Curse

JediKnight · Mar 13, 2006, 11:00 PM // 23:00

Network News

Due to a server error, Guild Wars experienced an unintentional reset of the traders. For nearly an hour, traders were selling items at unrealistically low prices. Due to the harmful impact that such an event would cause to the game economy, we are rolling back the entire state of the game to shortly before the problem began, that is, to 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time, 21:00 GMT.

This is straight from guildwars.com

Link = http://www.guildwars.com/aboutgw/networknews/

iissmart · Mar 13, 2006, 11:05 PM // 23:05

Can you please post a link to that from guildwars.com?

~Öç~Trigger · Mar 13, 2006, 11:05 PM // 23:05

So when can we get back on?

wsmcasey · Mar 13, 2006, 11:07 PM // 23:07

Ahahahaha, if thats true then I don't feel so bad being at work today!

Claire Wolf · Mar 13, 2006, 11:13 PM // 23:13

Thats very good! I'm very pleased that they are concerned like this with the economy.. Just imagine, a game having its own 'depression' state.

Priestess Chastity · Mar 13, 2006, 11:14 PM // 23:14

is it fixed now?
can other people get on?
im getting the error 72 like a few days ago

scars of insanity · Mar 13, 2006, 11:15 PM // 23:15

wow i have to redo thirsty river, elona, and dunes now

Enzd · Mar 13, 2006, 11:23 PM // 23:23

And my party has to wipe at the end of Thunderhead Keep again. I am dissapointed.

NEOgeo · Mar 13, 2006, 11:25 PM // 23:25

thats kidna lazy, ok ok i can put it with the 100 shards and the 35 sup absorbs i bought being rolled back, but not the *20%/20% defensive wicked staff of defense* i made being rolled back too, and the 30k+ i made from farming hydras i nthat time, surly they could just reverse all trades in this time ? noit rollback the whole damn game ?

Priestess Chastity · Mar 13, 2006, 11:26 PM // 23:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by scars of insanity

wow i have to redo thirsty river, elona, and dunes now

but the game is letting you in now?

Hanok Odbrook · Mar 13, 2006, 11:28 PM // 23:28

I was getting Error 13 for a bit, then restarted my comps and still am getting error 72. Anybody heard how long the roll back will take? I was looking forward to some game time without having to deal with the young one tonight dadnapit.

Hanok Odbrook
Real Millennium Group Guild
Truth * Knowlege * Peace

JediKnight · Mar 13, 2006, 11:32 PM // 23:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by NEOgeo

thats kidna lazy, ok ok i can put it with the 100 shards and the 35 sup absorbs i bought being rolled back, but not the *20%/20% defensive wicked staff of defense* i made being rolled back too, and the 30k+ i made from farming hydras i nthat time, surly they could just reverse all trades in this time ? noit rollback the whole damn game ?

To reset individual items on individual accounts will take forever it is far easier to roll back the whole game than to leave people in limbo for ages!

Everybody has lost out by this, even those who exploited the error.

Devils Adcovate #2 · Mar 13, 2006, 11:38 PM // 23:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by NEOgeo

thats kidna lazy, ok ok i can put it with the 100 shards and the 35 sup absorbs i bought being rolled back, but not the *20%/20% defensive wicked staff of defense* i made being rolled back too, and the 30k+ i made from farming hydras i nthat time, surly they could just reverse all trades in this time ? noit rollback the whole damn game ?

Could be worse....they could ban you for exploiting an explot instead of reporting it.... that happed when they fixed the mirror to give out 50k xp (instead of automatic level 20) and people beat it alot to farm skill points, and they even banned certain accounts.

sartori · Mar 14, 2006, 12:24 AM // 00:24

its been showed to us over and over again that using what they provide to gain unbelievable wealth is not against the rules

its only against the rules if you have to trick the game to do it. noticing that shards and sup abs runes are 250 gold and deciding to get a bunch isnt cheating, its not looking a gift horse in the mouth :P

of course, i reported it after i bought my share...i just didnt want to report it, lose out on the opportunity, and have everyone else get rich while i was being a good samaritan, dig?

Devils Adcovate #2 · Mar 14, 2006, 12:34 AM // 00:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by sartori

its been showed to us over and over again that using what they provide to gain unbelievable wealth is not against the rules

its only against the rules if you have to trick the game to do it. noticing that shards and sup abs runes are 250 gold and deciding to get a bunch isnt cheating, its not looking a gift horse in the mouth :P

of course, i reported it after i bought my share...i just didnt want to report it, lose out on the opportunity, and have everyone else get rich while i was being a good samaritan, dig?

So you exploited a exploit....then reported it so that every thing would go back to normal....then you where hoping to sell the left overs ehh?.....that sounds like exploiting an exploit to me.....

sartori · Mar 14, 2006, 04:52 AM // 04:52

:P

id rather it not happen at all but if things like the reset ARE going to happen, i would very much like to be on the "winning team" this time, thats all

Adaria · Mar 14, 2006, 05:10 AM // 05:10

Quote:

From www.guildwars.com

Network News

Due to a server error, Guild Wars experienced an unintentional reset of the traders. For nearly an hour, traders were selling items at unrealistically low prices. Due to the harmful impact that such an event would cause to the game economy, we are rolling back the entire state of the game to shortly before the problem began, that is, to 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time, 21:00 GMT. We estimate that the game will be accessible at approximately 11:00 p.m. PST tonight (07:00 GMT).

Note the bold, underlined text for everyone who is curious as to when the server will come back up. Earlier it said 8:30 PST/11:30 EST, now it is going to be 11:00pm PST/2:00am EST. That could change depending on how much longer this takes. Hopefully it will be back up by tomorrow morning.

NEOgeo · Mar 14, 2006, 05:23 AM // 05:23

well this is clearly not an exploit, infact anet intentionally reset the market one time before, and ruined the economy for a while, and they didnt roll back anything, as they meant to do it, it just turned out to be a mistake , and when i first noticed this latest reset , some ppl were saying dont buy loads cause they just reset the economy again like last time and they wont be worth much more if anything more, as the prices will stay that low for while (i didnt beleive that when i seen the sup absorb price tho, lol)

and the fact is if they banned everyone who bought something cheap during this mess up, they ould be banning 70%+ of their games quite possibly :'D

kito · Mar 14, 2006, 05:27 AM // 05:27

LMAO this is really starting to get annoying. Theyre constantly having problems and its pissing me off

Adaria · Mar 14, 2006, 05:31 AM // 05:31

The reset last year was to bring all the trader prices together rather than have them seperated by region so prices would be globally the same. This one wasn't purposely reset. Before there was a reason, this time just happened, server problems arise, this is one of the first and only major ones I can ever remember Guild Wars having since the March Beta Event last year when I first started playing Guild Wars. This is the longest downtime period I have seen since the Beta Events, and thus far, Guild Wars has done a pretty damn good job of being stable considering the amount of players around the world they have to support.

I honestly don't believe this was intentional, if it was intentally done, they wouldn't be going to the trouble of rolling back everything. It's more trouble than it's worth if this was all planned to be intentally done and it wouldn't be taking so long to fix the problem if it were intential...

~Adaria

Edit: Like I said, give them a break. This is the first big problem Guild Wars has had that has cuased the servers to be shut off completely. I know of alot of other games that have constant problems and have more downtime than GW has had in its entirety of being up and running from the day it was released.