A happy bit of news to wake up to — if you’re a Guild Wars 2 fan — is that the weekend of June 8-10 will be when ArenaNet will be holding their next beta event:
Your participation is even more important when you consider that we take our beta events very seriously in terms of our development strategy. At ArenaNet, “beta event” means exactly that — it’s a development-centric event in which we test our systems, discover new and exciting bugs, and get pivotal feedback from our testers about what is going in the right direction and what isn’t.
We have listened intently to all of your feedback from our first Beta Weekend Event, and we’ve made great strides toward resolving many of the issues you’ve helped us identify. These include party movement into overflow servers, chat functionality, key bindings, server stability, performance, and many more that we will detail in the near future.
The party mechanic and the chat functionality were both bothersome bugs that I encountered during the first beta weekend event, and I’m happy to hear that they’ve addressed them along with others that I didn’t see.
To take part in the beta event, you need to have a beta invitation or to have pre-purchased (not just pre-ordered) Guild Wars 2. You can pre-purchase a license from the ArenaNet website or from authorized retailers. ArenaNet will also be giving out a limited number of beta keys through their Twitter and Facebook accounts.
