Always want to be a fly on the wall in their IT department right now.  Someone is getting yelled at lol.

Originally posted by tordurbar

Originally posted by Hokie

I'd imagine they are getting seriously swamped from the EU and early risers on the Eastcoast.

It is still summer vacation and a Saturday to boot.

I need sleep anyway, but damn I was having a hella fun time.

Early riser here. Nuts. I should have slept in.  I wonder how long the MMORPG forums will stay up. I had major lag trying to post :)  Oh what fun!

Yup, taking me like eight seconds for each post to load. lols

Originally posted by Voiidiin

Its really odd how things went from stress test and BWEs working fine to FUSTERCLUCK on release. ANet really had no idea it was going to be this popular ? 

It just seems so odd that they were not better prepared, if its this bad with just us pre-purchasers, WTF is going to happen on the 28th ?

You do know that is one of the reasons they have early head starts. Is to try and space the mass log in attempts out over a few days (some times a week).

Any system can be innundated, its why DNS attacks are still effective. And thats basically what is happeneing. It will get sorted out. Have some patience, we'll all get to play some more.

Originally posted by Ohn03s
They are unable to keep their servers stable, oh well. I will just play some TSW(At least that gane was playable during headstart/Launch ^^ )

To bad it makes me fall asleep.

Originally posted by steeler989

So here is my thoughts on all of this.

OBVIOUSLY they were not so prepared for how popular this was going to be.

I do not think that they had this many people playing in all the betas or stress tests, so this is why the servers went arj df;aghdfsgdg.

Do you guys agree or disagree?

Agree.  No matter how well you prepare, when something is this popular worldwide, you can never truly test the full amount that will slam your servers at launch.  They hype last night was CRAZY.  Not in a bad way, like in a FUN way, but it shows how much people want this game out NOW.  I remember WoW having this issue in almost it's entire first year.  And Blizzard had to scramble to buy new servers to accomodate the extremely large amount of people.  

Also makes one wonder, if the average gamer doesn't know he/she can test the game when buying the game early with Anet's deal on this one or if there were THAT many people who just refuse to beta test at all so as not to spoil a game for themselves.  Food for thought.

Originally posted by chryses

Don't you love MPOG. I was thinking my firewall had messed up... server down I am guessing.

So far so good though. I was logging in very easily. Jacked up the graphics and still getting 40fps on my laptop. 

Graphics is definitely ramped up from Beta weekends to. The centaurs looked so much better.

Grabbing the names you want is tough though.  I got close enough but even logging in early I lucked out

 

I agree. The graphics were beefed up for launch. Looking at my stress test pictures to launch, oh boy...major difference.

Originally posted by Hokie

Originally posted by Voiidiin

Its really odd how things went from stress test and BWEs working fine to FUSTERCLUCK on release. ANet really had no idea it was going to be this popular ? 

It just seems so odd that they were not better prepared, if its this bad with just us pre-purchasers, WTF is going to happen on the 28th ?

You do know that is one of the reasons they have early head starts. Is to try and space the mass log in attempts out over a few days (some times a week).

Any system can be innundated, its why DNS attacks are still effective. And thats basically what is happeneing. It will get sorted out. Have some patience, we'll all get to play some more.

No i totally agree with you, not being impatient just more curious how they were not better prepared with all the pre-purchases they had there should have been better indicators for this night.

Originally posted by Voiidiin

Originally posted by Ohn03s
They are unable to keep their servers stable, oh well. I will just play some TSW(At least that gane was playable during headstart/Launch ^^ )

To bad it makes me fall asleep.

 FYI Ohn03s: Even WoW, and yes, TSW had their share of problems at launch.  Nothing new.  Have a nice day!

Cheers!

Originally posted by Gamefun

Originally posted by Ohn03s
They are unable to keep their servers stable, oh well. I will just play some TSW(At least that gane was playable during headstart/Launch ^^ )

The Secret World didn't have the magnitude of people Guild Wars 2 has for launch that is why The Secret World didn't crash much. Thing's happen, thing's will happen regardless of what you think.

I am aware that high serverload breaks things, but they might just as well scale a bit more between multiple login servers, considering they had a fair amount of stress tests it would be fair to expect that they have managed their serverload correctly :)

There is a high demand, true. But they are payed to keep the service online by the end users and due to the amount of sales they have a fair estimation about the amount of clients that Log on. 

