{"id":13719,"date":"2012-02-24T15:41:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T20:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13719"},"modified":"2012-02-24T15:41:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T20:41:01","slug":"this-week-in-guild-wars-2-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/this-week-in-guild-wars-2-10\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Guild_Wars_2_icon.png\" title=\"Guild_Wars_2_icon\" width=\"73\" height=\"73\" align=\"top\" \/>My weekly column on news, commentary, podcasts, and videos from the <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> world is now up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/this-week-in-guild-wars-2-11\" target=\"_blank\">GuildMag.com<\/a>. This week&#8217;s column is somewhat truncated, as much of the news was being tracked on an ongoing basis in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/press-closed-beta-test-aggregration-page\" target=\"_blank\">aggregation post<\/a> that Dutch and I began on Monday and Dutch has been adding to over the last few days.<\/p>\n<p>Beta requests were approaching one million (the counter was still spinning when I grabbed this screenshot) and the site had issues keeping up:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/GW2-beta-signup-counter.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"GW2 beta signup counter\" width=\"682\" height=\"356\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/GW2-beta-signup-counter.jpg 682w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/GW2-beta-signup-counter-150x78.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/GW2-beta-signup-counter-480x250.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They extended the beta request period for just long enough to break the one million barrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My weekly column on news, commentary, podcasts, and videos from the Guild Wars 2 world is now up at GuildMag.com. This week&#8217;s column is somewhat truncated, as much of the news was being tracked on an ongoing basis in an aggregation post that Dutch and I began on Monday and Dutch has been adding to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[191,192],"class_list":["post-13719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-guildwars","tag-mmorpg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3zh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13719"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13728,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13719\/revisions\/13728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}