Quote Originally Posted by Nightingaile View Post
I always wondered why I didnt experience server down time in GW2 when everyone in FF14 said it's normal. Was beginning to think I had imagined it. Turns out GW2 sets up new servers with the new patch while the old ones are still running. New logins all go to the new servers and the old servers host the old players until they log out. So there's never any downtime unless everything has to go down. Better way of doin it imo...

Though I wouldn't expect many people in this forum to appreciate this or *any* criticism of their beloved dev team. And who knows - maybe there's some reason they cant do things the same way as GW2 servers. I'm not a server technician.
GW2's problem is they push game break bug fixes to the next update thats planned, even if they know the problem and have the fix ready. Or they did at least when I played.

There was an issue with the Ice Dragon world event that completely broke it. They had the fix in like 3 days. Didn't get deployed until a month later.