Guild Wars 2 Dev Tracker

Thanks for letting us know, I passed it on and some people are looking into it!

Chronomancers furious, film at 11.

Hi all, I want to give you a behind-the-scenes look at the unusual number of issues after yesterday's game update. I talked with one of our Senior Software Engineers to help me outline what happened, so here you go! In Monday's studio update we talked about "taking on projects that will keep the game healthy in the long run, like refactoring large swaths of old code". Development on a game that's been live for a decade can be a minefield: fixes like that risk breaking content that was inadvertently depending on a bug in order to "work." That's what happened here when we fixed one of those pieces of old code. We did catch the problem and fix it, but Murphy's Law was now paying attention. You see, shipping a huge live game like GW2 requires a complex system for managing the flow of code and content going out the door. Behind the scenes there are multiple "copies" of a lot of stuff we work with: copies that are getting tinkered with, copies that are getting tested, and copies ... Read more

We are aware that a number of players are currently experiencing connectivity problems such as Error 42 messages in game, trading post performance, and client logins. We are currently investigating the network issues causing these problems. Thank you for your patience--we know this is frustrating.

Well now I have to go see if I actually can do that...

You're not crying, it is extremely frustrating! I'm sorry it's still going on, but we've got some people on the team who are focusing on just this issue right now so we can sort it out as soon as possible.

Sorry for the slow reply on this one, I've been a teensy bit busy 😵‍💫 But I am checking on this!

Hey all, we thought we had this sorted last night, I'm so sorry this wasn't the case! I'm letting people know right now so we can dig back in.

Hey all, you should see an improvement in this issue now!

Hey all, you should see an improvement in this issue now!