Stop with event weekends?

guild deputy

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2006

Somewhere in the Netherlands

Fallit Imago [Fi]

Mo/W

The reason why i posted this title is the constant errors in european servers. I noticed that every weekend when a new event has been launched, guild wars has much more bugs, which is quite logical, but also a lot of disconnect errors like code=40 or code=13. So why even try to stimulate people to play by all kinds of events, if it just makes it impossible to play for certain players during that weekend?

If the constant code=40 or code=13 is not caused by events or other updates like that, my apologies.

Diddy bow

Diddy bow

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2006

Jawsome!!!!!!!!!!!

looking for one :p

A/D

i was just cured of a wave of 13's there, only seems to happen around events like you say.

Chop it Off

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

Saviors of [EviL]

A/

100% agree.

im on the us servers but it seems every event and beyond i lag so bad, rubber bands,058s, 007's without getting the reconnect to go back in game"GG on that one anet", etc...

its so bad ive been playing presearing cause its the only place i don't lag horribly.


maybe if they spent time fixing the game a little, me purchasing chapter 4 may actually be an option. but the way its going, it isn't likely.

J snukka

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2005

New York

i havent experienced these problems, but if you want them to look into it then why don't you include details information about when you got logged off, where you were etc. they ask for detailed information everytime someone mentions their is a problem with the servers or bugs. This will help them fix things, before they put out other weekend events.

VitisVinifera

VitisVinifera

Banned

Join Date: Nov 2005

Northern California

HoTR

N/Me

man am I glad I'm not on Euro, I keep hearing about how bad it is.......

yet somehow you guys keep UW/FoW out of our hands!

Grasping Darkness

Grasping Darkness

Banned

Join Date: Nov 2005

In N.C. U.S.A. I can't remember the last time I got an error that wasn't due to something on my side like a modem disconnect. I enjoy the weekend events very much and want them to say.

lord_shar

lord_shar

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2005

near SF, CA

If I had to guess, it probably isn't the client updates that are causing the Error codes -- it's the extra network traffic that results from the patch downloads along with increased user load due to the special event. The only way these can be corrected is for ANET to increase their server, network, and isp bandwidth, but these don't come cheap.

Grunntar

Grunntar

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Stop the events because it *encourages* people to play?!?! And that makes sense how? It's a game, and it's meant to be played.

Quote:
Originally Posted by guild deputy
it just makes it impossible to play for certain players during that weekend
Ah, it makes sense to those players...

Sorry, I don't agree to the self-interest. I say bring 'em on! More event weekends, please!

- Grunntar

(P.S., I have sympathy, but this is not the way to resolve it. I don't pretend to know how to resolve it, but asking the entire GW population not to play, and miss out on their enjoyment, is certainly not the answer.)

Neo Nugget

Neo Nugget

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

I love the weekend events.keepem comin! im american server btw:P

Barrett

Barrett

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

UK

W/

i like most of the events except the gvg event
events stay!

divinechancellor

divinechancellor

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

Limited Liability Company [LLC]

E/

Whenever there's an update, there are two instances of the game at the same time: the old version and the updated version. Your character lives in the old version until you restart the client.

onerabbit

onerabbit

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Thanks to all the guru [mods]

i admit..i do like alot of the events..pve events that is, as im not keen on pvp.. but with these constant errors id prefer not to have the events, maybe once a month..make it more special, as all it is now is..*wonder what event were have next week* for me it gets boring.. but once a month youve got something to looks forwards to...and less errors to worry about..

cthulhu reborn

cthulhu reborn

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2007

the Netherlands

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by VitisVinifera
yet somehow you guys keep UW/FoW out of our hands!

That's cause we kick ass... Normally we play with one hand tied behind our backs ;-)


Seriously though, from what I've noticed, there are problems but not on all servers at the same time. I got 013'd earlier today and nobody else in my guild did....last time we had problems different people had it at different times too...so yes there are problems but it's not that all Euro servers crash all the time...Today I could log in again within a few minutes and it was fine...

Aera

Aera

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2005

Galactic President Superstar Mc [awsm]

E/

I made a nice amount of champpoints this weekend...stop thinking about yourself would work

Omega X

Omega X

Ninja Unveiler

Join Date: Jun 2005

Louisiana, USA

Boston Guild[BG]

W/Me

I thought that the European servers was having issues?

Meat Axe

Meat Axe

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2007

Brisbane, Australia

R/

Yeah, the euro servers are having problems (though i never experienced them when i was on there. Then I switched to American ones, since Australian players get better ping from there). Anet has said that they have a team working on it, and it's gonna take some time. I don't think that they should stop the weekend events, since these events are what keep some people playing. Also, they're fun (I'm not much into the PvP ones either though... I might be someday, but not at the moment).

The only problem I see with the weekend events is that they keep dragging me away from deathleveling for defender of ascalon title, so it keeps taking longer and longer to get.

