My weekly community round-up column at GuildMag is now online. The big news this week was the announcement of a release date, which rather overshadowed any reports from the stress test earlier in the week. I had the misfortune to publish my own post about the stress test about a minute before the news broke about the release date — it’ll probably be the least-read item I’ve ever published. In addition to announcement celebrations, stress test reports, and speculation about the July beta event (the final beta event), there’s the usual assortment of blog posts, podcasts, and videos from the Guild Wars 2 fan community.
June 29, 2012
This week in Guild Wars 2
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June 28, 2012
Yesterday’s Guild Wars 2 stress test…and today’s release date announcement
I wrote about some of my brief time in the Guild Wars 2 stress test yesterday for GuildMag, but the really big news is that we’ve finally been given a formal release date for the game:
I might as well just block off the last week of August…
Update: We’ll be having the final beta weekend event from July 20th to the 22nd.
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June 22, 2012
This week in Guild Wars 2
This week’s community round-up column at GuildMag is now online. Again this week, there’s lots of footage from BWE2, mass foaming-at-the-mouth over the dye system changes, and a brief stress test to be held next Wednesday. Oh, and the usual assortment of blog posts, podcasts, and videos.
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June 15, 2012
This week in Guild Wars 2
My most recent weekly column at GuildMag is now online. Lots of footage from last weekend’s beta event, plus some new speculation about a release date announcement.
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June 11, 2012
The final day of the Guild Wars 2 beta event
The third and final day for ArenaNet’s Beta Weekend Event number two is now history: here’s my wrap-up post at GuildMag.
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June 10, 2012
The second day of the Guild Wars 2 beta event
The second day for ArenaNet’s Beta Weekend Event number two went smoothly enough: here’s my post at GuildMag.
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June 9, 2012
The Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event
I’m taking part in this weekend’s beta event with some notes posted in lieu of serious analysis over on GuildMag. Here is my initial report from yesterday’s activities.
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June 8, 2012
This week in Guild Wars 2
My most recent weekly column at GuildMag is now online. With everyone eagerly awaiting the start of this weekend’s beta event, it may be my least-read column for months.
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June 2, 2012
A new player’s FAQ for Guild Wars 2
With the (literally) thousands of beta keys being distributed for next weekend’s Guild Wars 2 beta event, there will be lots of new players who haven’t been in the game before. The folks at Nerdy Bookahs have a good basic article posted to help beginners get started in the game.
This FAQ is mostly for those who have just recently heard of Guild Wars 2 and now want to know more. If you have been following the game for years or even just months, if you have pre-purchased the game and if you have already played it, you are welcome to read it as well, but you will find a lot of information that you already know.
Since the game is still in development a lot of things are subject to change (yes, believe it or not, ArenaNet is handling the Beta Weekend Events like a real beta and is still changing things around). Also, new information comes out every now and then which might outdate what you can read here. If you notice any of that — or just errors that I’ve made — please comment (with sources if possible).
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June 1, 2012
This week in Guild Wars 2
My latest weekly column at GuildMag is now online. We’re all now waiting for next weekend’s beta event to start.
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May 31, 2012
GuildMag is holding a contest to give away Guild Wars 2 beta keys
ArenaNet distributed some beta keys to several Guild Wars 2 fan sites, including GuildMag (where I’m a contributing writer). We decided to run a contest to decide who should get our allocation of beta keys. We wanted fans to complete the joke “An asura, sylvari and a charr walk into a bar…”
The surge in traffic briefly knocked us offline. The community managers at ArenaNet noticed:
May 29, 2012
Second Guild Wars 2 Beta event scheduled
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.
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May 25, 2012
This week in Guild Wars 2
My latest weekly column at GuildMag is now online. Some disappointed fans are expressing their anger over the announcement that the next Beta Weekend Event would not be this weekend. Some leaked information through Reddit, and the usual assortment of blog posts, videos and podcasts round out the bill of lading for this week.
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May 18, 2012
This week in Guild Wars 2
My latest weekly column at GuildMag is now online. Over the past week we’ve seen lots of information from the stress test on Monday plus more articles and videos from April’s Beta Weekend Event. Now we just need to hear when the next Beta Weekend Event will be held.
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May 11, 2012
This week in Guild Wars 2
My latest weekly column at GuildMag is now online. There are still lots of links to the April Beta Weekend Event, as folks sort through their video captures to create interesting YouTube posts. The next event will be on Monday, but it’s a stress test rather than a formal Beta event (it’ll last less than a day, and it’s on a workday to boot).
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