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The person saying "I can't wait to see the reaction tomorrow..." to me makes it feel like it's more of a surprise of some sort. A release date or the open beta (unless it's announced to be this weekend.) wouldn't be 'surprising' it would just be fucking awesome.
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Is it possible to visit the different cities of different races?
Example, I just watched the Yogscast Charr video and they visit the Black Citadel. Could I travel there as a Norn/Asuran? etc.
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There was a Norn in that video
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Lions Arch acts as a hub for all of the races to come and travel between the Asura gates. They want people to be able to play with their friends from the start of the game despite their race ingame. So basically anyone can go anywhere.
I'm assuming Lions Arch is the main hub, I'm not 100% sure though. It's just how it was used in the books.
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I think that's what it's going to be...I doubt it would be another public beta. It makes me wonder why they didn't allow them to play as Sylvari and Asura. I think they are leaving that to the public beta for us to play :) I'm so excited I cannot wait to hear this news!
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Yes, one of the videos has a human browsing Hoelbrak (home city of Norns).
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Are there factions? I didn't play the first, and didn't see a section about them anywhere.
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I really hope they don't give us a 'weekend only' beta event thing. I want to be able to play for weeks on this beta and test out everything. Of course I don't mind them setting limitations to it, but I just don't want to play for one weekend. Let alone have to wait my turn to play that weekend and that would be a killer for me.
What do you guys think they will do about giving out beta access? You think it will be tied into people who play GW1 by year? How about it's just chosen by our computer specs? Or maybe just random via registration? It would be nice to gain access by our GW1 purchase date because (I for one) got the game a few months after release :)
/rant
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There aren't any major factions like in most MMOs. Instead 3 worlds/servers are to compete against eachother in WvWvW.
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Yes but they aren't called 'factions', the three Orders that you can join are The Order of Whispers, The Vigil, and the Durmand Priory.
It explains them in more detail on the Guild Wars 2 Website. under the section labeled, The Orders.
You meet the Order of Whispers in GW1. The Vigil is in the book The Ghosts of Ascolon.
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Vigil clear winners.
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I think that the weekend only event would work best for everyone. It would only let people go so far with the game and people will have time to get every profession to a reasonable level in that time then play whichever was their favorite in the release.
And I don't think letting people in beta based on their GW1 purchase is a smart idea at all. ANet are obviously trying to appeal to a larger audience with the game and seeing as they aren't similar at all there is no point in inviting GW1 purchasers first. If they are going to have a beta everyone should have an equal chance of getting in.
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Although I do agree on both points, I must say those are not the actions I would like to see. First off not everyone (including myself) will be able to play as much on the weekend. Then it would just give you killer excitement for the game even more thus making you want to kill someone for their beta weekend. I will also hate it if they choose random people for beta because (like everyone) I want to play ASAP! Hearing/watching other people play while I have to wait for my chance (I have bad luck) would really suxor. I think I'm just selfish at this point, but I don't care! I LOVE GUILD WARS 2!!!
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I'm not going to get much sleep tonight... :\
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I would love to play it now, but it would be pretty boring without a few friends to play it with. That's why I'm hoping that instead of doing some random keys they just leave it as an open beta for the weekend.
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Now that I will accept, but maybe they can extend it to atleast one week, or maybe two weekend events? It's a good way to test out their servers to see if they can handle the load. The longer they have the beta open the more bugs/issues we find and report for them to fix!
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Quote from GW2Guru Forums:
"A beta means all development process is done, only polishing is left. This is the case for all games. Only remaining development is things that need to be developed to fix things after going into the beta. An alpha is where testing is going on during development. A beta is testing after development.
Remember folks, the press beta was still under the NDA. That is why this version of the game doesn't have the new energy replacement and the Sylvari/Asuran starting zones. We haven't seen that yet, and ArenaNet hasn't showcased it. That is why they are unplayable. It's because of the NDA, not because they aren't complete.
In fact, I'd be surprised if the press beta was the most "up to date" version of the game."
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I don't think you're aware just how much GW1 changed from the beta weekends to release date.
UI/Skill acquirement/tons of skills/etc changed completely, to name a few.
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Generally alpha is when a game is playable, it's when all of the things that the developers wanted are added. Beta is where the game starts to get polished and balanced, as well as tested by a wider selection of people to see if they like the game, it's also very possible that during beta they will completely redo/add/remove skills, stats, features, UI, basically anything based on the feedback they get. The following games are all in beta and they've all had many very large changes done over the duration of their beta; Tribes: Ascend, Dota2, and Natural Selection 2 (I'm sure there's others but these three I have witnessed the changes first hand).
That's just ideally though, many companies use the term "beta" as "demo", where the beta is basically completely finished and there is almost nothing the company is willing to change completely.
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More complete cookie.
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I wonder what the surprise could be. Beta sign up perhaps?
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If there was a pessimistic rating, you'd have to spam me with it
GW2 announced as F2P title
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No obviously I am not aware! But aren't those the same thing as just 'polishing' up the game? Instead of creating new things? Skills are a given because those are always being changed/added.
Isn't that exactly what I just said?
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Also that second part was a quote for GWguru forums
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probably gonna go warrior when this game comes out, cleaving with a greatsword sounds pretty awesome
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They don't want to have a free to play model. The initial purchase is the primary amount of funding they get and they want that drive to release expansions in the same way. That's what was successful about GW1. And the stuff in their item shop are supposed to be raw cosmetics and rather benign things, so they shouldn't expect a monthly payroll from that.
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Just don't play like this guy:
(I think I saw him Evade once)
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Anet knows what' they're doing. Bringing in more players with the F2P after purchase benefit and also having the ability to obtain those cosmetics. They're so nice to us ^^
I can only imagine what they plan on putting in the CE or how much it will be!
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I just want to preorder this game right now!
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Does anyone know the name of the music that plays during the character creator?
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Which one because I think it goes through a playlist? Also may be difficult to find the name until a soundtrack is released. I think it's all composed by Jeremy Soule if I'm not mistaken.
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This should be it I think. Though, it's just a generic name due to it being unofficial and all that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkhvw4OU45s
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BETA SIGNUP!!!!
https://beta.guildwars2.com/dxdiag
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Get signing up!
https://beta.guildwars2.com/
Edit:
Damn beaten to it!
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THIS SUCKS I'M AT WORK!!!!
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500 - Internal server error.
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Yep had a feeling this might happen, submitted just in time.
Also, they seem to be watching us. https://twitter.com/#!/shegeekshow/s...172800/photo/1
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Fuck yeah
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403 - Forbidden: Access is denied.
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Managed to submit my hardware info but it went down again.
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Lol, I wonder how many refreshes they are getting per minute right now.
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Got to the next page, can't submit these details either.
DONE
In before I'm excluded because I'm not in a clan/guild or something
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"Sign up now for a chance to participate in one of the upcoming Guild Wars 2 beta events this spring."
Probably means that the events will be weekend only and that the beta starts this spring!
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yessssss it worked, now all i have to do is wait.
wait.
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Anyone else having problems with the Facepunch reply page? It just goes blank until I refresh it about 5 times.
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