*Alexiel*

*Alexiel*

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2006

England, and on here... http://alexiel-star.deviantart.com/

CPx

R/Mo

I actually like the weekend events. Granted, some are pointless to me -but to someone else probably worthwhile.

I'm on euro, and Ive been getting a flood of code 13 errors aswell but I don't think weekend events should be stopped just because it brings along some bugs-if they are indeed due to the events at all. I'd be much more in favour of Anet fixing the bugs personally =P

WildmouseX

WildmouseX

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

N/R

they need to run at least one more event, because when they decided to end the gamer one, they took the token collectors away right away and i got stuck with 860 victory tokens - so after i get to trade those in, they can stop if they want.

*Alexiel*

*Alexiel*

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2006

England, and on here... http://alexiel-star.deviantart.com/

CPx

R/Mo

There'll always be bugs when new builds are uploaded, be it a weekend event or a new region. =/

I don't think the answer lies in stopping something just because it brings bugs-if that were the 'solution' then Guild wars might aswell stay the exact same and never offer anything new at all.

Gustin

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2006

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Grasping Darkness
In N.C. U.S.A. I can't remember the last time I got an error that wasn't due to something on my side like a modem disconnect. I enjoy the weekend events very much and want them to say.
Yea, I'm in NC as well and I rarely see error codes. Occasionally a 007 code but not that often.

Cherno

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

Stars of Destiny

E/

I like the weekend events, but don't need them every weekend.

XvArchonvX

XvArchonvX

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

R/

I like event weekends.

/notsigned

Zorglubb

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2007

/notsigned

I'm on Euro servers and I only remember one serious network problem, and this one was the provider's fault (NCsoft servers became unreachable for some obscure reason for most of a sunday, in France, Switzerland and Italia, for that provider only). So I would guess the posters with errors have a problem on their end, or somewhere on the wires leading to their homes.

upier

upier

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Done.

[JUNK]

something that just hit me - while i mostly dont care if weekend events happen - theres exactly one reason why i might want them to stop.
if the weekend events take so much of anets time that they are unable to fix this game - then by all means stop them! if they are just lazy and they dont want to fix the game - then i dont mind the events.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zorglubb
/notsigned
I'm on Euro servers and I only remember one serious network problem, and this one was the provider's fault (NCsoft servers became unreachable for some obscure reason for most of a sunday, in France, Switzerland and Italia, for that provider only). So I would guess the posters with errors have a problem on their end, or somewhere on the wires leading to their homes.
ohh you mean the one yesterday?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gaile
Edit to add: Just got a network report, and yes, there was a brief outage about 40 minutes ago (20:25 GMT, approximately). Network Engineering is seeing players able to reconnect now, but they will continue to monitor this!
or did you mean any other?
since that would mean that there was more then 1

Curse You

Curse You

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2006

South Pole

The Magus Order

N/Mo

I made a thread about not doing so many weekend events... 4 months ago?

carbajac

carbajac

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2006

The Medicine Cabinet [PILL]

E/

I like the weekend events, makes things interesting.

/notsigned

Shmanka

Shmanka

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2006

In Your Head

The Brave Will Fall [Nion]

Me/

I like the idea... but they aren't actually putting thought into them IMO.

Same things over and over, limiting people from one area of the game to the next. Even though the PvE to PvP population is about 80%-20% it seems insanely biased. Like the double chap point weekend... like 40 guilds could get these points? so like about 10%(huge exaggeration here) of the entire guildwars population had a chance? No offence congrats to all those who have obtained its just like, top 500 guilds couldn't even get the damn points, and PvE got bit in the rear end again.

lundis

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2006

Ingame

The Monstrous Fangs [fang]

Me/

I used to like the events alot but now there are events every week so i just ignore them nowadays..

They could reduce events to once a month :P

Meat Axe

Meat Axe

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2007

Brisbane, Australia

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by upier
if the weekend events take so much of anets time that they are unable to fix this game - then by all means stop them! if they are just lazy and they dont want to fix the game - then i dont mind the events.
Just to put your mind at rest, I doubt that the team in charge of doing weekend events is in charge of bug fixes. I mean, if there's a bug in the weekend events, sure I think that the team in charge of these events would be the ones to fix it. But there's other teams allocated to the rest of the game, so weekend events wouldn't have much affect.

Xunlai Agent Smith

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2007

Berlin

Angel Sharks [DVDF] / Three Fame [Run]

Please keep the event weekends but lock the ladder when you test new classes or make major skill updates. Otherwise there will probably be more ladder resets in the future. Other than that keep the weekends coming!

MagicWarrior

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2007

Sorry... I say more events please! They're a lot of fun!

Etta

Etta

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2006

Mancland, British Empire

Manchester, UK. EU server, I had a bit of error40,13 during the event, but nothing that stop me from playing really. Apart from the guild server down or bug most of the time but that was it, people still log on and play as normal.