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Retribution X

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Check behind you again.

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14 Mar 2006 at 02:01 - 401

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joh

Checking her position at www.arena.net, it says:
Gaile Gray, Community Relations Manager, is a writer whose recent projects include the Diabloii.net and WarCraftiii.net websites, as well as producing content for several other websites, freelance publishing clients and game companies. In addition to writing for ArenaNet, Gaile coordinates our Alpha and Beta Tests and manages our websites, forums, and fan communications.

What I wonder more though is why some people seem to blame Gaile. Someone earlier in this thread said "Good going Gaile..." and more people complain directly at her. Does Community Relations Manager sound like Server Crasher to you?

No, But, how many people actually care?

Hell. you can all blame me. Just, it's not Gaile's ault, So quit acting like it is!

We don't know Who's fault it is, and by presumption, we screw ourselves deeper into the wood.

hideto

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Feb 2006

14 Mar 2006 at 02:02 - 402

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lint

I Can't Log On? Its been past 8:30 and it says something about cannat do operation.

Dude do u know what is PST, its only 6pm here PST. Its another 2 1/2 hours at least.

Stalker Haras

I Didn't Do It

Join Date: Jul 2005

Mo/

14 Mar 2006 at 02:03 - 403

I Admit, it was me.

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

14 Mar 2006 at 02:04 - 404

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lint

I Can't Log On? Its been past 8:30 and it says something about cannat do operation.

IS IT PACIFIC STANDARD TIME WHERE YOU ARE???

IT IS HERE AND THERE ARE 2.5 HOURS TO GO

Rayne Nightfyre

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Acolytes of Lyssa [AL]

Me/A

14 Mar 2006 at 02:04 - 405

Quote:

Originally Posted by awesome sauce

Well... at least GWG is profiting off it. Last I checked over 6000 people online. A new world record!!!!!!!!!! I dont think even some of the major websites like cnn.com get that many people.

Lol, how true. Our guild website also had an almost instant spike in activity as soon as no one could log in, lol. What would we do without GW...

Oreo

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2005

W/Mo

14 Mar 2006 at 02:04 - 406

I'm probably going to lose some items and a SF quest but so what. It was actually kinda fun.

The zone portals were broken so we got to wander around the enormous world map and still be in Dist 1 Ascalon City... WEEEEEEE!!!

Joh

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

Sweden

Lucid Dreams [LD]

14 Mar 2006 at 02:04 - 407

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lint

I Can't Log On? Its been past 8:30 and it says something about cannat do operation.

8:30 pm was PST. That's 4:30 am GMT.

Eclair

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2005

14 Mar 2006 at 02:08 - 408

Quote:

Originally Posted by Narutoscryed

In the end. The final word is the fact that if they had let this happen a second time. the economy would be destroyed. The first price reset made a very limited ammount of people rich because of the small(in comparison) numbers of people playing compared to today. In all it did not have that huge of an impact then.

If people were to be allowed to keep the items they had purchased today. then EVERYONE would be rolling around in fissure armor. and that would kill the game.

Hearing all the people complain about this price reset makes me smile. For one they are all lazy and have no clue what it could to to the game (For example ruin it). And they expect to get rich quick and get the best stuff. when people spent over a million dollars to get the fissure they wanted. I myself have saved 84 ecto and 44 shards. and if they had allowed the price reset. i would have stopped playing alltogether.

so in the end. It was not christmas they took away from you people crying out there. They saved your ass from the end of the world.

And i would personnally like to thank a-net for saving this great game

I seriously doubt making Fissure armor available to everyone would KILL the game, considering this game was about skill in the first place, not grind to get items.

However, it'd piss off a group of players who play Guild Wars for the grind for items(no idea why, when if they want to grind they should probably go play WoW or something) who would probably then quit to go play WoW.

The people that are left are probably going to be the Pvpers and the people who play PvE not for the items but for fun. However, that's not gonna help sales, so I guess you could say it will "ruin" the game.

Lint

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

In a house....

bleh

14 Mar 2006 at 02:08 - 409

Ohhhh, am!

Ohh boy, let me get the cofee and my reading glasses.

PLEASE, will my fame be gone? as it was the Second Time i won the HoH yesterday (my first was around 9 months ago). I have no idea when i won it,1, or 12.. i didnt get anythign from the chest thoe.

ravenwolf77

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2006

EVA

N/W

14 Mar 2006 at 02:08 - 410

if u dont know time zones then u can always check your computer time setting and find out what the diff is from ur time zone

Adaria

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Florida

Wayward Wanderers

E/Mo

14 Mar 2006 at 02:09 - 411

I know the servers will be back up about 11:30 PM Eastern time, Which is 4:30 GMT, etc etc.

