Don't Play on the First Day!

[Hellbore.1473]

Word to the wise, don't play on new release day and expect it to function as designed. I've been here long enough to know how this shit works... WAIT at least a day or two so that Arenanet can iron out dem bugs that should have been taken care of by the QA team. I know that sounds harsh, and I understand there are many variables and unknowns when dealing with a live environment. BUT, I been experiencing that same errors and bugs with every single release. Every. Single. One. Multiple threads can attest to these facts (I will not bother to link, I dont care enough say what you will). Again, if you do not want to deal with the frustration, just wait to play on any other day except release day. As of right now I've wasted more time logging and relogging then actually playing the episode.

[Tasida.4085]

Old school gamers know this lol. I've always waited a couple of days let everyone and everything kind of work itself out.

[artemis.6781]

Indeed. I've always waited a few days before attempting any new content.

[AliamRationem.5172]

I know but the first part in Amnoon was so good and involves two of my favorite characters! I so want to see the new map, new mount - everything! Alas, I have to go to work in an hour and the bugs are currently making the story unplayable.

 

Oh well! I suppose it's for the best, as I have the next two days off to play as much as I want! I just hope they have it all worked out by then!

[ugrakarma.9416]

luckly new content lauch is always on my work hours, so when i play is almost 6-10 hours after;

[MarcellinoAlighieri.7194]

No worries here. I hadn't touched any of the post-PoF LSes at all.

[Alga.6498]

Yeah… bad move indeed. I got stuck after the first part of Amnoon to talk to the Primeval Queens but got bugged after that. They don't talk to me whenever I walked to them, it seems now I can't even login to the game, says network error, :scream:

[Widowmaker Z.4802]

For the Primeval Queens part, I completely logged out of the game for a few minutes and logged back in and it started working.

[Fat Disgrace.4275]

> @"Widowmaker Z.4802" said:

> For the Primeval Queens part, I completely logged out of the game for a few minutes and logged back in and it started working.

 

that fine. had issues laoding the new instance though after and then kicked out after killing the first thing... now connections error non stop

[SunTzu.4513]

>I know but the first part in Amnoon was so good and involves two of my favorite characters!

 

Jeah feel the same! I regret that i played the first part of the story. Lord Faren is back, i want to move on but the dc party seems to keep going on.

[Widowmaker Z.4802]

> @"Fat Disgrace.4275" said:

> > @"Widowmaker Z.4802" said:

> > For the Primeval Queens part, I completely logged out of the game for a few minutes and logged back in and it started working.

>

> that fine. had issues laoding the new instance though after and then kicked out after killing the first thing... now connections error non stop

 

For that I completely logged out and then tried a few characters until I found one that would let me login, then I was able to log on to my character i was using for the story and it worked.,

[GrubySzymek.1362]

Let's be honest here. It didn't happen at this scale in the past. Even HoT release was smoother, not mentioning LW3 in general. Their release stability after PoF dropped drastically and I'm disappointed with their mediocrity.

[Thefarside.2178]

Same here Correction issues now at the portal entry/instance entry

[Just a flesh wound.3589]

Having the same problem. Bugged at Primeval Queens. Logged out to fix the ‘speak to Taimi bug’ then kicked out of the next instance and now can’t log in, says network errors.

[Kal Spiro.9745]

Yeah... I'm still going to. ANet's track record has been sufficiently good for me. Granted it's always a few hours before I get to play it after being released and they usually have patched most of the really bad bugs by then. And also removed the really good exploits.

[Balthazzarr.1349]

> @"Hellbore.1473" said:

> Word to the wise, don't play on new release day and expect it to function as designed. I've been here long enough to know how this kitten works... WAIT at least a day or two so that Arenanet can iron out dem bugs that should have been taken care of by the QA team. I know that sounds harsh, and I understand there are many variables and unknowns when dealing with a live environment. BUT, I been experiencing that same errors and bugs with every single release. Every. Single. One. Multiple threads can attest to these facts (I will not bother to link, I dont care enough say what you will). Again, if you do not want to deal with the frustration, just wait to play on any other day except release day. As of right now I've wasted more time logging and relogging then actually playing the episode.

 

so very true... right now I can't even get back into the game.. it keeps getting a network error. Will just wait until tonight after 2 or 3 patches have been applied... :P

[Balthazzarr.1349]

> @"Kheldorn.5123" said:

> Let's be honest here. It didn't happen at this scale in the past. Even HoT release was smoother, not mentioning LW3 in general. Their release stability after PoF dropped drastically and I'm disappointed with their mediocrity.

 

It's kind of mind boggling when you think of it. How can this have worked "well?" in their development/testing environment only to break so bad in production? Man, I'm a programmer.. if I did something like this in my company I would be in some sort of very bad trouble. Then again, Microsoft has been famous for beta testing their production releases on the general public and calling them solidly tested updates. *sigh*

[Just a flesh wound.3589]

I did a client repair. Might be a coincidence but i was able to log in after that.

[DeanBB.4268]

But if nobody plays on day one, how will any problems be found and fixed? :open_mouth:

 

You know...before I get home from work to play... :)

[Ashantara.8731]

> @"Hellbore.1473" said:

> [...] bugs that should have been taken care of by the QA team.

 

GW2 has a QA team?

 

> @"Hellbore.1473" said:

> As of right now I've wasted more time logging and relogging then actually playing the episode.

 

But when you know this from "years of experience", why are you wasting time trying? =) You will know it's been fixed when your client starts downloading an update. ;)

[Exatherion.3075]

Every game has this issue. We haven't seen a major Rollback in all the time GW2 is up. So it's safe to say that things are under control ^^

[Illconceived Was Na.9781]

Most of the time, I don't have much of a problem, except in the first 10 minutes, getting the actual download to start.

Word to the wise: your mileage will vary from mine and the OP's. Don't assume everything will work perfectly and don't assume it won't.

[Tajiseed.7831]

PoF release was a bit iffy - I think thousands of people repeatedly trying to launch instances from Lion's arch simultaneously probably didn't help.

 

I'll log in and get dailies, if it's a bit unstable will go and get an early night :)

[SakuraJD.4720]

"dont play on day one" it shouldnt be this way. this shouldnt be the general rule. this is why they moved to massive breaks between content, to stop shit like this. and yet here we are, worse bugs every time. i remember when they were doing new content every two weeks, i didnt see bugs half this bad. what changed huh?

[Wakthor Thorwak.2819]

this is the exact reason why i do the episode 1 week later even if i get behind