Guild Wars 2 Players Won’t Lose Progress After Server Restore – Update
European players of Guild Wars 2 previously complained that a rollback has occurred, reverting the situation on the servers to what it was on Friday or Saturday. Ultimately, there is no loss of progression.
Developer ArenaNet has not yet clarified the situation. The company reports on Twitter: that the game’s European servers have been taken offline for maintenance. The developer has not yet provided more details, such as how long the maintenance takes, what exactly will be restored and to what extent there are usable backups. On various forums, players report that the US servers have not been affected.
In particular, players complain about the progression lost due to the rollback. For example, a player describes that his level 80 character has now gone back to level 64, where a considerable amount of time was invested. He also got a previously deleted level 2 character back and a level 54 character that replaced it is now gone. There are also similar complaints about items made, collected and earned and payments made to obtain Gems, for example.
On Reddit, another player states that such a situation has happened twice before in Guild Wars 2, although another player says that the current rollback seems a lot worse than before; the earlier rollbacks were, in his opinion, quite limited, in the sense that it involved a rollback of a few hours.
According to one of the Guild Wars 2 players, the current rollback was almost inevitable, because according to him the servers had been very low for days, making Guild Wars 2 almost unplayable at times. There were also the necessary players who were always thrown from the servers.
Update, Tuesday evening: ArenaNet has announced that all European accounts have been restored to the situation it was last Monday at 11:40 AM. This means that there is little or no loss of progression. There may still be players who are missing items or a bit of progression, whether or not after making a purchase. The developer says to help with this after a ticket has been created.