GW books + GW2 release date?

The "2010-2011" timeframe on NCSoft's investor materials indicated that late 2010 was pretty much the earliest you could expect. Regina has stated GW2 info will be revealed "later this year", and posts from a week ago (go look) have all but confirmed this will come out at PAX in September.

It would not make sense to be secretive for so long, then suddenly publicly spill all the beans about your game to all your competitors, and then not do anything for a long time after that. So I expect that once the beans are spilled at PAX (assuming they are), beta is imminent.

I suspect the sudden desire last week to get to 1000 Facebook fans, and the GW1 testing krewe, are to prep for GW2 testing. My guess is testing krewe people who provide useful feedback will be invited to test GW2.

That is the actual publisher of the book (I think), so I'd give their estimate more weight than say, Amazon (who says April 1, 2010). No guarantees of course.

Oh noes! The replicators have taken over NCSoft and its their evil plot to both delay GW2 and destroy the world!

I wouldn't mind a new campiagn. However, it would be hard to do that since EotN pretty much wrapped up the game.

hohohohoho we'll see. its not that i dont believe them.... actually i dontwell, we know they will attend pax, they always do. whether they provide anything gw2 is another matter.

but i will make a prediction about that. they'll reveal...a piece of concept art...that we've already seen.

That would be a bitch move.
Hope it doesnt happen,but probably will.
Something like conecpt art+small details about GW2 would be like...
Go die in a fire.

Then they'll tease us on the art we've already seen. "Do you know where this is? Oh hohohohohoho."

Guild Wars 2 will be a late 2012 game with a closed beta starting early 2012. During this period, there will be two or three open beta events, lasting one or two days each.

You will not participate in the closed beta.

And neither will I.



Hope I'm not offending anyone here.

I realise it's quite unpleasant being on the receiving end of epic amounts of truth.

hohohohohoho

writing these books is risky, what if the story turns out to be crapola? would turn a lot of players off.

I'm guessing we'll get some news about gw2 around September 2009. I def remember hearing Anet and NC Soft will be at PAX. PAX is in Seattle WA in Sept and I bet there will be gw2 news at their booths.

If Aion is any indication of how the GW 2 beta will be run, there will be NO open beta. Only closed beta's with a certain number of keys given away. When all the keys are gone and you'd like to participate in the closed beta, you will have the option to PRE-ORDER the game and you will have access to all closed beta's.

Oh, well since you seem to have all the answers, we should just stop speculating and let you tell us all about GW2. Oh wait, even Anet won't talk about this stuff...so you're not actually in anet, and you really don't have any answers.

The timeline to release GW2 says 2010-2011. Anet has said a beta (dont remember whether it was open or closed) will be much closer to release, that there will be a big "splash" of information very close to release. The big splash is cited as a reason for being very obscure in GW2 production, and meant for PR. Personally, I cannot reconcile a GW2 release in 2011 with a "big splash" in September 2009, it doesn't add up to their original intent.

And like the post above, the 1 concept art showing at PAX won't be the only thing... they'll also inform us officially about the book comming out next year, Guildwars: the Fall of Ascalon...big surprise.

my thought on pax is we will see lots of aion maybe something on the book and something they will implement in guild wars coming right after that date wont that be around one of their quarterly update time. dont think well see any gw2 news yet

Well Guild Wars 2 was announced on Mar 20 2007 and supposedly Utopia (campaign 4 was cancelled sometime before the GW2 announcement). Just trying to put 2+2 together here, they probably have already 3 years of GW2 developement under their belt. My guess if they show GW2 at PAX this year then there might be a good chance we will see GW2 at the end of 2010. So that would mean 4 years of developement, anything over 4 years I think they would be hard pressed for financial support since they do the f2p model. Then again, it really is anyone's guess.

Sure, hype a game that won't come out for another two years. In fact, show enough content for that two years so that a couple months into it, no one will care about it anymore. Most companies actually market and show their game, the year it comes out. I hope I don't need to list any examples.

Aion will more or less bomb within a couple of months. Not because I think it will be bad, just because there's only room for one alpha-dog pay-to-play mmo in the marketplace, and I don't think Aion will have what it takes to dethrone the current champion. GW2 information will probably come gushing forth a couple of months after Aion has been released.

you might be right if aion is a flop but if its a hit id bet gw2 news gets put on the shelf

Aion is set for September 25th if Eurogamer is to be believed. It's your classic "back to school" release window everyone will be using. Good for word of mouth promotion, but tough season to compete and especially tough to keep players when they hit the 3-months grinding wall right around X-Mas and people buy all those other great games.

If D3 can really cut into the market remains to be seen. D1 and D2 were very much games most people simply played once for the story. If more than 10% of D3 buyers really dig into the endless leveling, the loot grinding and the Nihgtmare/Hardcore modes, I'd be surprised. Hellgate is a good example. It sold almost 1.5 Million copies and people just did not stick around for a subscription. Flagship would have been in a good position had they not made themselves financially dependent on the subscription revenue.

GW2 on the other hand will neither be up against Aion, nor D3. GW2 is far more complex than D3 and that alone is a dramatic shift in target player, even if both are "fantasy RPGish". Compared to Aion, GW2 will be the new, even more shinier object including ultra competitive pricing. We also have to consider that NC might not even expect each Aion player to be "bound forever". Many MMO developers are just fine with people playing for 6-10 months. By then those players will have spend up to $175 on the product, which is more than most fps developers can say about their customers.

Quit worrying about how long it will take. You should all know.

The longer it, the better the chances of the game being something turely amazing. Or do you just want it to end up like Call of Duty, reskin after reskin.

Instead you should be asking why they aren't adding new maps for pvp. Where's the straight up Deathmatch mode for pvp? *no npcs*

Guild Wars 2 doesn't exist.. What're you talking about?
One moment... Pulls out flashbang pen