I'm going to be glad to see this rollback thing happen, I feel bad for the people who were in the middle of a mission and completed it and now its going to be reset. But if they did it once, it can be done again.

I'm not always happy with the fact that things cost so much in GW, but this is all a part of the challenge of the game y'know? If gold was as easy to get ahold of as it is in Sacred [You can get about a million in a couple hours by just playing the game], It wouldn't be quite as challenging, or as rewarding tof inally get that piece of FoW armor or what not when you finally can afford it.

Anyway, this is my two cents on the whole deal. It would have been nice to mess around with while it was there, but I wouldn't have expected it to stay that way without a rollback.

Anyway, I'm a bit delayed due to my own internet problems and catching up on the news, gotta love failing internet providers...

~Adaria

Kevlar

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jan 2006

Barstool

Disciples of Ra

14 Mar 2006 at 02:11 - 412

Yeah, I'd like to thank everyone who tried to jump all over the economy and exacerbate the problem, thereby wasting the time of those who were actually doing quests and missions when this happened. ANet has done an excellent job containing this. Meanwhile, I hate to tell my guildie I'm going to have to help her re-cap that elite, and the build changes and attribute quests I did are for naught.

Then again, I'd rather have that than let the people who were trying to maliciously capitalize on this keep their ill-gotten gains. Good show, ANet - it's pretty amazing this is the first time I can think of real downtime in almost a year of availability..

Joh

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

Sweden

Lucid Dreams [LD]

14 Mar 2006 at 02:11 - 413

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oreo

I'm probably going to lose some items and a SF quest but so what. It was actually kinda fun.

The zone portals were broken so we got to wander around the enormous world map and still be in Dist 1 Ascalon City... WEEEEEEE!!!

If you left LA, you'd just pop back in at a random location.

Still there btw. Haven't gotten kicked yet. I gotta say, even with the rollback this was a success for me atleast. Never seen a district so empty and made quite a few friends there.

Just too bad the friends server is down, so I can't add them, lol. Wrote down their names in a notebook I had lying around. But I guess we can't get it all.

Zephro

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2005

14 Mar 2006 at 02:11 - 414

Haha, I was asleep when the whole crash happened... so yeah.

FireMountain

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

14 Mar 2006 at 02:12 - 415

So what if for an hour traders went wild! So what!

There is no game economy. Some can run players around to hard to get to places, some hang around and help lower level players through some missions.

Some farm and farm and farm then try to sell what they find.

I got my gold from ebay for the most part there are only a few with a lot of money those runners to Droks. The economy of this game is terrible as bad as I've ever seen so I don't see how these traders could have had a negative impact on it.

Am I missing something here?

mrbb

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

Mo/

14 Mar 2006 at 02:12 - 416

I'm not surprised that they are rolling back the game and I'm not upset. The fact is that it was a glitch and no one should be allowed to exploit it. Besides, it was fun to see everyone going crazy around the traders and see the rest of the city empty. It was also fun to imagine what I would have done with all the gold I would have gotten. Oh well, back to tendering the crops...

Shadowspawn X

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fellowship of Champions

R/E

14 Mar 2006 at 02:14 - 417

Quote:

Originally Posted by stickyballs

Really, no offense, but does ANYBODY read?

Of course people read and undstand it, just don't agree with it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by stickyballs

it CLEARLY says that the skill trader only has SKILLS THAT YOU HAVE ALREADY UNLOCKED.

What the heck does that add to the game? Just another way to totally disregard the storyline and rush a half-baked toon though the game IMO.

Back on topic:

Everyone has a bad day even Anet, so lets just move on and continue to enjoy this great game we all enjoy.

DJ Josh

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

14 Mar 2006 at 02:15 - 418

i hearby award gaile gray a medal of bravery for risking life and limb to enter this no-mans land,dodging bullet points and flame throwers.just to offer an appolagy*(it's late and my mind is drawing blanks)for something that most undoubtably was not her fault.so amen and goodnight all./zzzzzzz zzzzzzzz zzzzzzzz

Retribution X

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Check behind you again.

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14 Mar 2006 at 02:15 - 419

Ahh. The joys of GWless life.

