Originally posted by helthros

Originally posted by Loke666

Originally posted by Kost

Originally posted by joocheese
 

Anyone else think its too much of a coincidence? I wonder if GW2 is attempting to, in a small way, crash D3's party a bit. I know its not on the release date (that would be to obvious), but its close enough. Or am I reading too much into this?

You're reading too much into it, Anet just wants to try and iron a few things out before the next BWE.

Yeah, they are probably just checking the login servers so there wont be a repeat of the friday bo-bo they had last BWE.

I don´t think anyone interested in D3 would decide to wait a few months for GW2 just because they have a stress test the day before release, and I don´t think anyone should wait.

Gw2 wont be out for a while so trying to steal players from releasing games makes no sense, particularly games from another genre.

 

Because you'll be able to replicate the same amount of logins on a Monday than that of a weekend right?

 

This is about 70% marketing/promotion and 30% actual stress testing. It's pretty smart if you ask me. It's also not a coincidence that their first BWE was the exact weekend of the TERA OBT.

 

It's not about them stealing players from other releasing games, it's about them losing potential customers/interest to other games releasing before theirs. It's pretty smart marketing strategy if you ask me.

 

I just hope people don't come back bitchin and complaining about the game lagging or having login errors after the stress test. I don't understand why so many people confuse betas for trials.

The problem with cynicism as opposed to healthy skepticism is it makes you wrong as often as it makes you right.

You are wrong.  This is not a marketing or promotional thing.  It would be handled differently.  As for your testing scenario; you don't know what you are talking about.

I guarantee you this is a test of something they changed and is being used to validate whether their hypohtesis bears fruit.

They don't need to test the servers until they crash they just need a decent enough sample to collect metrics.  i don't need to run out of memory to detect memory leak, I just need to run my program for a span of time and monitor the things I know are dynamically created and destroyed.

That is why the hours are so funky.

Probably fixed the mesmer portal exploit.  Will try it anyways. If it still exists than that will crash the server pretty quickly.

Originally posted by Lucrecia

Probably fixed the mesmer portal exploit.  Will try it anyways. If it still exists than that will crash the server pretty quickly.

Never heard of this one. Exactly what does it do that potentially makes servers unhappy?

Anyway, perfect EU times. Last BWE the EU login server practically made the whole of Friday unplayable for many EU players (I was one of the dedicated few who bashed the login button enough to eventually get in), and I know several people who completely ignored the entire weekend because of the server instability and inability to even log in. I think this might be why they picked a time that perfectly suits Europe, to try to fix that issue for the next event, and perhaps to give us some extra hours to make up for that lost Friday.

bet your ass i will be there doing some WvW on my necro.

Originally posted by raapnaap

Originally posted by Lucrecia

Probably fixed the mesmer portal exploit.  Will try it anyways. If it still exists than that will crash the server pretty quickly.

Never heard of this one. Exactly what does it do that potentially makes servers unhappy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkwB8xPWH3A

WoW long gone

Tera oh no thank you 

TSW PS2 game also no thank you

Give US Freaaaaaaaaaaaaaaking Guild Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaars 2 

just fired up the client and noticed a quick download of almost 40MB.. can't wait for Monday!!

Originally posted by Galaxyz

just fired up the client and noticed a quick download of almost 40MB.. can't wait for Monday!!

Thanks! Just got it myself! Bring it on!

Going to make up for being a PvE nerd last BWE, WvW FOR 7 HOURS STRAIGHT, !

Originally posted by felchawe

WoW long gone

Tera oh no thank you 

TSW PS2 game also no thank you

Give US Freaaaaaaaaaaaaaaking Guild Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaars 2 

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA give us GW2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but that wont happen at least until october i guess *cry*

Originally posted by SoulOfRaziel

Originally posted by felchawe

WoW long gone

Tera oh no thank you 

TSW PS2 game also no thank you

Give US Freaaaaaaaaaaaaaaking Guild Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaars 2 

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA give us GW2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but that wont happen at least until october i guess *cry*

i bet GW2 will be lauch in July. xDD

Well that just peachy guess who will be at fecking work,sods law strikes again! 

*runs around in excitement* GOD F*^&ING DAMMIT! Hurry up monday! I wanna play...I begged for the day off and everything!

Originally posted by darker70

Well that just peachy guess who will be at fecking work,sods law strikes again! 

Hehe for once it helps living in Europe... there (CEST time), the test will be from 8:00 pm to 3:00 am... GW2 night baby ;)

I love how the mods closed my thread on the same topic ;)...sneaky sneaky. Starting to think they dont like me :P

I think ANet is realizing just how much faster they can get the game out with more of these tests.  I hope to see lots more in recent weeks.  Does anyone suppose they'll have the GPU issue fixed this time around, or do you think that optimization will be much closer to release?

Originally posted by The_Korrigan

Originally posted by darker70

Well that just peachy guess who will be at fecking work,sods law strikes again! 

Hehe for once it helps living in Europe... there (CEST time), the test will be from 8:00 pm to 3:00 am... GW2 night baby ;)

I second that. Europe gets the prize this time (I already informed my boss that I won't be super-efficient on tuesday morning)

Originally posted by Eir_S

I think ANet is realizing just how much faster they can get the game out with more of these tests.  I hope to see lots more in recent weeks.  Does anyone suppose they'll have the GPU issue fixed this time around, or do you think that optimization will be much closer to release?

As far as I know, and judging from barely ~40 mb client update it's mostly netcode optimization and probably potential fixes for login throttling. There won't be any actual game bug fixes in this stress test. All this is about is checking if the the updates to network they made actually help or not while also giving people the chance to fool around for few hours to keep their interest. 

Originally posted by Ezhae

Originally posted by Eir_S

I think ANet is realizing just how much faster they can get the game out with more of these tests.  I hope to see lots more in recent weeks.  Does anyone suppose they'll have the GPU issue fixed this time around, or do you think that optimization will be much closer to release?

As far as I know, and judging from barely ~40 mb client update it's mostly netcode optimization and probably potential fixes for login throttling. There won't be any actual game bug fixes in this stress test. All this is about is checking if the the updates to network they made actually help or not while also giving people the chance to fool around for few hours to keep their interest. 

It was mentioned elsewhere that we'd be on the same client as the last test, hence no character wipe. While the 40mb patch may have fixed a few issues, I don't get the impression we'll see a massive difference in anything aside from connectivity (possibly fixes for issues getting people into the same instance?).

I think you're right, seems like this is about testing alterations related to network issues prior to the next big weekend event.

fired up the client again, now it shows info about the stress test... cant help but clicking Play just to listen to the epic score!