NCSoft store horribly slow

refer

refer

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2009

US

Is anybody else having problems with the NCSoft Store? It is like worse than dialup... pages take a minute or more to load every link, and timeout every step of the way.

EDIT: I did I get my free storage tab, after the first try too (even though the page timed out). So if you time out after confirming the "purchase" check Guild Wars anyways for it, it might have gone through. It's not "V" either, it's a pane associated with the 4th year update.

EDIT2: Seems like the site is really tanking now... did I get in before the real storm? KEEP TRYING GUYS. If you time out when you submitted it, it may have worked remember.

Black Metal

Black Metal

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2009

N/

I'm trying to get my free pane. Impossible.

refer

refer

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2009

US

Quote:
Originally Posted by Black Metal View Post
I'm trying to get my free pane. Impossible.
I think I've got mine. It's not "V" after all, it's a panel that is associated with the 4th year update. The site won't load at all for me now though. I wonder if these problems will be gone when the promo is over?

Verene

Verene

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jan 2009

[SOTA]

D/

I've not been able to get it to load all night.

Everyone's trying to get their free panes so it's bogging it down.

belladonna shylock

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2007

Hey Mallyx [icU]

Me/

i got mine. i just kept hitting the back page button and clicking again. Had a lot of loading errors. after about a dozen times it went through and i got it.

Kinetic Trilogy

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2009

N/Me

Please stop going to the website so that I can get my free storage tab. kthxbai.


Nah. Jk. I was at the point where I had to Login/Create Account and I tried making an account but kept popping up errors (Do i use the Account I use to Login to GW or a name on my account?) so it's making it hard for me.

refer

refer

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2009

US

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kinetic Trilogy View Post
Please stop going to the website so that I can get my free storage tab. kthxbai.


Nah. Jk. I was at the point where I had to Login/Create Account and I tried making an account but kept popping up errors (Do i use the Account I use to Login to GW or a name on my account?) so it's making it hard for me.
You have to make an NCSoft account, then link that with your Guild Wars one. Then when you go to buy you will click the account you want to apply it to (though that step times out, but if you make it through you'll need to confirm that, which times out too).

http://www.guildwars.com/products/ex...orage_pane.php remember

Minako Sawai

Minako Sawai

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2008

A/

After hours of trying all I ended up with was the message:

"Invalid Coupon Code. The Coupon Code you have entered is either not available on this product, or you have exceeded the maximum number of uses."

I hope this is just a problem due to the heavy load and that I'll be able to actually get the free pane. I've already seen others mentioning the same problem, so we need someone from ANet to respond to this problem ASAP.

Meat Axe

Meat Axe

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2007

Brisbane, Australia

R/

I managed to get all the way to confirming the coupon code, and it said it was invalid or that I'd already used it. I'm gonna assume this is an error due to the huge amounts of people trying to access their servers, and try again tomorrow. Hopefully it'll be a bit faster then.

Shadowfox1125

Shadowfox1125

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2005

PST

W/

Quote:
We were unable to verify your login. Either your login information was entered incorrectly, or the account system is currently unavailable. Please check the normal downtime schedule and announcements.
I know the account info isn't wrong.. -_-
I just reset my password to a temporary one and changed it.

Kinetic Trilogy

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2009

N/Me

If only I could just MAKE an account lol

I hope I haven't already. I didn't start playing GW again till a couple weeks ago, and I stopped playing for a few months so...don't remembe if I have one or not.

duckboy

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2007

Duckboy

E/Me

same here....why couldn't they just allow this thru the gw store :/

refer

refer

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2009

US

Quote:
Originally Posted by duckboy View Post
same here....why couldn't they just allow this thru the gw store :/
For 9.99 you can get it in game with the "In-Game Store Upgrade".

Curse You

Curse You

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2006

South Pole

The Magus Order

N/Mo

Even better, why not just GIVE it to us when we load a character within the allotted time. Really, it's supposed to be for everyone anyways, why the heck do we need to go through all this crap to get our slot?

