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[Frozire]

We are sorry to inform that the State of the Game stream will not be happening. We are recording it locally and will be releasing a video as soon as possible.

What happened?
To secure uptime and reliability on the stream I had two connections setup so that if one went down I could immediately connect to the other and continue the stream.

And now, it all sounds good but what went wrong? For the first 15 minutes I were attempting to connect to our stream through my connection 1, and every time we went online it would get shut down by a massive amount of requests. How do I know this was DDOS? I had prepared my ISP for this as they are a rather small company they quickly noticed the increased requests and called me within a few minutes of the first shut-down asking what was happening. Sadly they do not have the capabilities to handle this and decided to simply shut-down my connection 1.

What now?
We are, as we speak, recording this locally on my connection 2, which has not been taken down. We could have streamed it from this connection, but due to the risk of this connection getting taken down we decided to just record it locally so we get some content out of this.

I apologize to everyone, ArenaNet and Guru for this.

[AetherMcLoud]

Please make sure to ask them about the state of Eles

[Xyrkain]

Wow i did have high hopes for this even after Jonathan replied on my post about the state of the game he said come watch the stream and now this letdown... I dont know what to say.

[Spell]

is it that hard to stream it by other person that take a part in this AMA like Xeph that have set up stream and probably ready to go?

[Ruufio]

Better not take a few days to upload.

Youtube -> upload video. Takes 5 minutes.

[Khalija]

Ruufio, on 30 November 2012 - 07:47 PM, said:

Better not take a few days to upload.

Youtube -> upload video. Takes 5 minutes.

It depends on how much editing is required. Hopefully it won't be a few days worth.

Spell, on 30 November 2012 - 07:46 PM, said:

is it that hard to stream it by other person that take a part in this AMA like Xeph that have set up stream and probably ready to go?

We'll be able to have a better back-up plan next time, but since so much time had passed we thought the better idea was to get the ball rolling rather than wait longer to set someone else up to stream this round.

[ensoriki]

Does not take days to put a transcript know what im saying?

[Yagamy09]

AetherMcLoud, on 30 November 2012 - 07:38 PM, said:

Please make sure to ask them about the state of Eles

u shouldnt worry about the state of eles right now , i'd rather worry for other things such as loading screen bug ruining paid tournaments for 2 weeks so far , custom arenas /monthly tournament and stuff like that.

[AetherMcLoud]

Y U NO use youtube to livestream?

Also, editing? A livestream wouldn't be edited so the uploaded footage shouldn't be too. Faster upload > better editing. We want the info ASAP.

Edited by AetherMcLoud, 30 November 2012 - 07:53 PM.

[Spell]

Khalija, on 30 November 2012 - 07:50 PM, said:

We'll be able to have a better back-up plan next time, but since so much time had passed we thought the better idea was to get the ball rolling rather than wait longer to set someone else up to stream this round.

Could you just tell anyone from whole meeting to launch their stream and post link here for people interested to listen live. Xeph for example can stream and it would take just few seconds to launch stream. (they are part of meeting and i hope its not like curse owns license for this video and since Team Paradigm have partnership with Twitch it would all be cool)

Edited by Spell, 30 November 2012 - 07:56 PM.

[Khalija]

AetherMcLoud, on 30 November 2012 - 07:52 PM, said:

Y U NO use youtube to livestream?

Curse Network is partnered with own3d.tv, which is why we use them for livestreaming.

[Korlic]

Khalija, on 30 November 2012 - 07:50 PM, said:

It depends on how much editing is required. Hopefully it won't be a few days worth.



We'll be able to have a better back-up plan next time, but since so much time had passed we thought the better idea was to get the ball rolling rather than wait longer to set someone else up to stream this round.

Why take an extra hour to fix streaming in some capacity when you can 'take a few days' to upload a youtube video. Absolutely horrible on Guru's part and am rather upset.

Would also like to note, why are you editing something that was supposed to occur live. Why not upload the raw video so we can actually get information, the entire reason this was supposed to occur, then edit the video and replace it when it is completed?

