Originally posted by Psychow

Originally posted by Eberhardt

Originally posted by Gamefun

Originally posted by maji
The lack of forums is really annoying and I don't understand it. MMORPGs are about the community, and the official forums are important for that.

I agree with you. This is the reasoning they gave, which still doesn't make sense because people are going to whine no matter what or when they turned the forum switch on.

 

 

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/z1poz/guild_wars_2_status_wednesday_august_29/

Forums - Our most important priority at the moment is to ensure that the game runs stably and flawlessly. So as to not create additional demand on our infrastructure and on our programming team, we made the decision not to open the forums until the initial mass influx of players has calmed down a bit.

How does that not make sense? Anet hosts their own site and their forum. Putting it up would mean extra bandwith ontop of the mass influx of people logging onto the game servers. Though the servers for the game and site and forum are seperate its all on the same line and all share bandwith. They are keeping the forums down until the initial burst of logins and pings to their server has died down and the bandwith usage stablizes.

Would you rather have both the game and forums up but both working in poor fashion, random disconnects in game, super lag and rubberbanding, server downtime for 6-10 hours, and forums not accepting posts or not recognizing your login info....ooooor would you like to have a playable game with 80% working features that is still fun with the minor issues it is having that the team is working on.

People sure do love to complain. And will take the smallest things and complain their arses off.

 

Are you seriously suggesting that GW2 can not handle enough internet traffic to manage their game and forums? Are they hosting via broadband or dial up? lol Oh my...

Their forums run through the same authentication servers as the rest of their stuff. Everything in GW2 is account based, not server based. They are keeping the forums offline until they resolve the capacity issues as having them open would be generating extra load they can do without right now, assuming we could even log on to them if they were up anyway.

Remember how Blizzards forums go down during maintainance? Well, same thing except ArenaNet can pick and choose which things they have online/offline.

The only thing that I've had trouble with is the TRADING POST and the MAIL SYSTEM. Although I did get a little lag, that might have been my fault.

Honestly though I've played free MMORPGs that's been out for YEARS with bugs worse than this. And like many people already said, wasn't WoWs launch a bit shaky as well? Just give it time. It's only been out 2-3 days.

And you know the main reason why most of these problems are occuring? THERE'S TOO MANY DAMN PEOPLE ONLINE AT THE SAME TIME. Lag because servers can't handle it, TP closed because servers can't handle it, map queing because too many people. And before you say this was what the stress test was for... They never had 400k players all online in the stress test all at once.

I would describe the launch as "rough", at least compared to recent launches like TOR, RIFT, Aion, ...

The interface issues are really giving me grief as a guild officer. We need more people on our team, and there seem to be many who want to join us, but I usually can't get them to join without trouble. Even existing members have been kicked randomly or are sometimes unable to talk / view the roster. All of that makes organising events a pain in the ass as well.

Trading post issues explain themselves, I sure expect there to be a massive downward price spiral when everyone can finally put all their useless crap or genuine goods on there.

Yesterday we also had our first organized guild event in WvW, but this was disrupted by massive lagspikes which basically meant seeing your char frozen in place for 10-20s every minute or so. People really got tired of that fast.

Finally you have mail bugs and group invites or attempts to "join in" with others that fail.

Despite all of that, I'm still really enjoying the game, as luckily the issues don't stress the regular PvE too much.

Originally posted by Psychow

I logged in, the guild was completely messed up. Representing was broken. Guild upgrades broken. My location was "unknown". I just logged off in disgust.

Hopefully they will have this unplayable mess fixed by tomorrow. 

 

Glad none of you are having any problems are don't care if you do.

If you relogged it would have fixed itself, instead of being mature about it let's all just rage at everything.

The game plays fine with my pc, I wouldnt say itll come close to a disaster. So far I have enjoyed playing the game even without the trading post and the mail system takn down once in a while because people were abusing it. ONly concern I ahve is with their overflow joining friends and dungeon issues. Not being able to enjoy the game with people you know sucks and makes the fun factor go down.

While most of the issues are indeed not gamebreaking, they are more than just a little annoying if you add it all. Quite a rough launch but no disaster. If they won't manage to fix the guild, chat and trade systems soon it would be quite embarrassing though.

why and earth you need a forum when you are in the game is beyond me. jeebus...

anyways launch is excatly like any other mmo launch so useless ranting this thread period.

Originally posted by Saydien

While most of the issues are indeed not gamebreaking, they are more than just a little annoying if you add it all. Quite a rough launch but no disaster. If they won't manage to fix the guild, chat and trade systems soon it would be quite embarrassing though.

Quoting for truth.

But would like to add that many consider not being able to play together with their friends gamebraking as gamebraking can get. And if playing teamd up with your friend is a peak of your enjoyment than the lack of it equals sitting in a que not being able to play.

edit: solo nerds don't care obviously

Originally posted by StarI

Originally posted by Saydien

While most of the issues are indeed not gamebreaking, they are more than just a little annoying if you add it all. Quite a rough launch but no disaster. If they won't manage to fix the guild, chat and trade systems soon it would be quite embarrassing though.

 

Quoting for truth.

But would like to add that many consider not being able to play together with their friends gamebraking as gamebraking can get. And if playing teamd up with your friend is a peak of your enjoyment than the lack of it equals sitting in a que not being able to play.

 

edit: solo nerds don't care obviously

This. Not being able to play with your friends is indeed gamebreaking. At least for someone who has friends who play games. This is the sole reason we've already lost guildies. They felt it was too much a solo experience.