Kula

Kula

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

West Coast, USA

Mo/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by Curse You View Post
Even better, why not just GIVE it to us when we load a character within the allotted time. Really, it's supposed to be for everyone anyways, why the heck do we need to go through all this crap to get our slot?
Maybe it's a way to take a census of people that still play the game.

And I'm sure NCSoft is happy to have your info if it didn't have it already.

Kinetic Trilogy

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2009

N/Me

True, but the suggestion above is making me confused. I was trying to go thru the in-game store at first (Assuming that was what I needed to do) but found out you had to go to the website. Why the hell not just do it on the in-game store...

Kronos Ledaloth

Kronos Ledaloth

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2007

Italy

Spirits From Hell [SH]

E/P

Here the same. It's Impossible to load the page...

Curse You

Curse You

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2006

South Pole

The Magus Order

N/Mo

I'm getting very, very annoyed with the NCsoft Store. I know I had an account 2 years ago, but I can't seem to recover my information for it. However, when I try making a new account, it just keeps sending me in bloody circles.

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

dang, cant remember what my password was (its been 3 years since I was on their site...faction preorder fiasco)...so I get to the enter info to reset....and BAM connection lost.....been like that for hours now,
somehow I dont think I can complain about guru's slowness anymore

sph0nz

sph0nz

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

none.

W/

Haha oh wow.

I'm trying to recover my user info, and when it asks to type in the image code, by the time it loaded and I hit submit, the image has expired.

Apollo Smile

Apollo Smile

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2008

[LORE]

E/Mo

Just like the OP, I did get my extra pane. It timed out after putting in the FREESTORAGE code, but in-game the tab appeared.

Bekkr

Bekkr

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

Australia

[]

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by refer View Post
NCSoft store horribly slow
Uh, well yeah.

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kinetic Trilogy View Post
True, but the suggestion above is making me confused. I was trying to go thru the in-game store at first (Assuming that was what I needed to do) but found out you had to go to the website. Why the hell not just do it on the in-game store...
You can have multiple game accounts tied to one NCSoft account. It's just a way of getting an accurate number of actual players, rather than just going by the number of accounts. My guess is they want to know a solid figure of the percentage of PLAYERS buying their overpriced new junk, as opposed to just the number of Accounts which may be misleading.

Bluefeather

Bluefeather

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2005

Philippines

[PNOY]

W/R

took me 3 hours to get my free storage pane.

but the problem is my other game account (my two game accounts are under one plaync account) cannot get the free storage pane.

too bad. i dont want to see that "4th Year Anniversary" pane that i cannot use.

Curse You

Curse You

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2006

South Pole

The Magus Order

N/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluefeather View Post
took me 3 hours to get my free storage pane.

but the problem is my other game account (my two game accounts are under one plaync account) cannot get the free storage pane.

too bad. i dont want to see that "4th Year Anniversary" pane that i cannot use.
Yet another reason making us get the slot this way was a dumb idea.

They have a perfectly good in-game store that they seemed so very eager to shove in our faces a year ago (A.K.A. the BMP) and now suddenly they're shunning it like it's a leper they don't want anyone to notice. At least the store could handle traffic and is already linked to your account.

NuclearSlug

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2009

Irontoe's Lair

[JAGG]

R/A

Sadly, I don't think NCSoft anticipated this big of a load on their servers. I bet someone's gonna get chewed out over this

Keep plugging away everyone, you'll get it eventually!

subarucar

subarucar

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2006

New Zealand

None

Ill just wait till late night NZ time, nobody plays then, therefore nobody should be cramming up the NCsoft site and making it slow.

