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龙年快乐！

I was won­der­ing whether I came out of closet–of being a fan­boy of Are­naNet.  Look­ing back to my last Guild Wars post, the answer is yes.  Oh and, in case you won­der, this post is about Guild Wars 2 release date! (True Story!)

We recently fin­ished our first closed beta test, and we’re now ready to hold pro­gres­sively larger events. In Feb­ru­ary we’ll invite select press to par­tic­i­pate in beta test­ing, and in March and April we’ll aggres­sively ramp up the size of our beta test events so that many of you will have a chance to par­tic­i­pate. And of course, this all leads to the release of Guild Wars 2 later this year.

Source: Are­naNet blog

Any­way, I’m pretty sure I won’t be part of the “select press” (read: var­i­ous MMO news/review sites), so I’ll bet my luck on March and April of 2012… to say “bet my luck” is accu­rate since this is not an announce­ment of an open beta.  It is cleared up in this thread on GW2 Guru forum by the devel­oper guy who wrote the post: the term “open beta” is pur­posely avoid as cur­rently Are­naNet are not arrang­ing a play ses­sion open for “any­body on the inter­webs”.  The spec­u­la­tion seems to be that there will be pre­view week­ends where the game opens up a selected area for a greater audi­ence to participate.

This of course does not mean there will be no open beta (in its con­tem­po­rary mean­ing) for GW2.  It is pos­si­ble the OB will come shortly before the game releases.

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Again to show my less desir­able traits in my own blog; not rant­ing this time, but its oppo­site.  Although I nor­mally am skep­ti­cal on the qual­ity all MMO games, espe­cially those haven’t been released or received pub­lic beta.  But now I decide to walk out of the closet:  I believe Guild Wars 2, when it is out, will be the best MMORPG in its genre which the indus­try could offer at this time!  Oh and, Are­naNet, wanna get married?

Today’s focus isn’t GW2, actu­ally, but the lat­est update on the orig­i­nal Guild Wars.  It’s a shame that I only recently walked out the cycle of obses­sion on this game.  Com­pare to the pre­vi­ous update on the Dervish pro­fes­sion, the lat­est update, dubbed Des­ti­na­tion: Embark Beach has been uni­ver­sally praised and loved.  Here’s a list of things changed for quick reference.

• New out­post Embark Beach: a stag­ing area for play­ers to look for mis­sion mates for all Campaigns.
• Zaishen Daily Vanquish.
• Play­ers can add up to 7 heroes to party.
• Cash shop items that allow one to con­vert own char­ac­ters to heroes to use.
• Daily quest and misc updates in Pre-Searing Ascalon.
• More sen­si­ble Drunk­ard and Sur­vivor title requirements.
• UI tweaks such as Min­ion con­trol and “ready” but­ton in parties.

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