{"id":21792,"date":"2013-08-25T11:08:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T16:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21792"},"modified":"2013-08-25T11:08:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T16:08:19","slug":"guild-wars-2-at-the-one-year-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/25\/guild-wars-2-at-the-one-year-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> at the one-year mark"},"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\" \/>Early in 2012, I started doing some short posts using my <em>nom-de-gaming<\/em> identity &#8220;Raphia Naon&#8221; at <em>GuildMag<\/em> for the first beta weekend event of the unreleased game <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em>. 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). It&#8217;s now the first anniversary of the &#8220;headstart&#8221; period and I&#8217;ve posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/happy-birthday-firstborn\" target=\"_blank\">short piece<\/a> on what I take the liberty to call the Tyrian Firstborn: the players who pre-purchased the game and took part in the beta and stress test events leading up to launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early in 2012, I started doing some short posts using my nom-de-gaming identity &#8220;Raphia Naon&#8221; at GuildMag for the first beta weekend event of the unreleased game Guild Wars 2. 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 [&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-21792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-guildwars","tag-mmorpg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5Fu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21792","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=21792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21815,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21792\/revisions\/21815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}