Planned Outage - August 11, 2010

@TheRanger: No, I can still log in and run around.

For anyone interested, I put the IP of HA ID3 (seems to be fairly new because it's not 216.xxx) into an IP locator and it churned out that it was located in Austin, Texas which I think is the same as the old location so they either haven't started or are probably moving across the street.

^my sentiments exactly.

So what will happen at the givin time? Will there be a massive 007 when the plug is pulled or will there be a warning not to do anything big just like the "New build of guildwars" notification in the chat? Cus it will suck if you just opend 100+ z-keys and got disconnected before picking them up because you were unaware of the moving (like for instant your first day playing in some time now with the in game message gone)

If you don't read your login messages and get caught in a disconnect, I don't think you can blame ArenaNet. This is the first time they have done something like this, but I don't see what the big deal is. It doesn't matter what the reason is for the move, it's going to happen, so live with it.

@pinkeyflower - the OP was to inform you it is happening tomorrow, not today as originally planned.

A warning is just a bit of service to keep there service and quality high.

If you don't completly readed my post you probaly missed the part were I sayed that the login message is gone and not everyone that plays everyday has seen that message thats been there for only a short time.

Think before post

I expect alot more people to be unable to play Guild Wars after these server changes.

Since I live in Belgium, I got pretty lucky since the intire western europe (germany, france, belgium, holland) area always got reasonably quality servers. However, for some portuguese, spanish or pretty much every non-western europe/north american country/state the quality was already reasonably doubtable.

I highly suspect alot of people to have even more connection issues after the move-over, cuz let's face it people, Anet is not going to invest into better servers. If anything, they'll try and go as cheap as possible, whilst trying to preserve as much quality as possible.

But with Guild Wars 2 comming closer and closer, and GW1 being next to dead, they really aren't going to put quality over price.

The problem is, now there's no more a login message for that. I hope they put it back, for the people who don't read websites.

XD

I was lagging and dcing bad the other day.

Anyway, yeah, I logged in earlier this morn and saw Aug 10 still there. Was like oh, they're done! *sigh*

Still on, but LA is pretty empty.

This is what I think. Kudos to all the optimists out there who are anticipating higher ping and more reliable connections, but it's all about the money, and that would probably be a net loss for ANet. I bet they're gonna downgrade us and count on the GW2 hype to drown out complaints. Don't you think they would have added a blurb like "to improve your service" to the announcement if it was otherwise? Hope I'm wrong though .

IF they would be UPGRADING the servers to something faster, they would announced it hugely, letting everyone know what's going on. Since they have not done this, the only logical conclusion is that they are DOWNGRADING the servers. Expect more lag, more dc's and more rubber banding.

I am pretty sure they aren't putting GW onto older servers lol. You would be hard pressed to see that happening. If anything, things get less expensive over time. For example, think about TV's of 5+ years ago and TV's now. There weren't "budget" flat panel TV's when GW1 came out. Heck, there weren't budget flat panel LCD monitors. ANET isn't gonna throw their game onto some crappy server bay before GW2 comes out. Give them some credit.

That's not a logical conclusion at all. They never said anything about replacing any servers.

They said:
A data center is a physical location. As in, go to old data center, put the server[s] in a truck, drive to new data center, hook up servers.

There are lots of reasons one might do this: Changing bandwidth providers for myriad reasons; keeping bandwidth providers but changing to a data center with more "reasonable" (read: cheaper) co-lo fees; or even just a pissing contest between Anet management and Data Center management.

I'm not one to shy against calling them out on boneheaded decisions, but seriously... Switch to decaf, Chicken Little.

gotta disagree RPG's like Fallout 3,Oblivion, and more those 2 just came time mind are acctually really aswome. And wtf u dont have to lvl grind in those games. You can raise your lvl as you want but enemies jsut get better w/ you so theres no real point to haveing to lvl, its just a nice option.

and on topic: yes i think they are gonna downgrade, but im an optimist so im hoping for maybe some super-fantantasic awsome new stuff, and that this "server update" is only a hoax adn we are getting some cool new stuff to play w/ in GW(like chaos armor(really really want that o.0) or amybe some new missions). but yea.. then again it mihgt just be a regular rutine move da server from point A to point B

Yo ANet, login announcement is still MIA. It'd be nice to alert the ppl who don't surf forums or read your network news page.

yes it would be nice if the log in announcement were still there....or perhaps they could have the message in the chat box like the (now very old) big bot ban message....so that people would know tomorrow there is an outage.

They've all misread the thread title, DD - they thought it said "Planned outrage August 11".

oh darn. i was 20 minutes into a long-winded vitriol fueled diatribe. thanks for setting me straight

OOPS
Thats what i read!

adding the word "outage" to my dictionary now...

Older servers? Probably not. But smaller ones? Probably yes.