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GW1 Spoils the Community for GW2 With No Down Times

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Over at GWOnline.Net, Lensor discusses the downtime in GW1 and how likely it will be similar in GW2.

For anybody that has never played GW1 and has no idea, us GW1 players are spoiled with maintenance time. Many times I have been playing myself and not realized the game was in maintance.

Downtimes I never experienced but GW1 just really never had them. Now if you are new to the Guild Wars 2 Player Nation and learning about GW2 this is a big deal.

How many times were you playing that flavor of the year MMO and try to log in one day and couldn't because of downtime/maintenance? I know by my experiences on some games my free time that I could of played I ended up not playing because of such issues.

ArenaNet spoiled me in a good way. Only time I lost a connection to GW1 was when my cable internets went out which was rare but it does happen.

Guild Wars 2 Stratics staff would like to thank Lensor and GWOnline.Net for putting up this article and information out for the players and fans.

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GW1 Spoils the Community for GW2 With No Down Times

Posted 5 February 2012 by Lensor


The Guild Wars 1 team just announced that there will some maintenance of the live servers on February 6. This maintenance will last for up to 4 hours. This is nothing special in the MMO/Online gaming world. What is special though, is that the gamers can continue to play in the meantime! The announcement is just that there might be connection issues at some points during this window.

As a matter of fact, Guild Wars 1 has only had down times a mere handful of times since the game went live in 2005. Usually for server maintenance, and never for very long. The longest was probably when they physically moved the servers to another building.

The only downside with such a great record might be that ArenaNet really has spoiled the community rotten with such a superior up-time record. Now we are freaking out if a patch takes more than a minute to load before letting us on to the log-in screen. Words are that the Guild Wars 2 is using a very similar patching technology though, so it is looking good for down-time-free gaming also in Guild Wars 2.
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