{"id":16673,"date":"2012-08-28T10:38:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16673"},"modified":"2012-08-28T10:38:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:38:12","slug":"last-of-my-guild-wars-2-pre-release-journal-entries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/last-of-my-guild-wars-2-pre-release-journal-entries\/","title":{"rendered":"Last of my <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> pre-release journal entries"},"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\" \/>I started doing these short posts using my <em>nom-de-gaming<\/em> identity &#8220;Raphia Naon&#8221; at <em>GuildMag<\/em> during the first beta weekend event &mdash; 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&#8217;t take part). This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/raphias-headstart-journal-day-three\" target=\"_blank\">final entry<\/a> in that series, briefly talking about the last day of the headstart access period (the game is now on sale to the general public).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you weren&#8217;t following the series, here&#8217;s the entire set of journal entries from the first day of the first Beta Weekend Event:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>April 28: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/a-first-timers-view-of-guild-wars-2-the-first-day\" target=\"_blank\">A first-timer\u2019s view of <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em>: the first day<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 29: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/a-first-timers-view-of-guild-wars-2-the-second-day\" target=\"_blank\">A first-timer\u2019s view of <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em>: the second day<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 30: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/a-first-timers-view-of-guild-wars-2-the-final-day\" target=\"_blank\">A first-timer\u2019s view of <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em>: the final day<\/a><\/li>\n<li>June 9: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/raphias-bwe2-journal-day-one\" target=\"_blank\">Raphia\u2019s BWE2 Journal: Day One<\/a><\/li>\n<li>June 10: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/raphias-bwe2-journal-day-two\" target=\"_blank\">Raphia\u2019s BWE2 Journal: Day Two<\/a><\/li>\n<li>June 11: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/raphias-bwe2-journal-day-three\" target=\"_blank\">Raphia\u2019s BWE2 Journal: Day Three<\/a><\/li>\n<li>June 28: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/four-brief-hours-in-tyria\" target=\"_blank\">Four brief hours in Tyria<\/a> (stress test)<\/li>\n<li>July 21: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/raphias-bwe3-journal-day-one\" target=\"_blank\">Raphia\u2019s BWE3 Journal: Day One<\/a><\/li>\n<li>July 22: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/raphias-bwe3-journal-day-two\" target=\"_blank\">Raphia\u2019s BWE3 Journal: Day Two<\/a><\/li>\n<li>July 23: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/raphias-bwe3-journal-day-three\" target=\"_blank\">Raphia\u2019s BWE3 Journal: Day Three<\/a><\/li>\n<li>August 3: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/raphias-july-stress-test-journal\" target=\"_blank\">Raphia\u2019s August Stress Test Journal<\/a><\/li>\n<li>August 11: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/raphias-august-10th-stress-test-journal\" target=\"_blank\">Raphia\u2019s August 10th Stress Test Journal<\/a><\/li>\n<li>August 13: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/raphias-august-12th-stress-test-journal\" target=\"_blank\">Raphia\u2019s August 12th stress test journal<\/a><\/li>\n<li>August 16: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/raphias-august-15th-stress-test-journal\" target=\"_blank\">Raphia\u2019s August 15th stress test journal<\/a><\/li>\n<li>August 22: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/raphias-august-21st-stress-test-journal\" target=\"_blank\">Raphia\u2019s August 21st stress test journal<\/a><\/li>\n<li>August 24: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/raphias-august-23rd-stress-test-journal\" target=\"_blank\">Raphia\u2019s August 23rd stress test journal<\/a><\/li>\n<li>August 26: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/raphias-headstart-journal-day-one\" target=\"_blank\">Raphia&#8217;s headstart journal: day one<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>August 27: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/raphias-headstart-journal-day-two\" target=\"_blank\">Raphia&#8217;s headstart journal: day two<\/a><\/li>\n<li>August 28: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/raphias-headstart-journal-day-three\" target=\"_blank\">Raphia&#8217;s headstart journal: day three<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started doing these short posts using my nom-de-gaming identity &#8220;Raphia Naon&#8221; at GuildMag during the first beta weekend event &mdash; 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 [&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-16673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-guildwars","tag-mmorpg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4kV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16673","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=16673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21791,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16673\/revisions\/21791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}