It really sucks arse.

but, hell, i'd like to have been ingame.

guppy

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mo/Me

14 Mar 2006 at 02:16 - 420

Try not to cheat and play the game the way it was meant instead of buying money off of ebay, there is still an economy in the game :P If there were no economy (actually look up that word), you would know it ... but since you bought your money, you wouldn't know!

neoteo

Banned

Join Date: Jun 2005

Macau

www.exilesofdarksteel.com

E/

14 Mar 2006 at 02:17 - 421

ok this is where Currently Active Users: 4834 are w8ting for the server to get back , lol ... we should be sending positive energy to the anet programers that are having a nightmare working on the evil servers , we should not be rushing them ...

ANET GODS - take your time

leprekan

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

Posers and Wannabes [nubs]

W/E

14 Mar 2006 at 02:17 - 422

Quote:

Originally Posted by deathdela

Man this quote is really unfair cause the thing is gaile doesnt have to come on the forums and give you this sort of info yet she does and all you can do is find fault in it. Every game at some point suffers glitches and gw has been very good in the past with nothing this big happening and all you can talk about is poor support. What difference is a forum gonna make from an email it is still written down over the net so what you talking about.

Read what I replied to ... then see if it is unfair.

"Had we had earlier reports, we might have prevented the need for a reset, but by the time we learned of the situation, we were forced to do the roll-back.
"
Is what prompted me to reply. Again not flaming anyone but to complain about not getting prompt reports when the "support" system is autoreply to go post on a fansite ...

Phaern Majes

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2005

Anywhere but up

The Panserbjorne [ROAR]

R/Mo

14 Mar 2006 at 02:19 - 423

I'm just laughing at the fact that people thought they would gain from it all. Even if you bought 100 ectos at 250 each, it would still be worth around 250 tomorrow and the next day, and the next. Not like you're profitting there. Not like the materials were just going to magic back up to 7k after you bought a bunch. Way to think it through :P

Retribution X

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Check behind you again.

N/

14 Mar 2006 at 02:19 - 424

We love ya Gaile, in an ethical sort of way.

See ya IG

Ret X

Garreth MacLeod

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

14 Mar 2006 at 02:21 - 425

yslee had a decent analysis as to why ArenaNet couldn't just leave the game the way it was. The thread has since been closed but the analysis is good, IMHO

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...d.php?t=136304 is the thread

Adaria

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Florida

Wayward Wanderers

E/Mo

14 Mar 2006 at 02:22 - 426

[QUOTE=

Everyone has a bad day even Anet, so lets just move on and continue to enjoy this great game we all enjoy.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I had to give a 30 minute presentation today for my college class in which I forgot to breathe half the time, not a fun day at all. But, soon, everything will be back to normal, including all of our abilities to play Guild Wars again, I'll be more than happy to see that come around.

The best we can do now is hope that a problem like this doesn't happen again, because I seriously dislike having GW cut off, due to my faulty internet provider, or due to things like this. This has to be the first major problem I've seen Guild Wars have, which I have to say I am very impressed with. GW hasn't had to shut down for so long since the Beta Events before GW was released. Gotta admit, that's pretty impressive...

Saider maul

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

Baltimore, Maryland

14 Mar 2006 at 02:22 - 427

I am sorry but i have to say this.
I have had several threads deleted on the topic of server lag and issues.
I have even been banned for disgussing this topic.LOL.was a fun trip.

THIS CRASH PROVES WITHOUT A DOUBT ANET HAS A MAJOR SERVER ISSUE.

With all the threads up don't you think this crash could have been avoided with a little prior action to the server that the people made public information of?

This is my 2 cents. let me know your thoughts. please staff no hijacking.

stickyballs

Banned

Join Date: Feb 2006

American Servers

Sin Squad [SIN]

W/

14 Mar 2006 at 02:22 - 428

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shadowspawn X

What the heck does that add to the game? Just another way to totally disregard the storyline and rush a half-baked toon though the game IMO.

That is actually a pretty good point. But then again who doesn't disregard the storyline? Who wants to play the complete game over to get to the end? The drops in the beginning are hideous and doing missions over are tedious. The skill trader gives casual players a way to get skills that they already have instead of searching for some obscure outpost or not having your complete build until Ember Light Camp.

But whatever. You have a valid point and I see it.

googz

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

tehsmex

Mo/R

14 Mar 2006 at 02:23 - 429

First off, Gaile did NOTHING.

But I'm unclear on what I'm losing here, will I lose all my stuff obtained after 1pm?
Thats all Im clear on but will I lose levels / EXP?