The only time the TSW Servers fully crashed was during the free weekend but they where able to restore it quite quickly. Apperently the demand was far higher than expected but alright, whenever you open the doors for everyone without payement those things can happen. 

Originally posted by jaserion
i guess that getting the blah blah firewall error is normal?  i was on last night and logged off for bed.  now i cant get in.  

Yes it's normal. ArenaNet already commented on it, they said they are aware of EU/US log in errors and misc bug's happening right now. It's the reason they decided to bring the servers down so they can fix them.

  I would rather them bring them down now then in the middle of the day, although I know for the EU people it sucks for them but thing's happpen. No one is perfect. If you expect bugs, servers coming down for fixes, its easier to cope with.

Originally posted by Ohn03s

Originally posted by Gamefun

Originally posted by Ohn03s
They are unable to keep their servers stable, oh well. I will just play some TSW(At least that gane was playable during headstart/Launch ^^ )

The Secret World didn't have the magnitude of people Guild Wars 2 has for launch that is why The Secret World didn't crash much. Thing's happen, thing's will happen regardless of what you think.

I am aware that high serverload breaks things, but they might just as well scale a bit more between multiple login servers, considering they had a fair amount of stress tests it would be fair to expect that they have managed their serverload correctly :)

There is a high demand, true. But they are payed to keep the service online by the end users and due to the amount of sales they have a fair estimation about the amount of clients that Log on. 

The only time the TSW Servers fully crashed was during the free weekend but they where able to restore it quite quickly. Apperently the demand was far higher than expected but alright, whenever you open the doors for everyone without payement those things can happen. 

I agree with you on what you are saying.

Originally posted by Ohn03s

Originally posted by Gamefun

Originally posted by Ohn03s
They are unable to keep their servers stable, oh well. I will just play some TSW(At least that gane was playable during headstart/Launch ^^ )

The Secret World didn't have the magnitude of people Guild Wars 2 has for launch that is why The Secret World didn't crash much. Thing's happen, thing's will happen regardless of what you think.

I am aware that high serverload breaks things, but they might just as well scale a bit more between multiple login servers, considering they had a fair amount of stress tests it would be fair to expect that they have managed their serverload correctly :)

There is a high demand, true. But they are payed to keep the service online by the end users and due to the amount of sales they have a fair estimation about the amount of clients that Log on. 

The only time the TSW Servers fully crashed was during the free weekend but they where able to restore it quite quickly. Apperently the demand was far higher than expected but alright, whenever you open the doors for everyone without payement those things can happen. 

So it was OK for TSW, but its not OK for GW2? You say they fixed it quickly on TSW, servers have been down less than an hour (and its only for some, not everyone) on GW2 and youre already condemning them and assuming they wont fix it quickly (even though the devs have posted multiple tweets about it already within minutes of it going down and being looked into).

Troll harder please.

Just incase the internet hides my tone here, stating upfront that I'm not raging.

I'm having error 37 flashbacks.  I know the error is that the login servers aren't working, and i've been in enough early weekends/launches to not really be bothered by this by now, but argh I just wanna get my gw2 on!  

Originally posted by kostoslav
I m gettin something about not been able to login and how its probably due to firewall or rooter. What is that all about?

The errors related with firewall/conectivity are still being investigated by our teams. We will give you more info as soon as we get it. ^DO

and

We are aware of issues with server connectivity. We will keep you up to date with our progress. ^DO

That is what it is about.

Originally posted by kostoslav
I m gettin something about not been able to login and how its probably due to firewall or rooter. What is that all about?

It's a problem with the servers. It's nothing on your end. A lot of people are getting those errors. ArenaNet has already said they are looking into it and are looking for solutions to fix the problems.

Originally posted by kostoslav
I m gettin something about not been able to login and how its probably due to firewall or rooter. What is that all about?

Despite the error placing all the blame on you, its actually coming up because the login servers are down right now.

Originally posted by Billybob2006

Originally posted by kostoslav
I m gettin something about not been able to login and how its probably due to firewall or rooter. What is that all about?

Despite the error placing all the blame on you, its actually coming up because the login servers are down right now.

This