Network maintenance on Thursday July 7 2011

St??phane Lo Presti

St??phane Lo Presti

ArenaNet

Join Date: Apr 2010

Seattle

On Thursday July 7 2011, we're going to conduct a network maintenance at 5 AM PDT (7 AM CDT / 8 AM EDT / 12 PM GMT). We expect the work to take up to 2 hours. Guild Wars, the Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 website and wikis could be affected by the maintenance, including possible disconnections and login errors from the game.
  • Start time: Thursday July 7 2011, 5:00 am PDT (7 AM CDT / 8 AM EDT / 12 PM GMT)
  • End time: Thursday July 7 2011, 7:00 am PDT (9 AM CDT / 10 AM EDT / 2 PM GMT)
  • Impact Duration: Two hours, intermittent

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we thank you for your patience and understanding.

Malla13

Malla13

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2009

Angeldustrial Bonsai Muffins [FFS]

N/Me

Thanks for the heads up.

Darcy

Darcy

Never Too Old

Join Date: Jul 2006

Rhode Island where there are no GW contests

Order of First

W/R

Great time selection; I'll be eating breakfast and getting my mom ready for the day. Now I just have to remember it's going to happen when I wake up tomorrow. Thanks for the notice, Stéphane.

aspi

aspi

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2010

eeew

N/Rt

Thanks for the notice, more time for working out

chuckles79

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2009

FILA

P/

Same day as WoC rollout, not a coincidence I feel.

Makes me optimistic if it's going to require full on network maintenance, or maybe they are just reconfiguring servers to handle the sudden influx of people starting WoC content.

Grunntar

Grunntar

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by ErrantVenture View Post
WoC prep?
Very, very unlikely. That would be content, and GW has a different content update model.

The most common reason to is work on your servers for hardware or OS (security) updates. Or install new servers...

Coast

Coast

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2006

Belgium

Whats Going On [sup]

Mo/

or they degrading again

jazilla

jazilla

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

Guernsey Milking Coalition[MiLk]

E/Me

WoCca WoCca WoCca, or my impression of Pac-Man if he were a GW fan.

Kc Quipor Ultra

Kc Quipor Ultra

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2009

Belgium

TRL

E/Me

Well WoC would be great for the weekend :P

Lord Dagon

Lord Dagon

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2009

Inside the Oblivion Gate

The Imperial Guards of Istan[TIGE]

E/Me

could be upgrading the server for all the new things its going to have to do for WoC (like fixing that one bridge in a quest and i remember some interview thing about how your actions would impact the landscape by like removing afflicted from the landscape and things like that)

Xsiriss

Xsiriss

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2008

WoC Prep? AHAH. Nice one. Incase you guys forgot anets 'content update model' is about as coherent as a meth addict.

Venganza

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2011

Fire

Thank you for the heads-up, very nice to be advised before the fact.

Keep up the good work.

Ximvotn

Banned

Join Date: Jun 2011

Quote:
Originally Posted by jazilla View Post
WoCca WoCca WoCca, or my impression of Pac-Man if he were a GW fan.
Not even Pac-Man would be up this early even if he lived on the east coast with me.

mosquito25

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Sep 2007

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ximvotn View Post
Not even Pac-Man would be up this early even if he lived on the east coast with me.
I, as a froggie, will be up before 6 UTC (8am, french time)

And I'll not be alone, there's a lot of west european players

I'll search for PacMan in game

chuckles79

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2009

FILA

P/

On wiki it claims it will be released before July 9th, which is Saturday.
Tomorrow would be a great day to make the preliminary NPCs appear and such, to prevent having too much dump in one day.

Or they could troll us (intentionally or not) and dump it at 11:59pm PDT on Friday.

AmyLynn

AmyLynn

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2011

Lion's Arch

W/

At least they picked the time of day (am) that has less traffic of people playing the game, if I am reading the message correctly.

Lishy

Lishy

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

I hope they give us the costumes as soon as possible, preferably after maintenance

MagnumShadow

MagnumShadow

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2010

Far Shiverpeaks

Friday is the best day for WoC imo.

Arato

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2010

Quote:
Originally Posted by Grunntar View Post
Very, very unlikely. That would be content, and GW has a different content update model.

The most common reason to is work on your servers for hardware or OS (security) updates. Or install new servers...
Though it seems likely that they are doing the maintenance to make sure that the servers are all up and running smoothly for WoC which should be coming in the next few days rumor has it on wiki..

It sounds like a pretty decent sized update, so, seems logical they'd want everything running at its best right?

Tanith

Tanith

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2005

Guardians of the Vault [GotV]

Me/E

Well, the game seems to be up, at least for the moment...I must have logged in during one of those "intermittent" phases...

VAge Japie

VAge Japie

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2009

IGN: Waar Kijk Je Naar

Game has been up the whole time for me...

Rob Roy The Divine

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2007

Weegieville

No Goats No Glory [BAAA]

W/

getting code 15's now and again, but nothing spectacular...