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.
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.
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.
The third and final day for ArenaNet’s Beta Weekend Event number two is now history: here’s my wrap-up post at GuildMag.
The second day for ArenaNet’s Beta Weekend Event number two went smoothly enough: here’s my post at GuildMag.
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.
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.
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).
My latest weekly column at GuildMag is now online. We’re all now waiting for next weekend’s beta event to start.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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).
My most recent weekly column at GuildMag is now online. The vast majority of links are to Beta Weekend Event articles of praise, complaint, suggestion, and regret that it’s over. The next event has not been announced, although ArenaNet had planned to have them on an approximately monthly basis until formal launch.
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