Guild Wars 2 finally starts to come to life

Well now to just wait and pray

Yep! Don't know when the next beta event is going to be, so no idea how long it'll take for them to let people know they've been chosen.

Probably a good idea to check out the FAQ on it though:

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/game-faq/#fifteen

Particularly the part about the fact that they'll be holding people to a very strict NDA. Can't even say you're a part of it if you're chosen. And you can bet we'll enforce that here too.

damn, that is pretty strict. There goes my hopes of bragging on the net

Breaking NDAs just happens to be one of my favourite past-times.

Well, signups are over...they hit just shy of a million signups in 48 hours, looks like.

Edit: Or I guess they decided to leave it up until they hit a million 😂 Really close, so probably will be closed within the next hour.

I did manage to sign-up. With competition like that though, I doubt I'll be selected.

w00t

I wouldn't say the numbers will count you out, though. We still don't know how they're going to do the beta events after all, and I know they've been saying that they need a wide range of systems for people to test with just to see how the game will run on various computer setups.

Still, I'm not sure anyone was expecting that many people to sign up that quickly.

So, today there was a press release given out, with two bits of info that are of interest.

1) At peak signup time, they had about 4,000 people a minute signing up for the beta. Wow.

2) The next closed beta event (which we all were signing up for) is going to be in late March, and it seems that they particularly want to look at stress loads on the servers.

Now...that's interesting, because stress testing is usually one of the last steps in testing a game. I know the TOR stress tests were within about a month of the game releasing. I'm not saying GW2 will be coming out in the next month, because I'm sure there's some things they need to do stress tests on a bit earlier than the rest to make sure it'll work properly (like WvW), but...still.

So yeah. Yay, stuff!

http://www.arena.net/blog/play-your-way-jon-peters-on-traits-and-attributes

Attributes and traits, fun stuff.

https://buy.guildwars2.com/

Hell yes, collector's edition! 😄

That's pretty pricey but totally worth it. I don't know what to do

I'm getting it.

There's no way I can pass all that up 😛

The Digital Deluxe version looks crappy- significant extra money for some trivial in-game items? Pfft. Either go basic or the whole hog, I say. I'll go basic.

YouTube video

Yeah, that one's been going around for a few weeks now. It's fan-made, not official; still damn awesome, though. There are some really cool fan-made videos like that. I made one myself, even 😛

http://www.arena.net/blog/building-community

Not really any actual game news, but if you're at all interested in the community aspect of the game (which I am, though normally I'm not a social gamer, I've kinda carved myself a place in the GW2 community), it's a pretty neat read.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/twilight-arbor-dungeon-pcgamer-preview-t31854.html

Summary of a high level sylvari dungeon. I see myself playing through this one frequently.

http://www.arena.net/blog/the-evolution-of-narrative-in-personal-story

Some stuff about the personal stories.

Golem fighting is involved if you're an asura, apparently.

Another beta this past weekend, which means another huge amount of info and articles being released right now:

http://www.guildmag.com/guild-wars-2-beta-aggregation-page

The embargo just dropped a couple of hours ago so more will be added throughout the day.

Also, I've been given a really awesome opportunity, with regards to GW2, so I may have some really cool stuff to post in a few weeks...

Registering after pre-purchase has broken almost immediately.