Guild Wars 2 finally starts to come to life

I'm hoping i still get the beta stuff from gamestop online.

The forums they link you to upon registering (which I managed on my 25th attempt or so) have also collapsed.

I know this sort of thing is typical but I thought they might have solved this srt of issue by now. Hope it's not representative of what it will be like to actually start playing!

Originally posted by jalek moye
I'm hoping i still get the beta stuff from gamestop online.

I believe that it was confirmed yesterday that you can indeed prepurchase from gamestop.com -

http://www.facebook.com/GuildWars2/posts/10150706495474209

Also, there's this -

http://www.facebook.com/GuildWars2/posts/10150707243459209

Either way, makes no difference to me, I'm going to get my keys today at work...

Dear god is this prepurchase thing a mess.

The codes weren't printing, somehow twitter decided to start sending tweets to my phone, my GW2 friends on there know I work at Gamestop...cue my phone blowing the **** up. Thankfully all is working now.

Yeah it's been messy all over (and I lost out on a £10 discount by not waiting for play.com to update its webpage. Boo!)

The associated forum mess is in part because to log onto the new forums, you need to confirm using your old GW1 account email, which for many people no longer exists, or if they started with a trial version then it will be an ncsoft.account which you cannot actually receive mails on. That has in turn become irrelevant because the forums have exploded and died- some are hoping this is because they are trying to fix the aforementioned account verification problem.

Heard a lot about the code printing issue from gamestop too. Also apparently a lot of gamestop stores had no idea anything was happening.

Scrappy day for GW, anyway.

Yeah - they never gave us ANY info in the stores about the prepurchase thing. At all. They finally sent out an email to the stores about, oh, little over two hours ago saying "oh hey by the way we're doing this, this is what you have to do." Such a mess.

Apparently the forums are down for now, or at least that's what Martin said on twitter. I obviously haven't yet registered my code, so yeah 😛

Down whilst they try and work out this huge verification cock-up, many hope!

GW and NCsoft have always had this issue where it is near impossible to change your registered email address. It was always awkward- now it is becoming an active barrier.

I'm pretty sure that that is because of NCSoft...because let's be honest. They kinda suck. Thankfully my emails for my GW accounts (though I'm only linking one) are still active.

Successfully registered my code! Woohoo 😄

Also got my digital copy of Game Informer in my email, which I only decided to read because it's got a feature on GW2 in it. I'm still reading through it now, but this was one of the pages in it...

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b267/crystalicstar/sylvariskinpatterns.jpg

<3

So I am actually hosting a contest (thanks to one of my GW/twitter friends that nabbed a bunch of keys at PAX East) to win a beta key on my site 😄

http://thepaletree.net/2012/04/11/beta-key-giveaway/

They announced on twitter earlier - first beta weekend event is next weekend (27th through the 29th).

So they sent out the emails for the upcoming beta this weekend, with instructions on how to download the client...mine just finished. Currently looking at this.

Can't wait to actually play 😄

Well, after only... 32 months since I first opened this thread, I am now less than a day away froim playing.

Hmm. I was always a sceptic about how early the release would be, but I don't think any of us expected it to take THAT long. Not that we even actually have a date yet, but I will at least get to see how it is.

I'm going to be basically camping the client tomorrow until it's 2pm and I can log in...

If you haven't run it since downloading, btw, I'd suggest doing so, because it's already had a few updates since Tuesday.

Haha, well, that's a beta for you. My experience so far has been effectively unplayable.

(for whatever reason, they opened the game some 90 minutes before it was due and I think the EU servers just exploded)

Other than the one crash I had, and some bad lag (that was apparently server-wide, judging by comments from people in my guild and other friends on that sever), I've had no problems.

Whereas GK still can't get on at all.

Spoony thing.

Also, I've come across two ANet staffers so far on my server (one threw a bucket of water at me, and another was in an event I was doing). Pretty neat 😛

I got on a tad last night in the end, but the lag was still unplayable.

This morning- new patch for the launcher and I just logged straight in. Let's see if this game works!

Also managed to transfer server.

Ok, it's working! And, so far, awesome.

What server are you on? We're on Eternal Grove. Which somehow wound up one of the most crowded NA servers.

And yes, it is definitely awesome. Having lots of people around is actually fun, instead of a nuisance!

Haven't tried pvp yet, but the PVE is pretty cool so far in my experience. Although still trying to get a handle on dodging and stuff