Bad news for Guild Wars 2 players. Due to a serious bug with soulbound items, the developers had to pull the emergency brake and perform a complete rollback.
A rollback is quite a grim piece of news for all players of MMORPGs, as the dreaded term refers to nothing less than the invalidation of all game progress within a specific timeframe. The servers are reverted to a time when everything was fine. Such drastic measures are unfortunately necessary when particularly stubborn bugs and errors occur.
But what happened in Guild Wars 2 that made such a rollback necessary? The error clearly lies with the soulbound items. These were bound in massive quantities to the wrong characters since the update on August 23 and caused a gigantic chaos! The problem could only be solved by the developers pulling the plug and performing a rollback to the pre-patch status from August 23. This means that all game progress since the patch was for naught. In the official Arenanet forum, Arenanet CEO Mike O’Brien commented on the issue and apologized for the significant inconveniences. However, there was (still) no mention of any compensation.
Mein-MMO says: Rollbacks are terrible and no developer resorts to such measures lightly. And despite all precautions, mistakes can always happen. However, a small compensation from the developers certainly wouldn’t be wrong. But what do you think? Do you have understanding for Arenanet or are you massively furious about the rollback? Let us know in the comments!
