Guild Wars 2 - Another Fail?

[Daniel McKenzie]

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The most anticipated MMORPG of 2012 "Guild Wars 2" just launched, but problems pop-up one after another. Is it really so hard to let out normal, finished product? How many years has been since we saw the normal launch of any game without any fails at the start? ... I can't even remember...


Recently all companies have the same tendency to let out raw products on the market and "Guild Wars 2" not exception. Just at the start they had big problems with login server, servers were so full that they had to put digital sales on a hold. One of the most serious issues that players have experienced in "Guild Wars 2" is group splitting. The game uses overflow servers to reduce the load on zones, but the major drawback was that these overflow servers can make sticking with your group problematic.

It's been only a week since the game started, but there are already 3000 permanent banned players and 1000 for 72 hours. What people used wasn't even a "bug", it was a banal typographical error of an unfortunate developer (price for the item was "21" instead of "21000"). So whose fault it was? Who wasn't able to test the game normally and eliminate this sort of small problems.

A few hours back players began experiencing a disturbing bug in the trading post. When players go to buy an item, the game continues to withdraw money from your pocket untill you have nothing left to give or until you cancel the buy order. On top of this you do not receive the item nor does it show up on what you have paid for.

Those attempting to sell an item will also find that while the item may sell, the seller will not receive the amount paid. The problem was fixed within a few hours and all players recovered their money and items, but still why does it break in the first place? Lack of testing?

How many more problems people should face before this game will be ready and why do we need to pay for a raw product? What will be if iPhone 5 will come out unfinished and companies developers will say - No worries, next month we will let out few upgrades so if you can't call or send texts or browse the internet, it is OK!!

Still it's not so bad as I wrote, people keep playing "Guild Wars 2" and ArenaNet solved most of the problem. Nothing will change and people still will buy this game because it's B2P (buy to play), but how long ArenaNet can keep it up the time will show.

[Abhorsen]

i dont think any mmorpg ever released had a normal start :P that aside, those do sound like some serious bugs im glad i didnt had any of them yet. only bug i had so far was a invisable wall inside some cave near the human starting area which later seemed to be part of a event where rocks were suposed to be blocking the cave

[Asiankid0]

the amount of grammar and spelling errors in that article is making my eyes bleed...

[Orpheus]

the amount of grammar and spelling errors in that article is making my eyes bleed...

But who's fault it was?!

[poeticas]

Who wrote this is FAIL ! ... because well you know the game is already 10 years out ... so its no problem ... Dude come on ... they are solving all problems i am 71 lvl yes i got hacked and even if i dont get my acc back i will buy it again and again and again just to play!

[Daniel McKenzie]

I really don't think anyone was being serious when making this article. GW2 had by far the best release I've seen in years. With that said, the game was released with the assumption that there were no issues. We heavily tested the game in beta only to find out days after early release that we could exploit a load of different parts in the game. Somehow no one found these exploits until then. That's why ArenaNet had to slowly patch everything. For the most part, they would take a section down while we could still play. They basically worked on things while we were still on and then threw out patches one after another that sure, kicked us out to update, but only took a few minutes to patch and then we were right back in. Compared to what exactly? SWTOR 7 hour down times every day? As for the servers being full, no shit. The capacity raises once low population servers grow. This is to ensure that there is not a dozen servers with 10 people and one with over 9000 like you find in other games. At least you could log into the game with the option of going to a low pop server at launch but being able to move since server transfers have been free. Again, compared to what? D3 where you could even get into the game? But hey, to add icing on the cake, you ask how long they can keep it up. Well last time I checked, WoW has been out 7 years and is still having issues. Not forgetting that WoW itself had a horrible launch. All I know is that ArenaNet is fixing GW2 at an amazing pace and doing so while allowing us to continue playing while they work. I can still play the game and I'm having a blast doing just that. Sure, trading post being down was annoying... But with that said, at least we have one. GW1 decided to keep it out even when games at the time all had forms of auction houses. Of course in GW2, it's also game wide, server to server. I've yet to see a game manage that. Now let me get back to playing... >_>

The only wise man here. No one was serious about this article. It had been written to see people reactions and promote our small website.

Sorry if we offended you and Happy days.

PS Guild Wars 2 is the best game at the moment, but ArcheAge will be better :P

[DneL]

dude YOU HAZ an IMac .... those headphones cost friggin 300 EURO !!!!

Yes sirrr, but im currently building a Gaming PC & i won those at my job [AT&T]

[frannecice_311]

This thread should be in the You laugheded, You losed.