Think there will be a GWEN preview event?

Factions and Nightfall had events where you could see some of the skills and new things being released before the game was actually out. Do you think GWEN will have a similar event?

No.It clearly won't.I mean,Cmon,Why would ANet do that when they did it for Factions and Nightfall?It wouldn't make a lick of sense to do it for Gwen.

Nope i don't see it happening, though it would be cool if it did.

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Yeah, they always do the preview.

If they do like their previous preview, there should even be 2 previews

1 to test out the new skill's and an other one to go explore the lands ( well part of it anways)

probably yes, they use it to find bugs in the game or if skills are out of balance without having their testing team do it. think about it, three million accounts, if everyone logged on and played for 3 hours over the preview weekend, then that is 9 million hours of beta testing that ANET got for free. think how much their testing team would have to do to find out all that we would in that event and how much money they would have to pay.

A PvE preview would be difficult as the content is designed for max lvl.

In the NF preview you could just make a new toon and go around Istan.

A PvP preview is almost certain, right?

For the Factions preview, they gave everyone lvl 20 characters with a selection of random skills. They also let us change our secondary whenever we felt like it.

Unless ANET gives a pve preview, there is no way I'm pre-ordering GWEN.

Then again, the factions preview had us starting off with new characters before throwing us into the kurzick/luxon lands. I see three ways a PvE preview could be done:

- Let us into the areas on our current characters as per normal, then kick us out and disable any GWEN skills after it ends. This would probably see some people with GWEN armor/weapon skins that no-one else can obtain till GWEN's release, and I can see the price of even the GWEN crafter weapon skins spiking as only a limited number would get through to the rest of GW before the event ended.

- As above, but don't allow the creation of any items in GWEN specific skins. But with this option ANET doesn't get to show off the new weapon/armor skins.

- Allow us to make a clone of one of our current characters (including any items on it, with customization set for the clone on the new items) and let us roam around GWEN like that. This would probably be a more complex option to implement, and would allow people to duplicate items. So to prevent the duplicate items causing problems, the characters would have to be deleted after the preview.

They probally will have Beta events. So far i havnt seen much mention of any new PvP features, so unless Anet simply has that hidden up for now then there wont be a PvP weekend.

I'm going to go with no, because it's not a new game, it's just an expansion. As far as I know except for the skills not much is going to be new, except the terrain and a few new monsters. Besides, they have two years before GW2 comes out to iron out the kinks, so I don't think they'll bother this time round...

They might do something minor, but I don't think any preview is going to be as massive as those for Factions and NF.

I can see a pvp preview happen, because it's just gonna be skills and maybe some new maps. But since you can't make a new pve character, unlike Factions and Nightfall. I don't really know how are they going to pull it off, would be nice if they did anyway.

I've been meaning to ask, will there be any advantage to preordering GWEN like bonus items and such? And if so, is there a specific place I need to place the order?