I started doing these short posts using my nom-de-gaming identity “Raphia Naon” at GuildMag during the first beta weekend event — partly because we needed something to keep the page active while everyone was busy playing in the beta test. I continued doing a daily entry for almost all the beta events and stress tests (I missed a few because they were scheduled at times I couldn’t take part). This is the final entry in that series, briefly talking about the last day of the headstart access period (the game is now on sale to the general public).
If you weren’t following the series, here’s the entire set of journal entries from the first day of the first Beta Weekend Event:
- April 28: A first-timer’s view of Guild Wars 2: the first day
- April 29: A first-timer’s view of Guild Wars 2: the second day
- April 30: A first-timer’s view of Guild Wars 2: the final day
- June 9: Raphia’s BWE2 Journal: Day One
- June 10: Raphia’s BWE2 Journal: Day Two
- June 11: Raphia’s BWE2 Journal: Day Three
- June 28: Four brief hours in Tyria (stress test)
- July 21: Raphia’s BWE3 Journal: Day One
- July 22: Raphia’s BWE3 Journal: Day Two
- July 23: Raphia’s BWE3 Journal: Day Three
- August 3: Raphia’s August Stress Test Journal
- August 11: Raphia’s August 10th Stress Test Journal
- August 13: Raphia’s August 12th stress test journal
- August 16: Raphia’s August 15th stress test journal
- August 22: Raphia’s August 21st stress test journal
- August 24: Raphia’s August 23rd stress test journal
- August 26: Raphia’s headstart journal: day one
- August 27: Raphia’s headstart journal: day two
- August 28: Raphia’s headstart journal: day three
