ArenaNet announces planned server downtime for Guild Wars

Service may be suspended for up to 24 hours :) First time in 5/6 years?!

I was definitely surprised. I mean, in all the time I've been playing, I've never actually seen that before. But, giving themselves 24 hours to do it, it compensates for potential time issues that could crop up. I'm sure we can all survive for a day out of the game.

Sounds like to me they're doing hardware relocation and perhaps upgrading. It may have something to do with that new iterneration of their game coming out next year. :)

I wonder if this has anything to do with the consistant lag that LimeLight has been providing players for the last few years.

They also just moved what's left of the Aion servers to Texas, apparently. Cost cutting? Consolidation? Down sizing current games? While NCWest tried to spin it as an "upgrade", many are reporting much worse ping rates and increased lag. Seems I'm about the same, I haven't seen any improvement in Aion, but it doesn't seem any worse either.

I've never really had problems with the GW servers, so hope that stays the same. Recently GW holiday events have been a bit flakey, so hope this fixes problems with those.

Aren't CoH/CoV servers in Texas? Maybe they are just moving everything to the same place.

Wow, I cannot actually recall any server downtime at all. Has GW ever had downtime before? And I mean major downtime, like a couple hours, not a few minutes because something went wrong with the servers.

We're all going to die!

Its been delayed to Wednesday, August 11.

I remember the Great Server Roll-back of March 2006... I remembered it being more than 24 hours, but research shows it was less than 8 hours.