Should GW:EN release date be delayed?

This has been going on for weeks, hardly inspires confidence does it! I haven't had any lag at all in the 4-5 days... I did maybe 7-10 days ago tho...

Umm, ya anyway, I don't think they should delay it.

and by many, are you referring to the majority of the 3.5million strong player base? Such a sadly misinterpreted statistic.
They have sold 3.5 million total copies across 3 campaigns,with the number of players with multiple accts and/or all three chapters this is hardly a "3.5 million strong player base", combine that with the amount of players who bought the game and no longer play .5 million would be a generous guess.
Sorry for clearing that up for you, now by all means get back to whatever the hell kind of misinterpretation of what he was actually talking about you were after.

@OP It's wishful thinking on your part to expect Anet to hold up their new expansion just because the existing one works so poorly for a lot of people, After all they always claim it's not on their end so there is nothing to be fixed by them.
The fact that it hits broadly across many players {that the game normally works fine for} during their special events is merely a coincidence.

You know if you'd stop downloading porn while trying to play guildwars at the same time, you wouldn't experience nearly as much lagg. Is that how you got it to run better?

The problem regarding lag is persisting and making the game totally unplayable at times, (tonight for example).

Should GW:EN release date be delayed if this problem persist?

I ask as there does not seem to be end in sight and the problem, for me at lease, whilst spasmodic, seems to be worsening.

I was really looking forward to GW:EN but if this persist I may have to think again on spending more money on a game I can not play 100% of the time.

On a side note, please do not have any more weekend events whilst this lag issue continues, for many it’s a complete waste of time. While I can understand you being upset by the lag (I've experienced it too, tonight is the first night it is back to "normal"), you show little understanding of the software industry in this case.

Why would ANET which is full of programmers, graphics designers and lvl editors postpone all their work because of a network glitch? I think it has been stated quite clearly on these forums several times that the lag issue is due to a router upgrade that one provider in Germany did that caused all sorts of problems. ANET is working with their vendors on the issue, but it is out of their hands for the near term. I'm sure that they will learn a lesson from it and put some safeguards in place longer term, but that is out of the hands of 99% of the people within their employ.

Let's say that ANET does pull all their people off the projects they are working on to focus solely on the lag issue... What in the heck would a graphics designer be able to do to resolve the problem? A majority of software programmers would be useless as well, since we are talking about a router upgrade that went bad (which is a very specified field, not something that many programmers know except for the basics)...

Yeah, the lag issue sucks, and ANET needs to get it resolved. But let's not be stupid about it.

Is that how you got it to run better? That's how I fixed it =D

and by many, are you referring to the majority of the 3.5million strong player base? I wish people would quit posting this falsehood.

GW has SOLD 3.5 million UNITS, including all chapters and PvP unlock packs. Since most people have all three chapters, the player base is probably, at maximum, a bit over a million people.

Now consider how many people are actually playing, and I would guesstimate between 500,000 and 800,000 actual people playing the game, somewhere between 50,000 and 200,000 online at any time based on district counts worldwide.

WoW does not have 8.5 million active players; GW does not have 3.5 million active players. Those are marketing numbers designed for press releases. Reality is much more modest.

GW has SOLD 3.5 million UNITS, including all chapters and PvP unlock packs. Since most people have all three chapters, the player base is probably, at maximum, a bit over a million people. If I remember correctly, those numbers were for a single campaign's sales. So therefore there are likely around 2 million people playing (many people have more than 1 account).

If I remember correctly, those numbers were for a single campaign's sales. So therefore there are likely around 2 million people playing (many people have more than 1 account). No, that # reflects sales of all GW chapters. Read the NCSoft quarterly reports, and you'll see that these numbers reflect sales of individual packages/boxes/chapters.

People own more than one chapter, and you know that many people have multiple accounts, and that a significant number of people have moved on to others games.