Is guild wars down?

I was on 30mins ago n now it just sits on the connecting to arenanet screen. Any1 else having this?

Works for me..

Me too^^.....

Working here.

Both my US and EU accounts work fine.

damn. now i have to work out what it is . Think its to do with my isp cause both mine and my bf's arn't starting. Tried the router/modem restart. Doesn't seem to help. See how it is in the morning. Thanks guys

i can't connect either

Same problem being experienced from Cape Town, South Africa.

It's trying to pull down an update but it's not succeeding.

It's not my line because the rest of my international traffic is working 100%

No problems in The Netherlands.

Using any firewall that might have stopped to recognize GW as a trusted program?

Working in montreal too BTW.

Connecting.....................

finally get in ping = 20k..cant move or anything goes upto 200k

had this since friday -_-

I didn't change anything on my computer for one month now... and it worked fine... but today, I just doesn't want to connect

I was playing for about 30minutes before dinner. Came back 30 mins later to play again and it was stuck on that "connecting to arenanet" screen. Still the same thing today. Checking the router soon to see if it suddenly decided to block it :S I donno but i hope i get it working soon

EDIT: No problems with the router. Ports are open. -diag completes. Have deleted and re-added gw to zone alarm, tried it without zone alarm, updated firmware on the router/modem. Running out of ideas

I think we are still seeing the aftermath of a major game update. This may lead to dome log in issues. But, it's only a guess, could just as easily be a regional internet issue.

By any chance have you all ran a -image lately?

I find that if my game is fully updated it cuts the connection and game loading time down a lot.

My log in and character seletion screens are a bit slower since I got back yesterday, I think it something to do with this "background downloading". I would let it finish download but I have no idea how big the download is.

The download itself doesn't seem to affect the gameplay much, fps still high, but sometime the ping did jump right out of the roof.

We ended up uninstalling and re-installing. Works good again now. But still annoying that it had to come to that... Thanks for all the suggestions guys. cya in game

The last game update is 125 megabytes. You may want to bite the bullet and do a -image to get it over with because all that background streaming will negatively impact your game.

Maybe run it before you go to work, school or bed.

"C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -image

Don't forget to take the "-image" out of the command line when you want to load the game up for play.

should have tried a system restore to an earlier time when it was working?

I dont have guild wars on c drive. and c drive is all i back up.

Now i'm getting error=005 on most of my characters. The others can get in town but cant leave. This is a guild wars server error right? or is there something i can do about it?

Woah - this is EXACTLY what is happening to myself and a guildmate - both, coincidentally in Australia (I'm thru Westnet).

I've already tried the -image thing and this had no effect. Some can get into town, but none can leave town, and some I can't log into at all. Sadly, I'm slightly heartened that others are experiencing this, as change may come from it.