Information on reserving your character name in Guild Wars 2has just been released.
Basically, you have until around launch day to login to your Guild Wars 1 account and any names that are active until then will be reserved for you.
Hmm how exactly does that work since GW1 has first name and last name and GW2 allows for just first name.
What is I have John Doe and someone else has John Deer in GW1. Who gets John in GW2?
That will be decided during GW2 headstart, where you’ll create a character with the same name as your GW1 character. So, you’re basically logging onto your GW1 to reserve names that you’d like to reserve later. I know, confusing. :D
Looks like some patch notes have been leaked: http://i.imgur.com/mYBht.png
The gem store has gotten a slight revamp with more stuff on it too. Screen shots of that can be found here.
Doesn’t look like there’s much optimization being added, so BWE2 will probably perform largely the same as before, but at least chat won’t suck as much now. :D
Some info just posted on Anet’s Facebook regarding their silence about the next BWE:
Many of you have been asking about when we will have our second Beta Weekend Event. As we are approaching a long weekend in many parts of the world, we understand that some of you want to make plans for that. To help you with that we can confirm that we will NOT be running BWE2 this coming weekend.
Our BWE1 was super successful, we exceeded our expectations. As some of you might have experienced first hand, this lead to some technical issues. To make sure we are not running into the same situation for BWE2, we recently had a stress test, and we are currently deploying a lot of additional hardware in our datacenters.
We will be able to tell you exactly when BWE2 will take place as soon as all the hardware has been deployed. We are not withholding a date intentionally, we want to make sure that BWE2 will be a really great experience for all of you.
I hope this helps a bit in understanding where we are standing – you all have a really relaxing long weekend! ~MK
It looks like BWE2 will either be June 1st or June 8th then.
That makes total sense. Next weekend is the first quiet weekend I’ve had in over a month. Why would anyone plan a BWE I want to play on that weekend? :)
Wendelius
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New BWE announced:
Beta Weekend Event 2 will begin on Friday, June 8th, at noon PDT (GMT-7) and will run until Sunday, June 10th, at 11:59 p.m. PDT (GMT-7).
http://www.arena.net/blog/announcing-the-next-guild-wars-2-beta-weekend
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Great! Looking forward to seeing just how much performance has improved, as that was really my only complaint:
We have listened intently to all of your feedback from our first Beta Weekend Event, and we’ve made great strides toward resolving many of the issues you’ve helped us identify. These include party movement into overflow servers, chat functionality, key bindings, server stability, performance, and many more that we will detail in the near future.
Party movement into overflow servers was mine, as I always played GW2 grouped. If fixed, it will make the experience a lot smoother.
Wendelius
JM1
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I’m fairly sure that was already fixed for the post-BWE stress test.
Nope. We had to do the exact same zone in / zone out / try again dance several times with our 3 player group during the one day stress test.
Wendelius
JM1
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Damn, that’s a shame. I didn’t play directly with friends that night - I was too busy trying to work out if I could like the thief style of play or not (answer: only with very limited weapon choices, and even then it’s ultra-fragile in PVE)
Confirmation via twitter that Asura and Sylvari will NOT be playable in next BWE.
/sad panda
JPR
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I believe they said months ago that those would be withheld until release.
Cobra
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Too many exams coming up. I’ll skip this BWE.
Wow, Anet is going CRAZY with the amount of beta keys they’re handing out to third party websites. Man, I’m going to be so disappointed if they don’t give us a release date by the end of June…
I read somewhere (and I’ll be embarrassed if it’s like 5 posts up) that ANet said they’d announce the game release at least a month ahead of time. So theorists are saying that means no June release since they haven’t yet said anything.
Damn, somehow my weeks got messed up and I thought the BWE is today. Sigh.
Too bad, Charl, I was hoping for a June release. I’d say if it’s not June, it will probably be no earlier than September - I don’t really remember any big releases happening in July-August, except for Diablo 2.
walTer
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Finally my amazon preorder came thru and I just got my beta code. Actually it is a code to all beta weekends. Hopefully it is just 1 but…no dates yet.
