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Gill Halendt · Aug 11, 2010, 03:05 PM // 15:05

Same for me, no rollback.

Can't login anymore tough (040s), so they're likely not done yet.

Great job regardless, that was pretty quick anyway.

Tullzinski · Aug 11, 2010, 03:07 PM // 15:07

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Originally Posted by Killed u man

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Whew stand down man, you are reading WAY too much into what I said. I just thought it was funny view of non profits, which obviously is different since you are in belguim. I was in no way ridiculing your post and sorry if you took it that way.

Rocky Raccoon · Aug 11, 2010, 03:10 PM // 15:10

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Originally Posted by Tullzinski

Whew stand down man, you are reading WAY too much into what I said. I just thought it was funny view of non profits, which obviously is different since you are in belguim. I was in no way ridiculing your post and sorry if you took it that way.

Hey Tullz your past is showing, lol.

Tullzinski · Aug 11, 2010, 03:12 PM // 15:12

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Originally Posted by Rocky Raccoon

Hey Tullz your past is showing, lol.

Hehe, sorry rocky it was pretty obvious there wasn't it

Mike Zadorojny · Aug 11, 2010, 03:19 PM // 15:19

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Originally Posted by ll Jamie ll

Well umm our guild rerolled new cape + gh like 2 days ago. But we're back to the old gh + cape lol.

Apparently some guilds had their information reverted to an earlier backup that we had done. We just refreshed the data with the backup we did at the start of the maintenance. You might need to relog in order to see your correct guild and alliance ranking but your trim and guildhall data should now be correct in game.

EDIT: If you are still seeing a problem please contact support. Thanks!

Killed u man · Aug 11, 2010, 03:47 PM // 15:47

Gotta give Anet props on the fast switch tough, I can already play again, and my ping hasn't changed at all compared to yesterday.

Then again, I didn't expect my ping to get any worse (as I said, cheaper servers doesn't necesarily mean worse servers).

I am, however, amused by the frozen ladder. Random guilds stealing ladder, go!

Anon-e-mouse · Aug 11, 2010, 05:08 PM // 17:08

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Originally Posted by Mike Zadorojny

Apparently some guilds had their information reverted to an earlier backup that we had done. We just refreshed the data with the backup we did at the start of the maintenance.

Shouldn't Mike be marked as an Anet employee, after all he's only been doing QA for years.

Thanks for getting it done so quickly, now to get the ZM and complete Riverside several times...

Meridon · Aug 11, 2010, 06:13 PM // 18:13

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Originally Posted by Killed u man

My point was that Anet is a company trying to make money. And unless a company is non-profit organized, it "only" cares about profit.

If Anet is moving their servers, it's not because they want to provide a better service for us, it's because they can save more money.

Right, I could write a huge, argumented wall of text here on Business Economics and whatnot, but that would derail the thread completely.

All I'm going to say is, have a go at definining the words 'company' and 'profit' for yourself. Think about them, write them down on a piece of paper, so you are absolutely certain on your definition on them. Only then are you allowed to go to Wikipedia and to compare the difference. I'll give you a hint already: 'companies' have to make a 'profit', in order for them to still exist in next 5-10 years. That's why the people in the company work for their cause, because otherwise they are going to lose their jobs. This also goes for ArenaNET, who just doesn't have the luxury of being handed a big fat government cheque every month. As a result, they have every reason to be as efficient as possible, hence why they are probably moving to a new data center.

If you wish that things would be different, that Anet could afford the luxury of blowing loads of money on expensive data centers and skill updates that don't see any form of return, then you should be the one writing that cheque for them.

As a player and a GW fan, sure, it's frustrating that the game you love gets less and less care. As a customer, I call 1500+ hours of gaming pleasure for around 100 euros a great deal, with no reason to complain. As a Business Economics student, I call it sensible business management.

Companies aren't evil by definition you know. Unless they deal in like, biochemical weapons to Saddam Hussein or something lol

JR · Aug 11, 2010, 06:27 PM // 18:27

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Originally Posted by Anon-e-mouse

Shouldn't Mike be marked as an Anet employee

Sha-zam! Welcome, Mike.

jray14 · Aug 11, 2010, 07:34 PM // 19:34

Thanks for the quick and successful (at least for me) maintenance, ANet! No rollback, no problems with guild hall like a few people have reported. The ping is pretty much how it's always been before: average around 500, usually around 150 but with occasional 5-20k lag spikes.

To Chicken To Die · Aug 11, 2010, 07:35 PM // 19:35

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Originally Posted by To Chicken To Die

Anyone considerd the fact that the downtime probbaly is can be most likely is the only thing we shall ever notice about the data center movement?

I am still with my older argument

**cosyfiep** · Aug 11, 2010, 09:03 PM // 21:03

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Originally Posted by JR

Sha-zam! Welcome, Mike.

yeah I was kinda wondering who he was...then I saw your post and when I reloaded he was red

so welcome to the ....d...uhm....er....ah heck....glad you are red now, so we all know who you are too.

*Darcy* · Aug 11, 2010, 09:12 PM // 21:12

That whole thing was relatively painless. Good Job.

End · Aug 11, 2010, 09:14 PM // 21:14

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Originally Posted by Darcy

That whole thing was relatively painless. Good Job.

I actually have a causality of the outage tyvm...I decided to read since the servers were down...and I got a paper cut...and it hurts

**cosyfiep** · Aug 11, 2010, 09:51 PM // 21:51

I actually slept thru the whole thing

If they had not told me I would not have known....that is to say everything is just about the same as it was, not noticing any significant difference.

so

there was NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.....you can give your tinfoil hat a rest (and wash your hair).

Opeth · Aug 11, 2010, 10:31 PM // 22:31

cant connect to my main account (keeps err=007). however if i login in any other account (tryed 3 different ones) all of them work. Even in the same place.

Any experiencing the same problem?

shoesbags · Aug 11, 2010, 11:17 PM // 23:17

I had to redownload the game again through -image and am getting an average of 450-500KB/s up from the usual 35-60KB/s from the old data center. I really hope the move is related to my faster speeds. I can't want to see how I'll ping average in-game.

cantalus · Aug 11, 2010, 11:44 PM // 23:44

in randoms, so far getting multiple 007s, despite there being absolutly nothing wrong with my connection, 040s and 004s, slightly annoying, but not a surprise

over the last two or so hours

Shadowhaze · Aug 12, 2010, 12:11 AM // 00:11

So far, mine has been working fine - I've been on and off since around 3pm est. A few in the guild have had some dc's though.

fowlero · Aug 12, 2010, 12:37 AM // 00:37

Can we expect this new server situation to pick up after an initial teething period, or is this what we can come to expect? Because if not, good luck with gw2.

Came on this evening, played 5 GvG's of which 1 game had all our team load, 1 DC on the other team. Every other game both teams had 2+ no loads.

Oddly it's the same people most of the time, but they have never had issues loading into games before the server change. Could this be a trafficking issue?

In addition these matches were all in euro servers (206), could be completely wrong but it seems only american data center was moved as euro ip's have stayed the same?

A good example of this stupid situation on obs atm, is [Team] vs [afk]. Both teams 5, 7 & 8 don't load in.