Curse You

Curse You

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2006

South Pole

The Magus Order

N/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by NuclearSlug View Post
Sadly, I don't think NCSoft anticipated this big of a load on their servers. I bet someone's gonna get chewed out over this

Keep plugging away everyone, you'll get it eventually!
I hate when websites fail to realize that when something comes out, a lot of people are going to want it and as a result will create very high amounts of server traffic. This same type of thing happens every year with online Boxing Day sales; for whatever reason, they forget about the previous year's traffic issues.

Eduhard

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2007

X Knock Out X [KO]

Me/

Invalid coupon code choo-choo coming....

QQ

Sir Baddock

Sir Baddock

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2007

Canada

Endemic Warfare

W/

Got it on my first try, must be because I'm using multiple tabs for the same thing.

Nanood

Nanood

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Supermans Crystal Palace

Legion Of The Dark Sun

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluefeather View Post
took me 3 hours to get my free storage pane.

but the problem is my other game account (my two game accounts are under one plaync account) cannot get the free storage pane.

too bad. i dont want to see that "4th Year Anniversary" pane that i cannot use.

Me too. I have 4 accounts linked in the one Master Account. Got the bonus for the first account I tried it with and then none of the other accounts are getting it no matter how many times I try. I am worried the bonus pane only has been set up to be one per PlayNC account rather than for each game account.


Edit. It does work you just have to make it through the whole process without errors!

Arieon Ito

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2007

[One]

Rt/

I really hate having to use this PlayNC master account nonsense. I'm perfectly satisfied with my GW account and the PlayNC account always just crashes on me or doesn't recognise the passwords I put in.

Heck, every single time I've had to use the PlayNC store, I've had to reset my password just to be able to get in. And this time, I can't remember my security questions and I have to contact support. It's not really a very effective way to get things done is it?

Stop The Storm

Stop The Storm

Keeping DoA Alive

Join Date: Jan 2007

England

Were In [DoA]

A/N

i just dont understand the mentality of this at all.

i mean, they know their servers simply cant handle the load of thousands of people all wanting their storage pain at once, 50% wont know their passwords anyway.

i just think whoevers idea this was to go through the plaync website, pat yourself on the back, brains, great fking idea.

Hugh Manatee

Hugh Manatee

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2007

Nice But Deadly[nice]

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by sph0nz View Post
Haha oh wow.

I'm trying to recover my user info, and when it asks to type in the image code, by the time it loaded and I hit submit, the image has expired.
^this, I can't even create a damn nscoft account, ehen I get to the part to fill out the security code by the time it loads, if the damned thing loads it's expired. Fail.....

Puddingbroodje

Puddingbroodje

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

The Netherlands

Lovers of Whiskey and Women [LWW]

E/Mo

I want to link my account to my ncsoft account:
Quote:
In order to use your serial code with an existing Guild Wars® account, you must link your Guild Wars® account to your NCsoft account.
I get this after i clicked on the link and select account button, do i enter my ncsoft account or my guild wars account?
When i enter my guild wars account i get:
Quote:
The specified account is already linked to another NCsoft account. Please contact Customer Support if you require additional help.
when i enter my ncsoft account i get:
Quote:
Your account name should be between 5 and 12 characters, containing only letters and numbers, and starting with a letter. No special characters are allowed.
what should i do?

Gamblor

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

This is so stupid.

Hermos

Hermos

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2007

Forever in Demand [FiD]

A/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh Manatee View Post
^this, I can't even create a damn nscoft account, ehen I get to the part to fill out the security code by the time it loads, if the damned thing loads it's expired. Fail.....
I know. I've been trying for hours. Load of bullcrud really.

Karuro

Karuro

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2008

The Netherlands, Europe

Mystic Spiral [MYST]

W/

Got it after an hour.
Next time if they pull something like this, I'll wait till night >.>

MrTickle

MrTickle

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

delete this account

N/

Still getting invalid promo code when i eventually got in. I've tried upper and lowercase makes no odds. Hopefully support can work it out.

BJuno

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

It keeps failing over and over again............

now i get this

"Too many failed login attempts, login temporarily disabled. Please try again in a few minutes."

This is such a BS