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As of midnight EST.

They're melting.

Holy rubber banding bat man. The charr zone on my server is unplyabale right now. Oddly enough my buddy is playing a human and he's reporting zero issues.

So, all of your characters have to be on the same home server?

it's laggy as hell on my server's azura area.

Like 45 second lag and unplayable

The servers are "up"   :oh_i_see:

I got past the starter area after 5 tries. Actual lowbie zone is even less playable.

Yah, mine went to shit as well.  Asura, Jade Quarry (which is already Full). 

Can't even log back in.

I got to make my characters but yeah the lag made it unplayable.

Damn countdown clock still says 2 hours....

Those stress tests really paid off :awesome_for_real:

Getting up at 5AM has it's upside, Gandara is lag free so far!

Indeed, haven't noticed any lag so far in Asura starting area.

JQ is wobbling back and forth between Full and High pop.

Has anyone managed to claim their HoM items? I'm not showing any HoM achievements and when I go there (after getting the stone from LA) Kimmes won't give me anything. Lots of people in general chat saying the same thing, just wondering if it's global?

Maguuma is handling it just fine.

I'll be playing when I wake up.

Have their login server melted, can't even get the launcher to log me in.  :why_so_serious:

edit: Managed to log in after about  an hour. Gates of Madness is full.  :uhrr:

With half the servers full at 2am CST I'm thinking using the free server transfers to play with friends is going to be useless.

Those guys need to go to sleep sometimes.  :awesome_for_real:

Are free server transfers actually avaible ? I need to know that before I pick some other podunk server.

I can't login either. Keeps giving me the connection error.

Yeah, 2:45 ish CST, and 14 of the 21 US servers are now flagged as full.  You'd think they'd know what their incoming player counts were.  Only 3 are low pop, and I doubt that's going to last.

They really should have instanced instead of this overflow server bs.  It is a pain to group with anyone and wind up in the same area.

Yea considering it's technically an instance anyways why bother with this overflow nonsense?  Just label every instance and let people join each other.

The crush will die down after a couple days, off the ledge everyone.  :-P

Just played from 2am EST til now with no lag or issues

I had some initial bad lag, then it cleared up, other than the market working wonkily.

Seems like the EU is having a bit of a rough start. Login servers were having issues all morning and now after taking a break I can't get back into the game at all. And our HoM rewards aren't working. Some people got around it by transferring to a US server, getting the rewards and then transferring back.

Trying to login for the past 20 minutes and the login servers seem fubar. When I try to login into the website itself, I get a 502 error. Oh well, no character creation before I have to head out this morning.

Yeah, servers went tits up just after 6 CST. I was in game, and suddenly got a popup saying that my password was incorrect. It dumped me to desktop, and I haven't been able to log in since.

Same. Though the support link does mention their login server are under heavy load... yeah, of course they are. Oddly enough, logging onto the website, if I back button out of the 502 it goes to the German login page.  :awesome_for_real:

Played for two hours and got kicked at 7:15 EST.  No luck getting back on so far.

Got in without a hitch at 6 am, made character on right server, went to sleep... got up now, no chance of getting in

After an hour the game because pretty lag free for me last night.  Of course I wake up and :(


Pro-tip: if you group up with someone (add them to your party) right click their name and click "join in".  That should bring you to their instance (didn't work last night with the crazy lag, but that's how it's supposed to work at least).

Apparently they're running their support service through Twitter...  :why_so_serious:
Some of the more relevant ones.

I figured this was appropriate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=katzz57tmm4

So, I'm sitting at work and thought I'd try to login to my account from the home page to see if they're up yet. First time, the formatting got fubared, second time was English, but while the formatting was better it was still messed up, the third time the formatting was correct but in French, the next time it was correct and in Spanish. I'm just typing my login/password and hitting enter. It's hilarious.

Well, it's disappointing but not unexpected. Gives me time to do chores and go for my Domestic Bliss Achievements.  :oh_i_see:

(http://i46.tinypic.com/fbjnmv.png)

At my last high  school reunion the joke was that the unofficial theme was "Wait let me get my glasses." I think the theme for the launch will end up being "Connection lost, retrying."

8:50 am est, not working.

Really disappointing . Stress tests were pretty smooth without any major downtime (which was a big factor for my preorder), but now the release is just a trainwreck with first  WvWvW being unplayable (due to scoring bugs) and now servers being down.

What were the stress tests for then? Makes me thing it was all more for marketing purposes  than for actual testing

I imagine the opening day crush is significantly heavier than the stress tests were.

Funny how the most detailed and well though out testing still manages to miss something that turns out to be a crippling issue when you go live. 

So, it turns out launching an MMO is hard. Who would've thunk it. :awesome_for_real:

I sent my pregnant wife out of town so I could play!  Fuck these losers.  :grin:

Took a nap after trying to get on around 7am EST. Poked the launcher and I immediately get a connection error without ever seeing a login password screen.  :uhrr: :awesome_for_real:

Yeah. Same here, thats one way to reduce load on the login servers. Do you get error messages in different languages as well ?  :grin:

It's trying to download a small patch that was released 2 hours or so ago, why it doesn't go straight to login anymore. Of course so is everyone elses clients with the obvious consequenses... 1 file left and its running at 1kb/s. :sighs:

Good time to get all the home chores done and see if there's less of a load when done.

And what the heck is this validate your account thing it keeps giving me?

Sucks.  At least I got the names I wanted last night.

Patch server is hammered to hell.  Wish they would have set up a torrent network for these patches.

Can't even get the launcher to eh, launch.

Yea, dies for me at Downloading 1k (0kb/sec).

Curious if they had considered at one point going live in waves, some sort of way to only allow certain parts of the world go live first, or by IP range or something. Sucks this isn't a weekday for them, though I suppose they already came to terms with weekend work.

