MoonBearBush.1943

I am also with Virgin MoonBear.. i was also going to ring them and ask for a new router.. its strange because after googling i see that elder scrolls online also have this issue with disconnecting.. all over the world, its bloody kitten.. i was bloody well enjoying the PoF story and close to finishing it and then it just got too much like you said playing for 40mins to over an hour only to get kicked off .. not to mention we are gated in terms of achievements and mounts we need to go the story for ... bad game design honestly I contacted Virgin and they're giving me the Super Hub 3 (I've heard mixed reviews..._) for free, The reason I did this is to increase my speed to VIVID 350 which can only be used through the SH3 which is an extra £10 on top. I'll see how that goes. I literally done the starting mission in PoF to get the mount and haven't touched it since so I hope I don't have anymore issues in that regard. A little tip that's helped me get through 4-5 story missions on HoT, Play in Windowed mode and during NPC dialogues, move your character back and forth with Q&E and spam spells etc. This has helped me big time!! I get hand cramps but it makes this damn games Story playable somewhat.

I've managed to progress through 3 missions now and the only way I get it to work is by skipping the cut scenes and spamming attacks/moving my character during NPC dialogues. I did however still DC but the mission reward popped up so when I logged back all was good. I find this utterly ridiculous the length of effort it takes to get this game to work. I played GW back in the day and GW2 when it first came out on an alternative account never had a single issue. This seems to all stem from their expansions. The fact they have yet to pull their finger out their a*se and fix this is beyond a joke (after doing some digging it would appear this has been an ongoing issue since HoT was released not far off 3 years ago.) I've tried the VPN tactic, I'm in windowed mode already, all my network drivers are up to date along with my graphics card, rebooted my router and contacted my internet provider who said there's nothing wrong on my end (have ordered a new up to date router to test regardless, that will be here in a week), done the whole client port thing, disabled my AV and added into my exceptions list, I never run Discord in the background and I'm plugged straight in via Ethernet and still no luck. The thing is I can go hours on end when I'm off work and not have a single DC (yet to try fractals, raids etc which I'm sure will be a barrel of laughs). Another thing that just adds salt to the wound is that to even test this sh*t, I have to spend 20-60+ minutes grinding through a quest until the very end to see whatever I've changed has worked.... that is an absolute joke. In regards to chargebacks, are you saying that I can push them to fully refund me everything but I will never be able to play one of their games again on this account? Would you be able to make an alternative account and start fresh if they somehow fix this further down the line? (change email address etc.)

So I got a response stating that I was not entitled to a refund as I'd used the gems I got from buying the deluxe edition of PoF. What's ridiculous about this is I bought the game on 9th April (Monday past) so I can even use the Black Lion Trading Post properly (I believe it unlocked today) so my gems were spent on utility items (infinite picks and some other account bound stuff like that etc.) and the rest was used for some gold which I haven't used as I was waiting until I could use the trading post properly. I also bought the standard edition of HoT alongside the deluxe version of PoF. I'm rather baffled that I'm not entitled to refund when I forked out a substantial amount of money on a game that I know doesn't work properly (same thing happens in PoF) because I used the gems that came with it?! That some shady practice right there... So what I've got with my dealing of AreaNet so far is that once they have your money they will do their damn best to not give it back even though the vast majority of their game will not work. I've tried all I bloody can to get it to work like running it as admin, changing client ports to 443, 80 etc, turning off my AV/adding GW2 into the exceptions list, trying that host code nonsense that AreaNet posted as a"fix", rebooting my router (please note that I am plugged straight in via cable). I even called my internet provider Virgin to troubleshoot this and they can't see anything wrong on my end but I have requested a new router to test that out anyways. I love this game and used to think AreaNet are good folks but I'm beginning to lose my sh*t here.

Just sat and tried all of that and even changed my client ports with no luck. Going to send a refund ticket through . My money/time will better spent elsewhere. Thanks for trying to help though. Greatly appreciated.

It would appear they need to pull their fingers out if you get what I mean.. This has been ongoing since the end of last year at least and it would appear there's no actual fix for it. Just a band aid for one or two missions. My friends and I also play together (we live relatively close to each other) and I have the better internet out of us all yet I'm the one having issues with this. I'm leaning towards a full refund because the more I look into this the more it would appear AreaNet really are not interested in fixing this absurd issue.

Bought the game on Monday and have not had a single issue until I started going through HoT story mode this evening. At the end of every single story mission it disconnects me and continues to do so. There will be that one time out of 6-10+ tries that it will won't disconnect but it's getting beyond a joke now. I noticed that there's a lot of people in the same situation as me and have been for months now. The "fix" that tech support posted is not working at all. Is AreaNet looking into this or do they have any updates as I'm not the most tech savvy so I would need a dummy's guide to try other fixes (I've done basic stuff like changing graphics, rebooting my router etc but nothings worked). I feel that this a bit ridiculous just to play the story mode of a game, I'm also not impressed that this is happening after I've just forked out nearly £90. If I cannot get this to work then I hope a refund will be given. My computer specs re as follows (Windows 10); Device Name : DESKTOP-NII5JICProcessor: Inter® Core i5-7400 CPU @ 3.00GHz 3.00Installed RAM: 8.00 GBGraphic Card : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB