GW2 blues

I am not liking the guild invite issues GW2 is having, of all the bugs and issues i've seen (which aren't very many) this is the worst. I miss chatting with everyone and the events. I can't normally use raidcall or vent either.

Hopefully everything get straightened out soon, I'll be lurking around until then.

/cry

Anet seem to pretty good at fixing stuff and patching the game. I think they will probably get it fixed within a week. Although a week at game launch and a bug of this magnitude might really bother members of mega guild like Gaiscioch.

Replicant that episode with having to call in guildies to resolve a having-too-much-on-your-hand situation sounds hilarious :D. ANet seems to have well thought through a lot of MMO features. Things like the overflow world vs traditional queue is like day and night, they should really patent it if they are the first to do that. No MMOer will accept queue once they played with overflow world technology... But their testing might not be rigorous enough. The saving grace is their patching technology is again top notch. That help resolve bad bugs quickly.

They wonderfully communicate, too, but of course the primary and fastest way is their facebook and twitter. Lots of us are tracking these and they are really working on things. Trading Post - they had a successful test with random invites of about 15% of the population allowed in. If I read this right, it should be open to everyone now. I just have to log in yet today to prove that the cute little Quaggan is not still in snooze mode. ;) In game mail had an issue and though they fixed it, they see a potential for in-game mail to possibly be linked with the email phishing. Didn't really understand this, but they are taking NO chances even with a pin hole possibility in this area. The group and guild issues actually are intermittent and there may be quite a few large guilds, but on average there are not many that tried to push the envelop like we did in the first hours of head start. So look at the guild issue as another way Gaiscioch helped break a game so the developers find an issue. We came REALLY close to the number in beta at which Gaiscioch got broke at. So we almost had a chance to see if it broke in beta, but we were within 10 or so short! Go figure. ;) Anyway, intermittent problems are way harder to diagnose and they were the trouble tickets I HATED because you would spend HOURS trying to find some wonky and usually simple thing. Example - customer always losing connection at 10am - they made new pot of coffee at this time and the network and coffee pot were sharing a power strip and it would have brown out issues. So sometimes it gets strange. ;) So be patient - if you have a "bug" in the game. Do report it with as much detail as you can think of. They DO read these things and do their best to keep us in the loop with their chosen methods of communication.

I assumed this would be fixed at launch. Really, not having a working guild or trade system is pretty horrible. My biggest problem is that their communication with us the last 5 days has been non-existant. I don't doubt their are some good people there, but they're handling this poorly.

» Edited on: 2012-08-30 06:36:55

After reading the Reddit post found here, it appears that they had to take down the marketplace to eliminate the hacking/exploits. I'm pretty sure that no one was doing this on a large scale during the beta weekends, so Anet probably just found out about it. I'm happy that they took the necessary steps to solve the problem -- even though it'll get them bad press for having an issue at launch. Also, this was added to the Anet Reddit post since last night: "Edit: The fact that in-game mail is disabled means that it's currently impossible for account hackers to loot stolen accounts, so we're going to leave it disabled for just a little while longer, while we work to ramp up email authentication."

» Edited on: 2012-08-30 06:55:48

Why reddit? Why can't they put that on their official site or in the launcher?

I like Anet way of handling things, straight to the point, no beating around the bush, do whatever necessary to keep the game a fun and fair environment. In short term, people will cringe at all the issues, but in the long term, as long as they address the issues, they will earn trust.