Guild Wars 2

[Silent Remorse]

Originally Posted by IzzehO

Which is going to be hilarious when its full by Saturday morning.

Yeah I've decided following the Oceanic crowd is always a bad idea.

[texiun]

Yeah Sea of Sorrows has been chosen by WP

[boneburner]

I dont see this as a problem like it is in some other games, Servers dont get "full" to the point where you cant get in, you just get put into an overflow server. The game then notifies you when a space is open, and you can move or decide not to, depending on what you are doing.

This just puts you back in the queue until another spot opens up - great system.

[supernom]

"tracert 64.25.39.1" or "ping 64.25.39.1" for GW2 NA server ping.

Mine

Ping statistics for 64.25.39.1:
 Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
 Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
 Minimum = 213ms, Maximum = 225ms, Average = 216ms

[Stevros]

Originally Posted by boneburner

I dont see this as a problem like it is in some other games, Servers dont get "full" to the point where you cant get in, you just get put into an overflow server. The game then notifies you when a space is open, and you can move or decide not to, depending on what you are doing.

This just puts you back in the queue until another spot opens up - great system.

Just gotta hope they have fixed it. It was broken last beta.

[Pinkeh]

Originally Posted by Silent Remorse

Yeah I've decided following the Oceanic crowd is always a bad idea.

Only for the first few months

[Scroosh]

Wow this game is going to be popular... The digital editions are already sold out: https://buy.guildwars2.com/

[IzzehO]

Originally Posted by supernom

"tracert 64.25.39.1" or "ping 64.25.39.1" for GW2 NA server ping.

Tracing route to 64.25.39.1 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1     9 ms    22 ms     6 ms  192.168.254.1
  2   885 ms   303 ms   289 ms  172.24.231.37
  3   104 ms   102 ms    96 ms  mas2-ge13-1.gw.optusnet.com.au [210.49.63.45]
  4    96 ms    88 ms   137 ms  mas3-ge11-0.gw.optusnet.com.au [211.29.125.241]
  5   228 ms   236 ms   221 ms  203.208.131.229
  6   337 ms   339 ms   319 ms  xe-2-3-0.lax30.ip4.tinet.net [216.221.157.153]
  7   227 ms   229 ms   228 ms  xe-8-1-0.lax20.ip4.tinet.net [89.149.181.170]
  8   227 ms   227 ms   231 ms  xe-11-3-0.edge1.LosAngeles6.level3.net [4.68.62.1]
  9   229 ms   228 ms   249 ms  vlan80.csw3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.144.190]
 10   227 ms   229 ms   228 ms  ae-82-82.ebr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.137.25]
 11   257 ms   259 ms   269 ms  ae-3-3.ebr3.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.132.78]
 12   258 ms   271 ms   267 ms  ae-63-63.csw1.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.151.133]
 13   266 ms   257 ms   307 ms  ae-1-60.edge2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.145.11]
 14   275 ms   258 ms   269 ms  4.59.197.34
 15   274 ms   258 ms   270 ms  64.25.32.9
 16   260 ms   253 ms   268 ms  64.25.32.26
 17   534 ms   519 ms   569 ms  64.25.39.1

Trace complete.

I hate 3G, hurry up and get my ADSL connected!

EDIT: Is gw.optusnet.com.au a coincidence? or do Optus actually have a set path for Guild Wars?

