Guild Wars 2 status update

Current status: Live - Edited by Neoyoshi - 11:02 pm EST, Wednesday 29th 2012

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Wednesday, August 29
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This is the current status of the most important issues we're tracking with Guild Wars 2 live service.

Account security - We're seeing an uptick in reports of account theft and attempted account theft. We believe hackers are using databases of email addresses and passwords stolen from other games and web sites, and pre-existing trojan horses, to search for matching Guild Wars 2 accounts which they attempt to compromise. To prevent this, we have temporarily disabled the "reset password" feature, and we're working to bring email authentication online. To protect yourself, please ensure that you use a unique password for Guild Wars 2 that you don't use for any other game, email account, forum or web account.

Email authentication - Email authentication is a feature that notifies you if someone tries to log into your account from a location you've never logged in from before. Thus, even if someone guesses your game password, he can't log in unless he also guesses your email account password. You can make email authentication even more secure by using an email provider that supports two-factor authentication, such as Google or Yahoo, and taking advantage of that. We're currently preparing email authentication and intend to deploy it in a phased rollout, starting on Thursday, August 30.

Parties, guilds, etc. - Parties, guilds, and other social features are periodically failing. This causes issues such as party members not appearing on the map, and party members not staying in the same overflow servers as they travel between maps. This happens particularly during times of peak usage. We're working to fix related problems and mitigate this issue with each subsequent update.

Worlds - Many worlds are filling up. We're keeping the number of worlds constrained so that worlds stay well populated even after the initial surge of high concurrency. However, we will add worlds as necessary. As of Wednesday, August 30, all German language worlds are full and all French language worlds are at high usage, so we're adding two new German language worlds and one new French language world.

Overflow worlds - During this initial surge of high concurrency, and especially while many characters are low-level and thus playing in the same starting areas, it's common for players to be directed to overflow maps. If you want to play with a friend, but you’re not on the same overflow map, you can form a party together, then right-click on your friend's portrait in the party list and click "join". Note that this functionality is sometimes intermittently unavailable due to the "parties, guilds, etc." issues noted above.

Trading Post - We're working to bring the Trading Post back online. To help test, we've temporarily made it available to a random 15% of players, while we work to resolve remaining capacity constraints that will allow us to open it to everyone.

In-game mail - We detected a potential abuse of the in-game mail system and have temporarily disabled in-game mail to prevent any such abuse. We'll reenable it soon, hopefully in tonight's update.

Botting - We'll start substantial banning of bots on Wednesday, August 29. Since we're currently seeing widespread casual, unsophisticated botting, we will start with 72-hour bans for first offenses. In the coming days, as we address the casual botting problem, we plan to switch to our normal policy of permanently banning anyone who runs a bot.

Forums - Our most important priority at the moment is to ensure that the game runs stably and flawlessly. So as to not create additional demand on our infrastructure and on our programming team, we made the decision not to open the forums until the initial mass influx of players has calmed down a bit.

Next software updates - The next update of the game server and back-end server software will take place tonight at midnight Seattle time. The game may be unavailable for approximately 20-60 minutes while we perform the update. We expect this update to have fixes for email authentication and in-game mail. Our continued work on the Trading Post is not tied to game updates, so we will continue to test Trading Post updates throughout the day.

Client download link: http://cloudfront.guildwars2.com/client/Gw2.exe

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Pre-purchase going live 10 April Seattle time

The wait is over! Pre-Purchase Guild Wars 2 Today!

You can now secure your Guild Wars 2 Collector's Edition, Digital Deluxe, or Digital Edition copy by pre-purchasing the game at buy.guildwars2.com or at select retailers.
Pre-purchasing Guild Wars 2 gives you guaranteed entry into beta weekend events, three-day headstart access to the final game, and the Hero's Band in-game item.
Learn more right here!

ahuhuhu :3

Shhh, don't tell :D

Good news!First Beta Weekend Event will be from April 27-29. We will let you know once the client is ready for download.

Countdown clock to 1st CB event, added to their main website
http://www.guildwars2.com/en/

http://www.arena.net/blog/the-beta-weekend-event-is-coming


No new races :( new town area and hands on

•This is a public event, which means that you’re not bound by a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). So go ahead, feel free to take screenshots, shoot video, blog, tweet, write, or compose a rock opera to share your Guild Wars 2 experience with the world.

yay no NDA, looking forward to getting some screenshots i can actually use heh

Arena Net has started to send out emails with instructions for where/how to download the Beta client

E-mails are being sent out in waves, so it could take a bit of time before yours arrives

Download link: http://cloudfront.guildwars2.com/client/Gw2.exe

Server choice for the 1st BWE: "Darkhaven" (NA)

1st BWE ended

GW2 Facebook

We’ll be conducting a stress test on Monday May 14 from 11 AM to 6:00 PM PDT (-7 GMT).

This special test event is open only to Pre-Purchase customers who have registered their accounts.
With your help, we can conduct important tests and address some of the issues we identified during our first Beta Weekend Event.
During this event, all you need to do is play normally with a new or existing character on your Beta account using the same game client.
Please note that since this is a stress test of our servers, you may experience some in-game performance issues.
If you’ve pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 and wish to participate in the stress test, we recommend that you register the account and download the game client.

Pre-Purchase customers, log in to the Beta Forums for more information and/or to download the Beta client if needed.

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/stress/news/Getting-Started/169235

Having issues logging in? Contact Support: https://support.guildwars2.com/

when do game start?i should buy game soon i think heh

still no actual release date. but i recommend buying it now. to atleaset try 1 beta before hand, and get the pre purchase perks.

Release cant be far away, I personally think it will be late june/ early july.

can any of you btw do a life stream with our network wil be great so many pll might no us ^^
i look alot ad life stream was very cool about GW2 ^^

hmm my computer isn't good enough to do a live stream, but if anyone is interested i suggest creating a twitch.tv account and downloading xsplit. having a beefy comp and 2 screens is ideal for live streaming, so its not a cheap setup, but if you have that setup already then you are good to go anyway. a good headset is a plus, but not a requirement.

i have a nice comp not great but i gone play GW2 when its full release
maby snow ore shu am sure both have a beter comp then i have

and i no there voices in a orther game some time back ^^

i also no 1 here have a ubber set up with 3 screens 2 keyboards and so on dunno who he was but am sure he have a hell of a comp also XD

but it wil be great if some1 ore a groep do it ^^

U talking about Vami's set-up ^_^

My comp should handle live stream np, but I lack a 2nd screen right now and experience with live streaming

I am interested in looking into it but not on a short note, more like in a month or so

right vami thx snow ^^
you need 2 screen right so in terms 2 grapic cards also in your comp ??

if so then i have a problem my ASUS 6850 HD is rely big and cant put any orther card close to it lol

ore there must be a orther way XD
but then again snow it wil be great if you do it

maby with some orther pll and a female ofcourse ^^
saw it some time back 4 players did live stream of GW2 was very nice

they are also from a network ore so tell the pll how you can join and so on very cool XD