Curse

Symeon · Oct 18, 2009, 04:58 PM // 16:58

Guild Wars down.

kupp · Oct 18, 2009, 04:59 PM // 16:59

Yup pretty much.

Reflect · Oct 18, 2009, 05:01 PM // 17:01

so thats what anet did to stop IT, sscrewed the servers, so noone can play??
Damn i wanna play RA and cant :@

Esprit · Oct 18, 2009, 05:04 PM // 17:04

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Originally Posted by willo the dark

Are you guys just winning two matches or are you going for the bonus for 6 wins?

Just two. The reward diminishes too much to make winning 6 games worth that time. The real reward is the faction / gold which does not increase by fulfilling additional objectives. Zcoins are really only icing on the cake, no one really cares about them.

english storm · Oct 18, 2009, 05:17 PM // 17:17

I played HB like normal and didn't resign, had a few fun matches but most just rage quit on me

Howver the game is so laggy now and keeps giving er15 that i will start to resign if i land on red as it's the only way to get a game now!

My New Name · Oct 18, 2009, 05:19 PM // 17:19

it is funny that this isn't the 1st time servers fail cuz of RR day but it seems anet doesn't really give a waffle...
remove z combat anet? maybe? no? ok...

Premium Unleaded · Oct 18, 2009, 05:25 PM // 17:25

Happy Code=15 day!
Can't even AB because of HB...

Red Apple · Oct 18, 2009, 05:40 PM // 17:40

Happy Code=15 day!

Nemesis of God · Oct 18, 2009, 06:04 PM // 18:04

Ah great, free commander points, gold and z-keys!

What could go wrong?

/error 15

MrTev · Oct 18, 2009, 06:13 PM // 18:13

Cancel, rejoin.

Works for me.

kupp · Oct 18, 2009, 06:14 PM // 18:14

It's working now anyway.

slowerpoke · Oct 18, 2009, 06:14 PM // 18:14

everyone who RR's should be banned

flameofaiur · Oct 18, 2009, 06:17 PM // 18:17

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Originally Posted by slowerpoke

everyone who RR's should be banned

Obvious troll is obvious

*edit: Anyway, I only noticed one case of "code=15". International districts anyone?

shadows of hob · Oct 18, 2009, 06:20 PM // 18:20

Yep, plz just ban all the players that resigned 5 times or more in an hour in HB and we are fine.

My New Name · Oct 18, 2009, 06:30 PM // 18:30

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Originally Posted by shadows of hob

Yep, plz just ban all the players that resigned 5 times or more in an hour in HB and we are fine.

just the few thousand of them?

Mr. Undisclosed · Oct 18, 2009, 06:43 PM // 18:43

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Originally Posted by chrisworld

so tell me what happens if i go do some hb **innocently** with a good team of heroes, and i happen to **innocently** have the zq, and i just happen to enter battle and just happen to not resign if i am red and **innocently** play like the good player should during the rr day? The blue side will get pissed off and leave..correct? Because i'm willing to bet the blue side will 99% of the time shout obscenities and leave..but what else will they do? Taking into account the idiots who do stuff in this game i'm willin to bet they threw a crappy team together and wouldn't survive even if they came after me for not resigning, and i have the well built team. Now..if i am on blue? The red guy will resign 99% of the time, the chance of me joining in with someone just like me will be low but it would still suck. In the end i win even more than a zq because i'm not looked at as exploiting and manipulating a match. Hmm...

Tell me what you think of my master evil plan.

.................................

u are so smart.

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Originally Posted by shadows of hob

Yep, plz just ban all the players that resigned 5 times or more in an hour in HB and we are fine.

Oh yes, please do. Then all the claims of GW being a dead game will be true lol.

Evil Eye · Oct 18, 2009, 06:47 PM // 18:47

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Originally Posted by shadows of hob

Yep, plz just ban all the players that resigned 5 times or more in an hour in HB and we are fine.

or remove HB, like they said they would

sixacsix · Oct 18, 2009, 07:01 PM // 19:01

Why not ban them?

If you think about it, this RR stuff has a much greater impact on the economy than things like the Mallyx exploit ever had. Back then if you were really fast and decked with consumables you would look at 5 hours for 1 armbrace without taking any breaks and with no wipes.

It shouldn't matter how many they are, they already paid for the game and are just eating bandwidth and server time now.

Consider it again:

Mallyx exploit: You had to actually put effort into it. There was no magic trick to finish the mission and get the rewards. You still had to beat all the trash before Mallyx and then not wipe on him. There was no ursan/perma SF ezmode. It actually took the most skill anything in PvE is ever going to take. On top of that you had to have an organized group. And then it takes minimum 5 hours to get just 1 armbrace. Nowadays you can get armbraces faster through normal play. And those people back then all got banned because they liked the game a little too much.

RR: You don't even play, you just wait or quit the game. 0 effort, max reward. Just the time to enter the match and zone back to GtoB. Then you get: 1k gold + 6k balth (=1 zkers + 1k balth) + zcoins. You don't need a group. You don't need consums. You don't need to have completed any campaign.

kupp · Oct 18, 2009, 07:13 PM // 19:13

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Originally Posted by sixacsix

Why not ban them?

If you think about it, this RR stuff has a much greater impact on the economy than things like the Mallyx exploit ever had. Back then if you were really fast and decked with consumables you would look at 5 hours for 1 armbrace without taking any breaks and with no wipes.

It shouldn't matter how many they are, they already paid for the game and are just eating bandwidth and server time now.

Consider it again:

Mallyx exploit: You had to actually put effort into it. There was no magic trick to finish the mission and get the rewards. You still had to beat all the trash before Mallyx and then not wipe on him. There was no ursan/perma SF ezmode. It actually took the most skill anything in PvE is ever going to take. On top of that you had to have an organized group. And then it takes minimum 5 hours to get just 1 armbrace. Nowadays you can get armbraces faster through normal play. And those people back then all got banned because they liked the game a little too much.

RR: You don't even play, you just wait or quit the game. 0 effort, max reward. Just the time to enter the match and zone back to GtoB. Then you get: 1k gold + 6k balth (=1 zkers + 1k balth) + zcoins. You don't need a group. You don't need consums. You don't need to have completed any campaign.

Once more, you can't ban these many people. Even in a F2P game killing thounsands of active players goes against their interest and nobody should have to explain why.

There are 25 districts in HB right now and it's far from it's peak. 2500 people just sitting in the district, then add all the people in GToB, all the people in a match, and everyone mapping between places. Also take into account the fact that it's not the same 2500 people doing it for the 24h, they come and do so there's a lot more players than those you can just put together by simple math.

On top of all of that, add everyone who also did RR on the earlier days (65 districts at one time). What do you get in the end... 15k people perhaps, maybe more maybe less? How many active players are again in all of GW?

Banning these many people isn't exactly wise. Wich IMO will also have some backlash in GW2 sales. Sucks, but this is Anet's fault for allowing it >,<

edit: I just counted the American districts, 8 more for the International and 10 more for Europe - English, that's all I bothered to check.

BlackSephir · Oct 18, 2009, 07:18 PM // 19:18

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Originally Posted by Mr. Undisclosed

Oh yes, please do. Then all the claims of GW being a dead game will be true lol.

No one will miss exploiters. There's not much difference between a dead game that has thousands of exploiters in it and a dead game without exploiters.

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Banning these many people isn't exactly wise.

Yeah, if only GW didn't have a monthly fee.