Originally posted by Zezda

If you relogged it would have fixed itself, instead of being mature about it let's all just rage at everything.

Just no. Guild features are bugged as hell.

Our guild master can't see anything in his guild window. He cant invite, he cant kick, he cant do anything.

Guild chat has lags of 1-2 minutes, and sometimes its completely down.

Every 2nd login, people cant see anyone in the guild and the guild window says they are alone in game, but they arent.

Originally posted by gwei1984

Originally posted by Zezda

If you relogged it would have fixed itself, instead of being mature about it let's all just rage at everything.

Just no. Guild features are bugged as hell.

 

Our guild master can't see anything in his guild window. He cant invite, he cant kick, he cant do anything.

Guild chat has lags of 1-2 minutes, and sometimes its completely down.

Every 2nd login, people cant see anyone in the guild and the guild window says they are alone in game, but they arent.

Anytime I log in and the guild chat isn't working or it doesn't show the location people are at or anything I just relog and it works fine. Chat itself is fine after that, my guess is when you log in the guild information is collated from the servers and if that process does not go through correctly, due to the capacity issues they are having, then this is why people are having so many issues.

The issue with the guild masters is probably a bit more complicated but for anyone else in the guild a simple relog will fix any issues with the guild chat/system.

It will not, guild chat was bugged the entirety of yesterday evening, relogging didn't do anything.

The roster not displaying people is an extremely common issue, relogging does not always help, the issue does seem to fix itself in time, but until it does people are often not represented and can not see guild chat while they are in fact in the guild and chose to represent.

I've also spent a lot of time re-inviting and trying to fix problems guildmates had these last few days. It is not an issue that a simple relog can fix.

Even if it could be fixed like that, it's difficult to inform other players of what's going on in the guild if you aren't sure whether or not they'll hear you. Guild chat has been completely devoid of life for the past few days due to the issues.

Originally posted by Zezda

 

Anytime I log in and the guild chat isn't working or it doesn't show the location people are at or anything I just relog and it works fine. Chat itself is fine after that, my guess is when you log in the guild information is collated from the servers and if that process does not go through correctly, due to the capacity issues they are having, then this is why people are having so many issues.

The issue with the guild masters is probably a bit more complicated but for anyone else in the guild a simple relog will fix any issues with the guild chat/system.

if you worked for ANet problems would already be fixed first day I bet!

Originally posted by Svarcanum

Originally posted by StarI

Originally posted by Saydien

While most of the issues are indeed not gamebreaking, they are more than just a little annoying if you add it all. Quite a rough launch but no disaster. If they won't manage to fix the guild, chat and trade systems soon it would be quite embarrassing though.

 

Quoting for truth.

But would like to add that many consider not being able to play together with their friends gamebraking as gamebraking can get. And if playing teamd up with your friend is a peak of your enjoyment than the lack of it equals sitting in a que not being able to play.

 

edit: solo nerds don't care obviously

This. Not being able to play with your friends is indeed gamebreaking. At least for someone who has friends who play games. This is the sole reason we've already lost guildies. They felt it was too much a solo experience.

Oh come on, thats a bit dramatic. The game is not even a week old, and you are telling me people quit because they can't join a guild? I find that very hard to believe. I finally just got into my guild today, but have been in our voice chat from day 1. Sorry, bugs are expected at launch, every MMO player knows it.

This launch has been smooth for me. Never lagged once, never booted. So what if I had to wait for guild invtte and the trading has been down. There is so much more to do than that.

Originally posted by Atlan99

1) No forums.

2)Trading Post down

3)Mail System taken down sporadically

4)Rubberbanding/Lag Issues

5)Accounts Hacked/Accounts Banned

6)Little Accountability/Support

7)Bugged Guild Tabs/WvWvW Tabs

This launch seems to get worse with every passing day and Arenanet's ability to cope seems in question. Is this launch starting to spin out of control and become a disaster?

The other thing that seems very troubling, is having to go to third parties to find out what is going on.

1. No forum is a valid problem. I'm almost 100% sure that it was just taken down until things calm down after launch. Most of the time forum in early stage of every MMO turn to home for every whiner and complainer. One big toilet for never happy people. 

2. Trading post down - that's valid problem.

3. I'm sure it's because game was big hit. 1 milion pre-orders. That's even more than The Old Republic with EA, Bioware and Star Wars behind it. It's probably overcrowded with people. Because of that also loggin server sometimes is to busy and you must try few times if you want to get in.

4. No lag at all and I play since sutarday every night. Only laggy part is overflow server when we have people from ALL servers or most of them. When we talked yesterday after event some people were angry because "we use english on french server". Some said "it's german server" etc. Seems that on overflow server people gather from many servers. It's not overflow server for every normaln server it seems. 

5. I never heard about hacked accounts. Only ones are probably with passwords like "qwerty", "1234567", "god" and other common passwords. Idiots like that deserve to be hacked. One time Microsfot report that almost 1/3 milion accounts of hotmail was "hacked" this way. They just used common passwords and they tried it on accounts. This is dictionary method. There was reports that some people receive strange emails (almost sure it was scam). Well it's normal for popular game like GW2. Ignore scam, never use links in emails like that.

6. No idea about that tabs. Never had problems with them (WvWvW) but I'm not in the guild so I don't know about second one.

I think it's quite great launch. Better than last one (TOR) when I could not loggin in for more than week because of always full servers and more than 1000 people in queue that moved like turtle.