LowParry
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Makes complete sense. Lordy. I'm not even sure what I'm going to play. Thief is going to be my class of choice come Day 1 but....man. Everything looks really fun to play. Alt mania.
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Guild Wars 2 Press Beta [Prepurchase Is Live]
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Makes complete sense. Lordy. I'm not even sure what I'm going to play. Thief is going to be my class of choice come Day 1 but....man. Everything looks really fun to play. Alt mania.
But they said:
Sounds like they planned on Amazon having the digital pre-purchase, and they really haven't said much about Amazon since that statement, so I have no idea what they're doing.
Well all I can say is wait and see then. Why not just buy from ANet if you're doing DD?
Agreed. The more people who buy directly from Anet the less money that goes to third parties and the more they get to spend on content and expansions.
Are you referring to your account name with the numbers or your character's name?
Character's name ^^
flyinpiranha
Member
Damn, I was really hoping it was this weekend. At least with Diablo III and Trials Evo I'll have plenty to keep me busy!
But I need to figure out my PC situation, I don't want to have to upgrade but GW2 will be my game of the forever and I will upgrade my PC around it, this weekend would have been perfect for getting it together if I found I needed an upgrade. Unfortunately I have plans for a majority of next weekend. Maybe I'll cancel ..
But I need to figure out my PC situation, I don't want to have to upgrade but GW2 will be my game of the forever and I will upgrade my PC around it, this weekend would have been perfect for getting it together if I found I needed an upgrade. Unfortunately I have plans for a majority of next weekend. Maybe I'll cancel ..
Kinda up in the air at this point but my guess is when you go to make your character, if you name it Bob Is Awesome and that was your GW1 character name it will recognize it through your account link and allow only you to use it.
You've suddenly come down violently ill and have a bad stomach bug. DO IT!
flyinpiranha
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I do feel kind of queasy ....
Netrunner2k2
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For added mental effect, go look at pictures of goatse, tubgirl, and lemonparty.
flyinpiranha
Member
lemonparty, isn't that the website about how Obama is a bad president? =P
I think that's teaparty
though I could be wrongI was also hoping it would be this weekend since next weekend is also pretty booked
The amount of wanting and longing for GW2 is greater then for any other game I've played in the last decades.
ForzaFerrari
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So how about that release date Anet? We are customers, not investors.
Complistic
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That depends on how the beta tests go. They're not like other devs, they're not just going to shove something out the door just because the deadline for the game is a certain date.
cartoon_soldier
Member
Considering they want to do only one weekend beta test for pre-purchase every month...I would say release is not for another 4 months or so.
where did you get this information about one weekend a month?
BrettWeir
Member
I'll have to admit.....it would be nice to see a "Thank you for all of the people that have pre-purchased" type of message. I'm stunned that there has been no real news/communication since the 10th (besides "I know some people are having issues and were working to fix them" type messages).
This is the first time I have felt "let down" by Anet. I mean, after all......isn't PR the only reason Rubi even got a job?
This is the first time I have felt "let down" by Anet. I mean, after all......isn't PR the only reason Rubi even got a job?
Dinosaur Tamer
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It's somewhere in the FAQ and they also mentioned it on twitter. They never implied there will be more than 2 events, though. And I am still convinced the game will launch this summer.
To be fair, they said they want to have at least one a month. I can see more than one when it gets closer to release.
Warrior_Keoni
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We've taken your money and never giving it back!
Still, I'm sure there's still a lot of polish to be done. It won't surprise me if about a month before the release launch that they'll open up tons of areas and allow something like 1 full week to fully flesh it out before launch date.
You do know ANet has been doing testing of the game that most other devs do in their Betas for YEARS now right? They do that kind of testing in Alpha and EXTREMELY early so they get feedback immediately from internal and external friends & family/usability testers. It's not uncommon for them to push out 10 builds a day and they're not just shitting something out at the last minute, they've been doing real testing for years now, not months. Why do you think the game looked so damn good when they first showed it at the 3 year mark of development?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAh1OHBI4uM
That is THREE years into development, if you haven't been paying attention to other MMO development in the same timeframe, that is fucking POLISHED for an MMO at the three year mark.
Dinosaur Tamer
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While this is true and I am sure they are closer to release than a lot of people seem to think, they still got a lot to do in terms of optimization. I was able go log in during the stress test last weekend and the client performance was a mess for me and a friend who was able to log in as well. Performance wasn't even close to where it needs to with that build.
One can hope they already started with optimization and the new client for the upcoming BWE shows some progress. Because otherwise, I can't see them sorting that out in a matter of weeks.
Of course, from what we've seen/read from the press the performance varies greatly from system to system and even in the sense that people with lower end hardware were getting better performance than higher end at times. ANet did say that they optimize from the bottom up and optimization does tend to be one of the last things done in programming once code is finalized. Though with the NDA dropping, I'd wager a bet that they have optimized the client to some extent because I couldn't see them releasing an unoptimized build with no NDA and ruining all of the work they've done for the past 5 years. It would explain the need to download a new build. My guess for release is still late June and mid to late July at the latest.
RepairmanJack
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Only reason I want a release date is so I can figure out which days to take off
My same reason. Need to get my vacation time in before its all filled.
Just came to post this.
https://twitter.com/#!/GuildWars2/status/192670624815132675
At least we have confirmation now. Time to take Friday off.
RepairmanJack
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RepairmanJack
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Yeah, kind of odd. Hopefully it's more and not less than what was in CBT. Though I will be happy either way to be able to finally play the game.
Dead Prince
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probably no WvW stuff.
No way. There's no way they'll drop a major part of the game for the BWE. That's probably one of the things people are looking forward to the most, especially those who don't want to spoil the PvE content.
Dinosaur Tamer
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I am sure WvW will be in. Even the stress test had WvW.
Yeah, I agree with all of that. Let's hope the new client is at least somewhat optimized and there is no outrage over performance issues next week.
I don't think they're not going to test their mass PvP when they have a couple hundred thousand people playing...that's a waste of resources to say the least. They could get launch number feedback from that many people.
RepairmanJack
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I can't think of what they would want to take out? The gem store? Makes sense. Anything other than that has mostly been seen pretty extensively.
Maybe throw in one of the last two races?
Maybe throw in one of the last two races?
Warrior_Keoni
Member
Probably just one dungeon available and the rest unavailable wherever they are.
From a pure content perspective I agree though obviously bugs will be fixed, balance changes, optimization and whatnot.
RepairmanJack
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Wasn't there only one anyways? Just the different modes of it?
Most likely. Just odd to have a blog post on "what you can play" and not just say a blog post with the details or something else.
JustProgress
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Why? Its not like you already payed for the game or something
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