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JeuxOnline : Play even when servers are full

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Over at the Jeuxonline they have an article by Uther up about the chances when servers are full and GW2 having an overflow system. This is great news for any that has experienced such things in the past with other MMO's.




Guild Wars 2 Stratics want to to thank JeuxOnline and Uther for having this information up for all the Guild Wars 2 fans and players. Continuez votre excellent travail! !!


Unless you can read French please use the google translate when you visit the site!


Link: http://www.jeuxonline.info/actualite/34521/jouer-meme-quand-serveurs-pleins



For the click link impaired and translated version:


Play even when servers are full
02.22.2012 at 11:31 | By Uther


This information comes from our site Guild Wars 2

All MMO players have been faced with full server and their queues, forcing them to wait to play. To work around this problem, Guild Wars 2 will incorporate temporary servers where to play during these phases waiting.



All MMO players who participated in the launch of a massively multiplayer title have experienced: the craze of the early days of operation of a game is often inaccessible because of saturated servers. Players are asked to wait in a queue (sometimes stretching several tens of minutes or hours), the time that players log out and leave their place (this is obviously a bit frustrating for players wanting to play quickly, but often, operators are proud of these queues synonymous with popularity and commercial success).

For over ten years, the chaotic MMO launches seem inevitable anyway, but Guild Wars 2 offers a smart idea: when the server is full of players, we will invite him to play just temporarily on a less populated server (called overflow) so it does not have to wait. This is explained Martin Kerstein, responsible for the German community MMORPG on the official forums .
"Let me explain what a" server overflow "and what it does. This is a technology that we use as the system queues. When a map or a world to which you want to connect has reached the limits of its capacity, the game asks if you want to play on a server overflow - you can play right away even if you are still in the queue waiting. Once there is space in your world, you are asked if you want to join your friends on your world. And you keep your gains achieved by playing on the server overflow. "
But the story does not say what happens when the server is full of overflowing in turn.
 
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This is absolutely one of the coolest features I've heard in a long time. I can't believe no one thought of this before!
 
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