No ETA, posted 25 mins ago.

Patched up and logged in.

I played for about 6 hours last night right when the servers came up and only had one issue where Iwas stuck in the Norn city until I logged out to char select.

Haven't tried today though.

Annoyed that guild names are unique, but you can be tagged the same as another guild on your same server.

Email validation isn't working. Whooooop.

For those wondering.

I'm in too, the email validation doesn't seem to be needed.

After the patch finally finished up logged in  as well without any problems, back to exploring the Grove.  :heart:

After I download these 22,675 files I might actually get to make a character.

I am sure this has been asked and answered before, but I keep getting the "server full" for the one I want to play with my friends on. What am I supposed to do according to Arenanet, never play with them since the decision is permanent, or start playing wherever and then EVENTUALLY AT SOME POINT pay them to change server?

You should be able to just roll on another server for the time being and then use the free transfer once the server you originally wanted drops from full status. I think that's how it works anyway, haven't run into the problem yet.

For some reason one of the chars i made did not get the hall of monuments teleport thingie.

Not getting passed log-in. "Connection failed" sometimes and "check your firewall/security settings" other times. Bleh. Guess I need to move desks and rout out cabinet doors this morning after all. :P

I'm in. And yea, email authentication still not working (same error schild posted). Spent 20 minutes just looking at the damned character creator. Love that I came to this one blind. Ended up going Human Elementalist after all, from the streets, Bathlazar (sp?) as my god, and Fire as my head jewl thingy. Pretty cool opening sequence, proving yet again you don't need Blizzard (nor even Blur or Plastic Wax) CGI imagery to be an interesting storyteller.

I'll look ya'all up tonight.

Game has been running lag free since it came up, on my server at least.

Email auth worked for me last night, the first email errored out but a second one showed up with a valid link. My HoM however is empty even though my accounts are linked ><

Otherwise, Jade Quarry was smooth for the hour or so I just played.

Gates of Madness was marked "High" but it was all pretty smooth for me in the Human starting area. That of course was about 8 hours before the east/west coast prime times really start to nail it :-)

Servers are dropping their full status left and right atm, maybe because of the login issues. And server transfers are quick and painless (for now).

Plus even if you're on another server you can guest on your friends servers at any time to play with them. Guilds and parties are cross server as well - the only thing it affects is the WversusW gameplay.

Transferred quick and easy to Gates of Madness. I have to turn off my firewalls for some reason. But I play for 30-40 minutes and my laptop switches off! 

Yea I thought this wasn't in but I was able to join in on a friend on another server.

Yet another game that needs a server queue.   If the server is full just let me get in line rather than spam you with refresh requests.

I'm not sure about starting on another server since I can't even get into account management at the moment.  Hopefully Jade Quarry settles down a bit at some point today so I can at least make a character.

So glad I'm playing the Reaper KS today instead of this :)

Haven't had an issue logging in at all, personally.  :awesome_for_real:

Heat issue?

My main issue is this horrid input server lag, which makes playing a thief a tad difficult, also; some of these events are too overcrowded to be interesting, it devolves into mindless WoW raid like gameplay.

I've been logging in and out all day with zero issues other than the guild I created works for everyone but me.

In finally. Wish there was a server pop refresh button.

It may be.  Did some cleaning and I'm staying on. 

Cool. Yea, even with liquid cooling, my CPU is still on my floor so collects lots of dust. I use my air compressor on it weekly, and only after running into your issue did I realize I was forgetting the video card fan :-)

I also use RealTemp, mostly for the logging.

The beta tests were so nice. Logging in to a message telling me to validate my e-mail that doesn't work, a message warning I need to update my graphics drivers to something apparently not actually out yet and a lot more buggy play experience reminds me again that last minute changes are the best way to shoot yourself in the foot.

Yea I thought it was interesting they'd recommend the beta drivers. I didn't go that route, and have had no problems at all with the graphics at close to max settings. Later I'll try the actual max ones and see if there's any problems. I'll take beta games any day. But beta drivers are in the same no-go category as beta OSes for me.

Perfectly understandable, but the post below explains why.  Essentially, the beta drivers have upwards of 15% improvement over the standard release drivers.  

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/bill-freist-talks-optimization-and-performance/

Edit:  Nvidia beta drivers have never given me problems in the past, personally.  This one seems stable, too.  And I'm on a 5yr old rig with a 8800GTX.

I was having video stuttering with my NVidia GT 460X with current drivers.  A friend told me to try the beta driver, so I did.

It makes all the difference in the world.  After installation, all (and I mean ALL) stuttering went away.  If you have an NVidia card and want the best performance from GW2, I highly recommend the new beta drivers. It's like playing a different game.

Hmm, good to know. If I run into anything I'll give it a shot.

That improvement looks nice. But the message on start is terrible customer service. You don't put a warning about, "Your video card may have issues leading to <list of bad things>" and make mention of a beta driver on your initial log-in screen for a mass-market release. Either provide it as information "This beta driver may improve your experience", with a link, or wait till the driver actually releases to recommend it.

Some people can't even run the game without using that beta driver.  Even then, some are still having problems with the video driver crashing after upgrading.  The game engine is very unforgiving even for people who supposedly meet the requirements to run the game.

Login server is down again in Europe. They had the same problem on Sunday. Not going too smooth. The game seems to work fine if only you could play.

I had the same problem after I logged out for the update earlier. It would take about a dozen attempts to get to character select, then it would let me try to get into the game 3 or 4 times then boot me back out to the launcher. All the while my friends were telling me I was showing as online in the game. After trying on and off for about an hour I decided to restart my router and it let me in on the first attempt. I assume my IP changing make it finally realise I wasn't online and release the session or something. Might be worth a try for you.