Edited by Korlic, 30 November 2012 - 07:56 PM.

[Diogo Silva]

Considering we won't get a live stream, I'm all up for a rough, unedited upload as soon as possible.

[AetherMcLoud]

Khalija, on 30 November 2012 - 07:54 PM, said:

Curse Network is partnered with own3d.tv, which is why we use them for livestreaming.

Fair enough. But please give us the unedited footage ASAP. "A few days" is unacceptable for such much-needed pvp information.

[Khalija]

Korlic, on 30 November 2012 - 07:54 PM, said:

Why take an extra hour to fix streaming in some capacity when you can 'take a few days' to upload a youtube video. Absolutely horrible on Guru's part and am rather upset.

Because people took time out of their busy schedule to participate in this with us today. It's better to record locally and upload it once we've finished editing so that we don't further waste their time.

[Frozire]

I will make sure this video footage is ready tomorrow and possibly even later tonight. Since I screwed this up I will stay up and make sure this goes up as soon as possible.

[Xentin]

Please make sure to ask them about state of rangers

[Korlic]

Khalija, on 30 November 2012 - 07:56 PM, said:

Because people took time out of their busy schedule to participate in this with us today. It's better to record locally and upload it once we've finished editing so that we don't further waste their time.

And I made time in my busy schedule to participate by watching, which I now can no longer do. This is really all pointless anyway, as you should have tested and had backup plans already in place for something so promoted. But thats another discusion.

[DarkMortyr]

Roflmao, we dont need pro editation we just need answers ... is it really hard to understand?

[Korlic]

DarkMortyr, on 30 November 2012 - 07:58 PM, said:

Roflmao, we dont need pro editation we just need answers ... is it really hard to understand?

I think most of us would be happy with even just audio or a transcript.

[AetherMcLoud]

Korlic, on 30 November 2012 - 07:59 PM, said:

I think most of us would be happy with even just audio or a transcript.

I'd actually like a transcript more than a video. More info, less noise

[ensoriki]

AetherMcLoud, on 30 November 2012 - 08:02 PM, said:

I'd actually like a transcript more than a video. More info, less noise

This transcripts are quick and to the point.
They taught me how to read for a reason.

[Rerroll]

I also agree transcript >> full interview
for quicker and accurate information. Also easier to share.

[Korlic]

AetherMcLoud, on 30 November 2012 - 08:02 PM, said:

I'd actually like a transcript more than a video. More info, less noise

I actually quite agree. I made a post in their announcement thread on how youtube is pointless since if its not live a summary of answers is better.

[AetherMcLoud]

Also seeing as other curse sites give live transcripts of developer meetings (i.e. blizzcon) it should be possible to have a live ticker of the answers of this meeting even if the stream isn't live.

That's actually what I expected most, a live transcript ticker of the stream. I don't care for the video I just want the info as fast as possible with as little noise as possible.

[Extinction]

And that's the way the cookie crumbles.

[Kuruptz2]

will it take hours for the video to come up or?

[thelastjagaroth]

All,

Technical issues happen and this was the first in a monthly segment.

When things go wrong everyone scrambles to try to fix the issue and sometimes there is no solution to be had.

This is not the first time we have taken down a site due to us flooding to check it out.

They talked to the ISP in advance so really it is the ISP's fault.

I say chalk it up to what it is - Murphy's Law.

I am just happy to see this process starting, It is extremely needed.

Thanks GW2G for hosting it and I look forward to seeing this on YouTube.

[MazingerZ]

Khalija, on 30 November 2012 - 07:50 PM, said:

It depends on how much editing is required. Hopefully it won't be a few days worth.

Editing a livestream?  Uh, okay.

Frankly, sticking with the format and then uploading the video... how would this be any different than when technical issues occurred?

Edited by MazingerZ, 30 November 2012 - 09:55 PM.

[MarkedOne7]

There might be something they don't want us to know so they want to edit it. It sounds funny since it was supposed to be a livestream (livestream is something that can't be edited).