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Stress test
Lord.Bachus
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According to the official GW2 twitter channel there is a stress test going on this weekend. The whole test offcourse is under NDA. They are asking people continously not to break NDA. I think its a fun quote :
"If you are part of the current stress test, you are under NDA. NDA= do not tweet about it"
"If you are part of the stresstest: a) you are not meant to talk about it. b) having issues is normal. That's why it is a test"
"Guys: calm down. Obviously we cannot give public updates on teh stresstest because its under NDA, should be pretty straight forward"
Obviously people didn't seem to understand that there is more testing going on then just the annopunced publ;ic beta test weekends.
I think they might be stressing zone stabbility under stress. Something very important.
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Good chance of that maybe....who knows....I personally fear GW2 is further out that ANYONE wants to admit, hence all the hush-hush and harsh NDA chatter....
Seems more like its a stress test on the folks that got invited and they are failing badly.
Not really. They know how many people pre-purchased, they know what kind of load they can expect on beta weekend. Stress test is there to make sure it will run smoothly, and the closed nature/NDA is there so people know that they are playing under very crash-prone environment and it is not final state of the game.
It's simply being smart. Why would a company want to openly showcase crashing servers when they can just week or two later show off a working game to larger audience?
I dont think so, an NDA is there with a reason, in Arenanets case the NDA is there to prevent ingame information thats not set intoo stone yet from leaking. And then having a community that starts whining when its not in the released game.
GW2 will for sure release some day later this year.
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I saw some chatter yesterday, can't verify, that it was invite only, and not all the pre-purchasers...but again, I cannot verify
Announicing there's a stress test days after they promised people beta access if they pre-purchased the game is a bad PR move. Especially if they don't allow beta testers into the stress test. Yes yes, "stress test isn't beta!" is what I keep hearing, well I've been part of many betas and there were stress during the betas so the terms aren't mutualy exculsive. In fact this particular non-beta stress test is the exception.
There was a 6 hour stress test yesterday. It ended. Most people who pre-purchased were able to participate, although they were not notified with an email like other testers were.
Many days left in this year Bachus, many many
There's a rumor, for lack of a better word, that last week of April will be a beta weekend including those people who pre-purchased. That weekend will not be under NDA, so even if there is some hush-hush at the moment, it can only last for a couple more weeks.
How would someone download the clinet if they were not invited?
Unless that "rumor" is false......Not trolling, just saying...
I heard that somebody was sending a client download link around on Reddit.
I can't confirm if that's true or not, though, it's just something I read on a forum.
It's true but whenever someone posted something that broke NDA it got removed promptly.
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How would someone download the clinet if they were not invited?
I heard that somebody was sending a client download link around on Reddit.
I can't confirm if that's true or not, though, it's just something I read on a forum.
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I understand why they did a stress test, but doing it right after pre-purchases were made available and we were promised access to every beta was a bad move.
From GW2 twitter:
Our first Beta Weekend Event will be at the end of this month. We have not announced a specific date yet.
"Loading screens" are not "instances".
Your personal efforts to troll any game will not, in fact, impact the success or failure of said game.
It isn't much of a rumor when ArenAnet officially confirmed that there's going to be a Beta Weekend Event this month. If the stress test is successful, and only ArenaNet knows if that is the case, then we may in fact see the Event start on the 20th, like a few spoilerhappy retailers hinted at.
The client has been leaked since the last press beta weekend. The one that took place in March.
It is all good but what is interesting how many times ArenaNet has to stress to current beta testers not to talk about stuff while you are under NDA. Who picked these people, seriously ?
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the stress test yesterday was like 30min to an hr tops.
I am not in beta nor a stress tester
You should have seen the amount of posts on facebook saying "I've been invited to GW2 beta!" on previous betas.
it was actually closer to 6 hrs. I have seen a few people verify this and thats an odd number to just come up with at random
Ok too much misinformation here. I'll clarify:
Stress Beta was 6 hours. (5h 30min to be exact. It ended a bit early)
Pre-purchasers did get in. So the whole theory of 'But Arena-net said only people under NDA' is false. So yes, Pre-purchasing did actually entitle people to the stress test. No they are not under NDA as pre-purchasers have not signed an NDA agreement. Therefore it was Arenanet who messed up. (Not that it was a bad thing). What does this mean?
It means, while Arenanet can get stuff removed from the internet they could never prosecute a person who hasn't signed the NDA. Also, they will not ban/take action against these people (thus far anyway) as they are customers.
There was content that was leaked to places like 4chan, reddit and someone even livestreamed on twitch.tv for a short while.
What i heard, from here and other forums, was that the test was around 6 hours long, the idea of doing it before the beta weekend is that during the beta weekend they will have more people on then ever before and they need to make sure it will be ok. Also, lets be honest with ourselves, Anet is taking a gamble with the pre-purchases. If we who pre-purchased (myself included) are unable to log into the beta weekend due to server trouble or whatever, there will be hell to pay. I have given them my money, they will give me my promised weekends. I am sure all of you feel the same. We have not been disappointed by Anet yet, but that doesn't mean we won't react accordingly if we are let down. Eitherway, I could care less about a 6 hour stress, it was not a beta and not something I signed up for. And thanks for Anet for making sure they are testing things right before letting me get in there. Cheers.
I'm sorry but the only one saying anything about the second coming is you. Fans of a game accept its flaws and strengths.
Judging by yesterday's performance, I don't think you should be worried