User:Auron/GuildWarsSucksSoMuch/July Monthly Tournament

Not really breaking news, but...

ANet is pretty fucking terrible at managing their game. Scheduling two huge events on the same weekend? Hero badles double weekend is fine, but not during the fucking monthly tournament. Doesn't anyone at ArenaNet have a clue? Even the slightest?

The July mAT debacle can be interpreted two ways - neither of them bodes well for ArenaNet, and thus the player base. Does ArenaNet not know that thousands upon thousands of players in Hero Battles causes major server lag? If they don't, they have a two-fold problem; A, they don't listen to the community, ever, because this problem has been reported before on every major forum, and B, if they choose to ignore the player advice, they need to have the equivalent of Game Masters logged on to gather information. The fact that they didn't realize there was a lag issue makes me call into question their ability to gather information on the game. It's no wonder PvE and PvP are both shitfests, ArenaNet doesn't even know how to fucking ask questions, so all the changes are made by stabbing in the dark.

The second possibility is... did they know about the lag and continue with the mAT despite it? This course of action caused several guilds to fall far short of their actual skill level, being cheated out of the prizes that are rightfully theirs, solely because of ANet can't manage their way out of a wet paper bag. Their choice to let the mAT proceed to the finish shows that they're either apathetic, and don't care that they've fucked over dozens of players thanks to poor planning, or bad at coding, and incapable of scheduling a re-do for the tournament.

ArenaNet has finally attained a level of failure that dips below even average badness. They simply suck. In order to avoid inconveniencing players by forcing them to play for hours in that Russian Roulette lagfest, they should have just looked at the list of entries for the mAT and randomly awarded prizes based on that. Seriously, [qE]? [Me]? [KMD]? Average players, at best. They only finished in top 8 because the good guilds like dV, dR, and EW get shit thrown in their faces for first/second-round losses due to amazing lag issues. -Auron 10:47, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

My posts on Izzy's and Reggie's talks

Can be found here and here. Only the one on reggie's talk got attention, but nobody from ANet gave an official "I'm sorry for our astronomical fuckup, we'll try not to do it again."

Snippets of IRC chat, with PvPers discussing the July Monthly Automated Russian Roulette game

<Kiami> Lovely mAT
<Cartis^> yeah
<Cartis^> I'm amused as hell here :P
<Cartis^> Error Wars ftw!
<javauser6> best mAT ever?
<Rurik336> are people still not loading?
<Cartis^> yep =D
<Kiami> Last match six people of my team loaded.
<Spazz> Predictions are all fucking random now.
<Cartis^> Yeah haha
<Cartis^> just do mat next week ffs -_-;
<gladiator> best mAT....ever.....
<Strider> how is it
<Strider> that some teams are 0-1 playing
<Strider> and some are 3-0 playing
<deya> yea burb is 0/1/0 after three rounds and still playing
<deya> epic stuff
<Mirage> this mat is fun
<Goon`> did you play mirage
<Mirage> ya we played 8v8
<Mirage> but we were running byob
<Mirage> just incase people didnt load
<DROWNINGINMYSORROW> <Mirage> this mat is fun <-- I enjoy russian roulet too
<DROWNINGINMYSORROW> we just run 5 monks so that if 2 don't load we still have 3
<Mirage> lol
<Beo> lmao
<DROWNINGINMYSORROW> you might think its a joke
<DROWNINGINMYSORROW> But it really isn't
<langola> i think this mat needs to be replayed, this server issues are a joke
<Rurik336> i laugh so much if no one loads in the final
<langola> i actually hope the final is a no load also
<Auron`> whoever wins should have their cape lag out
<Auron`> they enter matches capeless for a month

<Lemming> jaden errored in the acid according to asp
<Polly2> ye our flagger died to crash in acid
<Polly2> then we all ran to save him
<Polly2> and monk died at stand
<Polly2> downhill from there :P

<DROWNINGINMYSORROW> here is to hoping that rawr errors out
<DROWNINGINMYSORROW> wish aFk the best of luck
<Lemming> I HOPE RAWR WINS
<Lemming> CUZ I PREDICTED THEM FIRST ON SIX ACCOUNTS
<Lemming> zzz
<Lemming> famous loaded
<Brock> no loads yeye
<Brock> best mat ever
<Mirage> we have a 1v1 match
<Mirage> monk vs warrior

<DROWNINGINMYSORROW> lol I hope we can beat rawr at vod
<Brock> 8v8?
<Polly2> 7v8 had no flagger entire game
<Polly2> fail
<Beo> rawr is like the UFC
<Beo> they play to not lose
<Polly2> we play not to err7 :(
<DROWNINGINMYSORROW> jaden error
<DROWNINGINMYSORROW> I'm actually sorry he d/c'd

<deya> sts playing nice build
<deya> two ineptitude, clumsiness, wandering eye mesmers
<deya> gg
<Shred> and they are the only 2 that load into the game

And with all these lag issues, ArenaNet doesn't bother to stop the tournament or even grace the players of their shitfestival game with an explanation as to why the fuckwit that planned a hero baddles double points weekend (which lags the servers even on good days) during a monthly tournament wasn't fired immediately for lofty ineptitude. Great job, keep up the excellent work! You definitely aren't losing players in droves for these well-executed events, ArenaNet!