Update from work:

Tracing route to 64.25.39.1 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1     2 ms     1 ms     1 ms  192.168.16.1
  2     2 ms     2 ms     1 ms  203.42.59.49
  3    27 ms    27 ms    27 ms  Loopback1.cha24.Brisbane.telstra.net [165.228.7.1]
  4    31 ms    29 ms    31 ms  TenGigE0-8-0-2.cha-core4.Brisbane.telstra.net [203.50.51.1]
  5    49 ms    49 ms    57 ms  Bundle-Ether11.ken-core4.Sydney.telstra.net [203.50.11.72]
  6    52 ms    48 ms    47 ms  Bundle-Ether1.pad-gw2.Sydney.telstra.net [203.50.6.29]
  7    59 ms    45 ms    44 ms  TenGigabitEthernet2-0.sydp-core02.Sydney.reach.com [203.50.13.50]
  8   182 ms   206 ms   182 ms  i-0-2-2-0.paix-core01.bx.reach.com [202.84.140.165]
  9   230 ms   232 ms   231 ms  i-0-3-1-1.eqnx-core01.bx.reach.com [202.84.140.142]
 10   182 ms   185 ms   182 ms  i-1-5.eqnx02.bi.reach.com [202.84.251.50]
 11   212 ms   212 ms   215 ms  l3-peer.eqnx02.pr.reach.com [134.159.62.198]
 12   218 ms   225 ms   223 ms  vlan90.csw4.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.152.254]
 13   215 ms   215 ms   215 ms  ae-92-92.ebr2.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.153.29]
 14   187 ms   184 ms   185 ms  ae-2-2.ebr2.SanJose5.Level3.net [4.69.148.141]
 15   191 ms   191 ms   191 ms  ae-6-6.ebr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.148.201]
 16   222 ms   223 ms   222 ms  ae-3-3.ebr3.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.132.78]
 17   237 ms   229 ms   229 ms  ae-93-93.csw4.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.151.169]
 18   225 ms   224 ms   224 ms  ae-4-90.edge2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.145.203]
 19   233 ms   225 ms   226 ms  4.59.197.34
 20   223 ms   222 ms   222 ms  64.25.32.9
 21   401 ms   230 ms   229 ms  64.25.32.26
 22   226 ms   225 ms   225 ms  64.25.39.1

Trace complete.

Pinging 64.25.39.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Ping statistics for 64.25.39.1:
    Packets: Sent = 50, Received = 50, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 224ms, Maximum = 448ms, Average = 239ms

Just me or does Optus path seem far more efficient? Also am I correct in thinking these are Eastern US servers? That sort of sucks... maybe we need to find out which (if any) of the servers are hosted on the western side.

[Exploit101]

200ms doesn't seem like anything to be concerned about
considering when I play HoN I sit at 300ms & ping is definitely vital there.

[s9131514]

awwwman, i was going to purchase it today and.... https://buy.guildwars2.com/

[Everlong]

How can a digital version be sold out?

[IzzehO]

Originally Posted by Everlong

How can a digital version be sold out?

I imagine they've restricted pre-purchase to limit the number of people in the betas. Most likely as their servers (and server code) aren't running anywhere near 100%.

[boneburner]

Regina on facebook

Quote
We have sold out of keys for digital distribution in North America. GameStop and Best Buy still have stock available.

We limit sales to ensure we have enough capacity for our customers. We're likely to have capacity available after the initial crunch at the start of the weekend. Players who purchase when we're able to resume digital sales at buy.guildwars2.com will still be able to play for the remainder of the weekend. ~RB2

Doing a quick calculation based on 10k max limit per server means bwe is limited initially to around 480k players. Just a guesstimate, but ties into their "....there will be hundreds of thousands playing" quote.

[s9131514]

Originally Posted by boneburner

The above quote.

So tell me then; is there a way that I can pre-load the beta onto my PC so that when the game comes up for sale again Ill be able to buy and play straight away?

edit answer: yes. download the file from here http://www.mediafire.com/?zi74u87trysa0zt

[Snikeron]

Originally Posted by s9131514

So tell me then; is there a way that I can pre-load the beta onto my PC so that when the game comes up for sale again Ill be able to buy and play straight away?

I'd say it's highly unlikely as the beta client is heavily simplified at the moment (it's just 2 files, the .exe and the .dat - plus not all content is available yet). That being said, I'm not too sure if there'll be some tool to update the client in the future (which may or may not need user account authentication) or if Anet will just release the final client separately altogether.