am not in beta nor a stress tester

it was actually closer to 6 hrs. I have seen a few people verify this and thats an odd number to just come up with at random

lets just say i was in the room with another person who happens to be in the stress test, he sat at his computer from noon-6 yesterday and maybe played 45 mins tops

yes, because it was a stress test.

This was the very reason that they didn't formally invite folks that had paid for access through pre purchase.

Stress testers should have the mindset that this will happen. Pre purchasers, despite it being called 'beta', will expect a pretty robust play experience. It might not be 'right', but that's just how it is.

If amy stress tester was in any way upset with not being able to play a lot during a STRESS TEST, and I am not saying that was the case with your 'friend', they really need to settle down and have a word with themselves.

With the number of people going to play the game, I'm glad the developers are already stressing their servers, rather than waiting for beta events from those of us who have pre-purchased the game.  Should make opening day that much smoother.

Originally posted by drel

With the number of people going to play the game, I'm glad the developers are already stressing their servers, rather than waiting for beta events from those of us who have pre-purchased the game.  Should make opening day that much smoother.

I agree, but they still shouldn't blow smoke up our asses.

Originally posted by fiontar

Originally posted by heartless

There was a 6 hour stress test yesterday. It ended. Most people who pre-purchased were able to participate, although they were not notified with an email like other testers were.

That ticks me off. So, if we had been sneaky and found a way to download the client before being notified, we could have participated? I guess I should have been sneaky and dug around for a way to DL the client before being given an actual DL link. Also has me thinking that the twitter comment that people who were in the invite only beta weekend will have to re-download the client for the BWE was likely BS as well.

Oh well, lesson learned.

Correct. I didn't re-download anything.

Regarding the stress test:

One of their CM's way of writing rubs me the wrong way, imo (just check twitter, not breaking NDA here.). It comes across as pretty rude and not just to someone who was rude...

Originally posted by donpopuki

Announicing there's a stress test days after they promised people beta access if they pre-purchased the game is a bad PR move. Especially if they don't allow beta testers into the stress test. Yes yes, "stress test isn't beta!" is what I keep hearing, well I've been part of many betas and there were stress during the betas so the terms aren't mutualy exculsive. In fact this particular non-beta stress test is the exception. 

They didn't announce there was a stress test.  There were some comments on twitter (mainly about not breaking the NDA) after people starting asking them questions about the stress test over twitter and via other forums.

A stress test can mean a lot of things though.  Blizzard are calling inviting 275,000 people to the Diablo III beta a stress test as well. Bioware did a stress test for SWTOR by getting everyone to submit a in game support ticket at set times through their beta weekends. Who knows what Arenanet was looking to test under load.

Originally posted by DanitaKusor

Originally posted by donpopuki

Announicing there's a stress test days after they promised people beta access if they pre-purchased the game is a bad PR move. Especially if they don't allow beta testers into the stress test. Yes yes, "stress test isn't beta!" is what I keep hearing, well I've been part of many betas and there were stress during the betas so the terms aren't mutualy exculsive. In fact this particular non-beta stress test is the exception. 

They didn't announce there was a stress test.  There were some comments on twitter (mainly about not breaking the NDA) after people starting asking them questions about the stress test over twitter and via other forums.

A stress test can mean a lot of things though.  Blizzard are calling inviting 275,000 people to the Diablo III beta a stress test as well. Bioware did a stress test for SWTOR by getting everyone to submit a in game support ticket at set times through their beta weekends. Who knows what Arenanet was looking to test under load.

From the looks of things:

1.) Testing logins. People have mentioned (not under NDA) that they had difficulty logging in and would frequently get disconnected.

2.) Server Lag - There was a considerable amount, but not too bad overall.