Chance.2346

Thank you so much for the transparency behind this posting. I think before ANYONE throws shade at Anet or AWS they should be required to read and understand this posting. I've created and run large databases and networks (not Anet traffic levels) and your willingness to share with us what happened, what went right, what went wrong, and how the future will be better because of it was tremendous. Thank you for everything you do to keep our play time fun and consistent. I felt your pain with the "restoring is a different matter". Thankfully, you don't have much practice at restoring. That's a good thing!

I think most or all of us lack the knowledge of the back end infrastructure, how many physical processors/cpus/servers serve each "map" and if separate instances are on separate servers/cpus etc to try and backseat design the GW2 environment. I'm glad they are taking some steps to measure metrics with some relatively minor changes to see if it's a direction they can work in or they need to work in another direction. Likewise, opening more instances may or may not help, depending on the back end structure. This is what Anet's engineers are there to do. We do our part by sharing our experiences, they do their part by asking, listening, and measuring more objective metrics. Thanks Anet for giving a shot and seeing what might be causing the issue.