Exceptional Lag Recently?

is it just me or has lag this weekend been untolerable?

everyone is getting it and it's even occuring in towns/posts.

In one day, I lost two tomb runs b/c a player was lagged-out. the towns are horrible and it seems as if everyone is complaining.

i've never seen lag this bad.


perhaps they're streaming too much of factions... hehe

Just been gettin hits in LA, but yeah.... it's kinda abnormal. I get more lag in Guru than anywhere else on the net. Too bad it's the best site for GW!

I would guess as the game has gotten more popular, the servers are having some problems...but of course I am wrong and it's my ISP...

hope something improves soon

anet server sux after update, always lagging lilke hell

I have posted about the lag on 3 occasions. its not worth griping about. each dissguession was removed bacause it isn't in the favor of anet. they are quick to nerf they are quick to change but ask them to clean up their mess and all ya get is removed from here and no response from anet. i personally am not going to buy factions.

and lol yeah its probably my line to 13-17 ms average ping times 8.3 meg dl/ 791k UL speed tested. lol and they will tell me its my line. next they will say its my hardware.lmao

Well, if you flame ANET, then sure your 'suggestions' are going to be removed.

As with the lag, I have noticed a little more than usual. I actually took a screenshot of it. I was going to farm ettins from Beetletun and walked out of the portal and kept going, the map didn't change. It took about 10-15 seconds before the server actually realized I was supposed to be in an instance.

Image - Me standing outside of Beetletun, looking through the portal back at the players.

Disconnected while helping a friend to hell's today...guild leader disconnected a day ago when doing a mission as well. I've been getting the occasional slowdown bug (where you seem to walk slower and slower like on ice, then stop, then lag instantly moves you ahead), as well as the normal movement bug.

I wouldn't consider it untolerable, though.

well i was guest gvging and our whole team lagged out at the same time...we asked the other team if that happened to them, and they said yea. ITS JAPAN HOXORS!

I've noticed a lot more freezing in place/skipping around to random spots in outposts lately (especially busy ones like District 1's). I'm also lagging during merchant/trader transactions too (ie: it takes an extra second or two to sell something or start the chain of sellings/buyings sometimes). In instanced zones or missions everything seems on par with what I've always experienced (ie, the occasional lag spike that everyone gets from time to time). I haven't ever been dropped out of a group due to lag though. Not lately, or before.

There's been a lot of lag recently. Every one of the 140 guild members in my guild has commented on such. It's not awful, as it only has occured in towns and not instances, but still annoying. This has been at anytime between noon and midnight EST.

My first thought was also that it could be factions updates streaming in. This is unlikely, though, as according to one of the latest press release/interviews about factions, all the content is already on our harddrives. The smaller details that I'm sure are still being hammered out and adjusted prob. wouldn't cause it this bad, right? So now I wonder if it's the start of the huge nerf --err, I mean "balance"-- coming early this week. Just a thought.

well factions is coming and tons of people are buying the game so they an be like all of us and have past experience before factions and a ton of people are coming back. I've been seeing tons more poeple lately and I think thats wat causing the lag. The servers were optimized to give as much bandwidth for as low a price as possible so maybe this can also be the reason the servers are lagging. I've experienced a ton of lag but not as much as some people are saying they've experienced. anyway lets just hope for the best.

Skill changes in 3 days. Every time we get close to an update we get major lag. You download the updates while you are playing. After update it just decompresses the data and installs.

I've been getting lots in LA and Droks. I've had a few in some other places but mainly them 2. Even in the empty districts.

well those two spots are very popular and always packed and as mentioned theres also the "Great Blance/Nerf" coming so we're gonna be getitng lag for a little more but hopefully its gone by next week

all i know is when chapter 2 comes out.. im gonna play till my eyes fall out.

lol me too

Yeah, and before I knew it was happening to everyone else, I've been disassembling my network and my computers looking for "the problem"

I swear if I see another network test program on my computers, i'm going to throw one of them out the window. If you don't see me for a while, that's probably what happened.

Lion's Arch has become more and more of a hotspot over the last month or two, since Gaile and the Frog have been frequenting the international districts more often, with Factions ramping up and the PvE weekend nearing.

The lag has not been a problem in instances, when it's just you (and max 7 more people) there. It's just the towns that seem to be laggier than normal. It's annoying, but as long as the lag doesn't spill over into the instances too much, I can be patient and let ANET take care of it.