ANet: Props to your tech team

Normally I wouldn't bother writing a post like this, but I thought that you would actually appreciate it so I figured it was worth the time.

Today I decided to reinstall GW and was bracing myself for a long and painful day of patch updates and long downloads. Much to my surprise, I was able to load the game very quickly, and once I got in I was downloading an average of 500kb/sec (my average in other applications is about 50kb). You guys really designed an amazing system for GW, and I've never been able to really appreciate it until now!

Thanks for your hard work!

Huzzah Anet!

now try attending a wintersday event. You'll be changing your tune.

^^what he said >.>

wait...I never got lagg in the wintersday event.....I'm serious.

Remember to -image you entire install, your load times will be reduced dramatically.

now try having a 2002 computer and a series 4000 Nvidia graphics card

I have a 8600 GT....

It could run my PC, I could take out my processor and RAM and it would still run, thats how beasty my video card is.

And on topic....lost 2 hats because of the brilliant design.

Not if your running Vista...

never got wintersday event in my lag ... and i'm serious

I bet you also love vista

Wouldn't install Vista on my computer if I got paid to. Be better off installing a newly created virus.

Just quad that video card, get an extra 2 gigs of ram, and a x2 2.9 ghz processor and you might be able to run Crysis on maximum settings.

No way! I never got Wintersday Event in my lag either! :P


Anyway, I can't say I'm as fortunate as the OP. The computer I'm using needed to be wiped and pretty much started up from scratch a while ago. before that, on the EotN Pre-Order weekend, I tried loading into the area beneath LA. 30k files, each one taking 20 minutes, give or take. 1% was loaded after an hour and a half.

Also, I didn't lag too much in the event. Average ping was 3.5k. I was fine. I rubber-banded a little, but I got all of my gifts and never 007ed.

Guild Wars backend tech is very good - just a pity that's where all the talent is.

I learned that hard way. Update to 8800 from me coming up!...and maybe also to 4gig ram instead of two....too much memory to run vista, seriously.

8800 GT here, worth every penny. Completely changed the graphics for me, I moved from a 7600 to the 8800 and everything looked amazing. More depth, better colour... just beautiful.

Haven't bothered with Vista, although I have been told that Vista handles the bigger monitors (I've got a Dell 24inch widescreen 1920x1200) better than XP.

Kudos Anet! I just hope GW2 is run as smoothly and support is as good.

I attended 4 present droppings. Only had lag once, which was at max 4k ping

GW has by far the best performance i have ever seen in an online game.
Ive had downtime only twice since i begun playing (at release) and the only time i have experienced major problems was yesterday during present dropps, had 50 000ms ping, which was rather interesting.