Event Update: A small delay

and my pirate king closed beta has ended aswell as nothing left on my ps2 till next month so was realy looking forward to this.

anybody notice that gaile said it wouldn't be sorted before 12gmt which is 1bst,and yet the new countdown on main site is counting down to 10bst(3 hours earlier).

gaile, can u please report as soon as u're able to if the 12gmt is optimistic or a realistic expectation? ty

it now says 1 day and 21 hours if that really is the case they might as well move it up till next friday :/

wow!now the countdown is saying almost 2 days,wth?.

Maybe thats because we've gone over the time it said and it's math has got all messed up?

Looks like it's no sleep for Anet :/

Hey, there,

Just checking back with you. There's not a lot to report, but what there is to report is positive. The programmers are looking at the file now, which means they've received the full backup and can do a check to see what was off with the later build. No ETA on completion, but good news that the archive is in their hands, and they're continuing to work on it.

Once again, we apologize for the delay, and will have things going as quickly as possible.

well.. to keep everyone company, im gonna post up the skills that I managed to transcribe before I got booted :P

Warrior, Ranger and Mesmer skills were the only ones I could get down, so, yeah :P Have a look around the individual forums of these three professions for the threads.

Damnit, my master plan failed! I told my mom I was sick, just to play Nightfall..

Thanks Gaile, I may be at work but I still appreciate the work your doing and the time you've taken to update us with what's going on.

Where is this countdown you speak of?

Cant find it.

It's really good to see people still smiling, you'd expect most people to get all hissy and say bad things about ANet, have a cookie everyone!

Shhh there's still time yet. Its 09:30 here so either people are just going to bed or not up yet.

Soon there will be hell to pay, I tell ya!

No, I dont have anything better to do than hang around here, untill someone tells me where that countdown is and I can glue myself to that.

Mmm... cookie. Well, this certainly was a bummer, but lucky me, it's just irritating. I thought the Preview was starting at 12AM (11AM my time), but apparently it was 12PM. So even if it starts at 4AM my time, It's still over 6 hours early.

Woo~

countdown is on the main page of the english euro site,not sure about the american page as i have never noticed a timer there.just watch the rolling banner for the countdown.

http://eu.guildwars.com/

Just wait untill the flash-movie on the banner has ended, still 1 day 21 hours to go XD

I applaud A.Net for not being just another "only the deadline matters" company, and bothering to fix the error instead of making us suffer a bugged event

Indeed. They even may extend event because this mistake.

no new char slots,
but you can create a new preview account

anyone anywhere can play the preview - no existing GW account is required

But Neither Gaile nor anyone else has answered whether or not the time will be extended to compensate for the delay.


BTW 12:00 am is midnight and 12:00 pm is noon, just to let you know for future reference.