Guild Wars 2: Pre-Release Discussion

[Lucavi]

I read about it, and I am excite, because it means that each alt that I create over time will experience some new stuff.

[Qalbert]

before you get excited, it's an unconfirmed rumor

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17mq...g/original.jpg

Kotaku has obtained this photo of an advertisement for Guild Wars 2, seen at a Fry's retailer in Texas.

As you can see, the ad says ArenaNet's massively multi-player online game, which is currently in beta, will be out on June 28.

So is it legit? On one hand, retailers tend to use placeholder release dates that are often based on estimates more than reality. (GameStop, for example, says the game will be out on June 26.)

On the other hand, this poster is a little more concrete than your average game retailer's database. It's a printed, physical object.

I've reached out to Guild Wars publisher NCsoft for comment and will update should they choose to respond.

Update: Here's a statement from NCsoft: "We have not released an official launch date within 2012 as feedback from our closed and open marketing betas will help us determine an exact release date. We will release Guild Wars 2 when it is ready."

[Qalbert]

someone pointed out this photo as 'evidence'
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17mq...g/original.png
now, that could just be where they got a date for the flyer from, who knows

[Kuishen]

I fucking hope not, will still be on vacation, get back on the 30th and have to download the damn thing for 2 days. >_>

[Takiwaki]

That rumor has been around for over a year unfortunately. lol. It has been debunked many times by anet, but since it seems like it keeps reraising you never know!!

[Qalbert]

the flyer thing was new, but like I said, they could have easily just swiped it from the jersey picture.

[vrumpt]

I'd like to think that since yesterday's stress test was.. not stressful at all.. that they'll announce a release date soon.

[Takiwaki]

I'd like to think that since yesterday's stress test was.. not stressful at all.. that they'll announce a release date soon.

I am thinking they will after the next BWE, It would be nice to get Memorial day weekend and the extra monday thrown in as part of the beta weekend

[Meph]

release at end of june sounds too good to be true. my 4w vacation starts on the 25th :3

[Greedouw]

will be @ a wedding that weekend... say it aint so!

[Katlan]

before you get excited, it's an unconfirmed rumor

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17mq...g/original.jpg

looks super fake imo anyways. Wasn't that Texas Best Buy the same one that did the phony D3 release date poster also?

Also, its in black and white. There is no way a company would promote the VERY first mention of a release date with a black and white poster lol

[Purrrfect]

Looks very fake...

[Meph]

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...jpg?1318992465

[Qalbert]

http://www.arena.net/blog/reserving-...r-guild-wars-2

Ever since we announced the Guild Wars 2 Pre-Purchase program and Headstart Access, we’ve had a lot of questions about how name reservation will work for existing Guild Wars players. Here’s how it will work:
Character names in the Guild Wars universe work differently than they do in most other MMOs. Whereas in most MMOs character names are unique only within their world/server, in Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, character names are unique across the entire game. In Guild Wars 2, when a player acquires a name like Wizardex, he or she is acquiring it across all worlds. Clearly this places more importance on grabbing the name early.
Today no one actually has the name Wizardex, because all character names from the original Guild Wars were two words or more. All one-word names will be up for grabs at the start of the Guild Wars 2 Headstart Access period. But there are currently 20 million two-word names in use by existing Guild Wars players. We need a policy that allows dedicated players to hold on to their established names, while freeing up the bulk of names for the rush of Guild Wars 2 players who will come into the game at launch.

Thus our policy will simply be as follows: to preserve your character name from Guild Wars into Guild Wars 2, you must be an active Guild Wars player (more on that below), and you must create a Guild Wars 2 character with the same name as your Guild Wars character during the Headstart Access period or on launch day.
After launch day (and after we work through support tickets filed on launch day), we’ll free up the millions of unclaimed names for new Guild Wars 2 players to use.
To implement this name reservation system, we need to build a list of the character names of active Guild Wars players that we’ll reserve through launch day. We actually need to build that list a few weeks prior to the launch of Guild Wars 2.
So we’ll use the following very generous definition of active: Guild Wars players will be considered active—thus having their Guild Wars names reserved and available to claim during Headstart Access and on launch day—if they have logged into the game at least once between January 1, 2012 and the day we build the name reservation list.
We’ll warn the community before we build the list, but that’s irrelevant, because there’s no reason for anyone to wait. If you want to reserve character names from Guild Wars into Guild Wars 2, log in to the original game now so we know you’re active!
We’ll see you in-game,
The Guild Wars 2 Team

[Tonka]

Wish I had a GW1 account so I could start reserving names...

[Chrian]

it's 20 bucks on steam hop to it.

[Dragir]

OP updated with this fantabulous video.



"I played with Colin Johanson during the beta event...
...I told him 'I swung a sword' and he told me not to swing it again."

[vrumpt]

Patch notes anyone? BWE2 incoming anyone?

http://i.imgur.com/mYBht.png

Spoiler: show

[bluefan]

Finally something to quench my gaming thirst. D3 has done a decent job but at the rate it's going, I'll be bored with it in a couple weeks.

COME ON ARENANET! LAUNCH THE BITCH!

[Dragir]

LOL.