Charrbane

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Canada

W/E

14 Mar 2006 at 02:25 - 430

Quote:

Originally Posted by neoteo

ok this is where Currently Active Users: 4834 are w8ting for the server to get back , lol ... we should be sending positive energy to the anet programers that are having a nightmare working on the evil servers , we should not be rushing them ...

ANET GODS - take your time

Amen. I'm just chillin and listening to some music. Roll er back Anet...... I wasn't on when the 'incident' happened and wouldn't care if I was to lose some mission or whatever. Its a game not the end of the world.

*walks away whistling*

Phaern Majes

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2005

Anywhere but up

The Panserbjorne [ROAR]

R/Mo

14 Mar 2006 at 02:25 - 431

Dunno but 2 hours 'til go time

Lagg

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

W/

14 Mar 2006 at 02:25 - 432

Anet made a good call. But what about the trader reset when the economies got linked?

Nothing was rolled back then.

boxterduke

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

Walking the ruins of Ascalon

DVDF

Me/

14 Mar 2006 at 02:27 - 433

Man Quake 4 sucks.
I had it installed since it came out and never played it because I do not want to waste any free time I have on any other game than Guild Wars.

Downloading The movies, Serious sam plus other demos to see whats out there.

Too bad that by the time GW is back online its time for me to go to bed.
What an end to a none perfect Monday.
We love ya Guild Wars.

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

14 Mar 2006 at 02:28 - 434

Quote:

Originally Posted by googz

First off, Gaile did NOTHING.

But I'm unclear on what I'm losing here, will I lose all my stuff obtained after 1pm?
Thats all Im clear on but will I lose levels / EXP?

everything after 1 did not happen.

awesome sauce

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

14 Mar 2006 at 02:28 - 435

www.guildwars.com:

Quote:

Due to extraordinarily high traffic, we have placed this page to provide you immediate access to current Network News. You may click through to visit the Guild Wars site at this link.

looks like GWG isnt the only one experiencing the spike of users. It would suck if that caused the website server to go down too...

Phaern Majes

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2005

Anywhere but up

The Panserbjorne [ROAR]

R/Mo

14 Mar 2006 at 02:28 - 436

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lagg

Anet made a good call. But what about the trader reset when the economies got linked?

Nothing was rolled back then.

That wasn't a massive change in prices. Well at least not a 8k to 250g drop. Plus everyone was effected equally by that. This doesn't effect everyone equally. Those that missed it would be out, and those of us who want our previous ectos to be worth what they are supposed to be worth would be out also.

volsungxiii

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

Chicago

W/

14 Mar 2006 at 02:30 - 437

I logged in about halfway through the bedlam. I was at War Camp and saw someone selling superior absorptions for 11k. I didn't know this whole deal with the reset was going on, and I actually went to this person and wanted to trade. He was trading with someone else, however. Then I saw someone mention the very low prices, and I headed to Forge.

Yes I was one that bought 10 superior absorptions and 100 shards. And I know it will be lost since the servers are getting rolled back. And that's fine, it was funny seeing all the chaos and people just making jokes and what not.

People trying to sell runes to those that didn't know about the glitch, thats sad. Those are the kind of scamming lowlives this reset will affect the most.
And someone mentioned earlier that this is truly the first server downtime GW has experienced in it's span. A previous game I played suffered crashes almost twice a week, and that was a subscription game. I give kudos to ANet for doing a great job in handling this. And although the thought of buying 60k runes at 250g was fun, this would of definitely destroyed the in-game economy.

My 2 cents

AeroLion

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

14 Mar 2006 at 02:32 - 438

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lagg

Anet made a good call. But what about the trader reset when the economies got linked?

Nothing was rolled back then.

I've already explained why. Traders then started off with a low price but increased the sell price of their wares quickly based on the demand, which was extensive since everyone thought they could get something for cheap. So, prices stabilized rather soon after the reset. Today, prices were frozen no matter what the demand was so the economy was unable to respond in any way.

lyra_song

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Oct 2005

R/Mo

14 Mar 2006 at 02:35 - 439

I blame Kago for all of this >.>;

Masta Killa Man

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2006

Shadows of Sorrow's Furnace

W/Mo

14 Mar 2006 at 02:37 - 440

It is fine with me that they are rolling back. If they haden't it would be completly unfair for the ppl with FoW armor that earned it the truthful way.Besides that, The game does almost have a real life economy it is very competitve it would have demolished the game if they had not rolled over.