servers up

[Brogarn]

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. 

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.

[Tannhauser]

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

[KallDrexx]

[Tmon]

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."

[Threash]

8:50 am est, not working.

[Dark_MadMax]

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

[Lantyssa]

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

[Tmon]

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. 

[Xuri]

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

[Tannhauser]

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

[01101010]

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. 

[Der Helm]

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. 

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

[Seraphim]

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. 

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

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.

[Threash]

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

[sachiel]

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.

[schild]

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

[Venkman]

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.

[Threash]

At present our server team are working on the underlying problems that are causing login issues, we thank you for your continued patience as we work to resolve this. ~AT

No ETA, posted 25 mins ago.

[sachiel]

Patched up and logged in.

[murdoc]

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.

[schild]

Email validation isn't working. Whooooop.

For those wondering.

Code:

Template "{"code":3010,"product":1008,"module":1,"line":462,"text":""}" not found

[Threash]

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

[Seraphim]

Patched up and logged in.

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

[schild]

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

[Falconeer]

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?

[Tyrnan]

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.

[Threash]

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

[Venkman]

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

[Venkman]

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.

[KallDrexx]

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

[kildorn]

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.

[Venkman]

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

[Der Helm]

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?

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).

[Maledict]

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.

[Tannhauser]

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!