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Dutch Sunshine

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2009

GWO

W/Mo

07 May 2010 at 18:48 - 1

The May issue of GuildMag has arrived! We have wide range of articles prepared for you aswell as some fan-art, a theme remix, comedy, lore an interview with ArenaNet revealing something special.

We are very proud to release our first magazine! Please provide feedback and suggestions on our forum at: http://forum.guildmag.com

This issue's theme is The Fires of Tyria in conjunction with that we have articles about the dragons on Tyria, balthazar and the Ring of Fire islands.

This issue's content:
→ Meet the Team
A small introduction of the team behind GuildMag.
→ The Powerful Dragons of Tyria
An insight look at the dragons residing in Tyria.
→ MantleCon 2010
Missed this awesome community event? here’s a chance to
Catch up!
→ Guild Wars: Beyond
A recap of the on-going campaign in Guild Wars.
→ Balthazar: Fire and War
The story behind Balthazar and the Menzies.
→ On The Tube With Daelin Dwin
A partial sum-up of the best or funniest Guild Wars videos
found on YouTube.
→ Guild Wars 2 Interview with Ree Soesbee
Check out this exclusive interview with ArenaNet!
→ The Charr in GW2
How the Charr became who they are in Guild Wars 2.
→ Guild Wars Factions Remix
A beautiful and original twist to the Factions theme.
→ Call of the Wolf
A roman about a young woman in Ascalon.
→ Bar Jokes with Arghore
A Charr, a Norn and an Asuran walk into a bar...
→ Ring of Fire Islands
The lore behind the deadly islands.
→ Fan-made artwork by Matt Lara (Charlie Dayman)
Gorgeous artwork by a Guild Wars fan.
→ The Mirage
An insight into the economy of Guild Wars.

We are a community driven project, if you'd like to send in some of your work check out this page:
http://www.guildmag.com/submit

Cuilan

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2008

Me/

07 May 2010 at 19:13 - 2

Or we can just discuss all the same stuff here without having to visit another site or to download something.

Dutch Sunshine

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2009

GWO

W/Mo

07 May 2010 at 19:20 - 3

Yeah, all true, but our policy is to bring you news in a different manner, we are not there to go and speculate, we're there to state the facts.

Anyway, everyone has to make their own choice wether or not to download the magazine. We are not forcing you to do so..

makafri

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2010

07 May 2010 at 19:44 - 4

some people just love to be an ass... that's why this community is dying... but Im glad that somebody take the time to do this kind of stuff thank you very much downloading the magazine

StormDragonZ

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2008

New York

W/R

07 May 2010 at 19:56 - 5

It's cute... but that's all it is.

For the record, any more issues you decide to do should have much, much better editing done. Too many spelling and grammatical errors.

Dutch Sunshine

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2009

GWO

W/Mo

07 May 2010 at 20:00 - 6

I'm aware of that fact, but coming closer to this issue just did take away too much time for the most of us to actually check the gramar. For the next issue we'll surely get a better editor to check the magazine at those errors.

Beren985

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2006

Spain

Caminantes de los Planos

Me/

07 May 2010 at 20:09 - 7

Wow. I'm impressed. I wasn't expecting something of this quality. It looks really good! The design and the art are amazing, the only thing that you need now is to convince Blue to draw for you xD I had only time to skim it, I'll dig deeper when I have a little more time, but overall it looks quite good.

Good job!

Jinkies

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2008

Korea

Peace And Harmony [PnH] War Machine [WM]

07 May 2010 at 20:14 - 8

I think this is really cool and I'd like to see more.

Dutch Sunshine

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2009

GWO

W/Mo

07 May 2010 at 20:26 - 9

You'll definitly see more of us, we're already planning ahead for issue 2 and even got some fun articles done already!

lemming

The Hotshot

Join Date: May 2006

Honolulu

International District [id???]

07 May 2010 at 20:39 - 10

i think you guys should cover the monthly

But I may be biased.

Dutch Sunshine

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2009

GWO

W/Mo

07 May 2010 at 20:43 - 11

We will have PvP in our next issue, in what form, I cannot say.

Motoko

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2008

Dallas, Texas

Zero Quality [zQ] /[LaG]/[USA]/[iQ]

A/E

07 May 2010 at 20:44 - 12

Quote:

Originally Posted by lemming

i think you guys should cover the monthly

But I may be biased.

Not everybody is fascinated with hexes and seeping would with the occasional 4 eles running around lemming.

^_^ you could have just covered the march monthly and it would have covered for the april one too

Malchior Devenholm

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

The Dragon Arena!!!

Pshycho Ninjas [oGod] | Vent Rage [vR] | Zealots of Shiverpeak [ZoS]

07 May 2010 at 20:51 - 13

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dutch Sunshine

We will have PvP in our next issue, in what form, I cannot say.

Hopefully it will live to Lemming's and Motoko's expectations (Though I highly doubt it

)

Ariovist Lynxkind

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Lynxkind Atrium, Echovald Forest, Cantha

Death Bringers Union [DBU]

R/

07 May 2010 at 22:12 - 14

Have to say, it does look pretty good. Some may say it is a bit too late for GW, but I hope you guys keep it going cause it will be an interesting thing come GW2

Dutch Sunshine

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2009

GWO

W/Mo

07 May 2010 at 22:22 - 15

Ofcourse we looked ahead, and we thought that we would better build up a name now, and then go full-on towards the GW2 release. You will see us in the future, be sure of that

Oster

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2009

On a boat

Ragequit With Honor [RAGE]

Mo/W

07 May 2010 at 22:49 - 16

Pretty cool, I'm glad people are still taking steps to keep Guild Wars alive and interesting.

Darcy

Never Too Old

Join Date: Jul 2006

Rhode Island where there are no GW contests

Order of First

W/R

07 May 2010 at 23:36 - 17

Great job. I am impressed by all the work your team has done. As you know, some areas need improvement, but for a first issue, kudos.

Garreth MacLeod

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

08 May 2010 at 00:00 - 18

Nice job for the first issue. Didn't have time to read everything...yet. But I liked what I saw. I do agree a little better editing would help. Maybe a run through a spell/grammar checker would help.

Scarlett Romanov

Guest

Join Date: Jul 2005

Me/

08 May 2010 at 00:14 - 19

Better editing is needed. I actually wanted to read the MantleCon stuff but the errors made it painful to get through.

Malla13

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2009

Angeldustrial Bonsai Muffins [FFS]

N/Me

08 May 2010 at 00:31 - 20

That was way more than I was expecting it to be. Grammatical issues aside, this is really nifty. Great work. I'm looking forward to the next one.

Charlie Dayman

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2009

Trifecta Luminati [TRI]

W/

08 May 2010 at 00:49 - 21

Neat, I was wondering when this would be finished. Wasn't sure if you guys had gotten the green light form Anet. I'll have a read through this later tonight.

And thanks for putting some of my art in there.

Malchior Devenholm

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

The Dragon Arena!!!

Pshycho Ninjas [oGod] | Vent Rage [vR] | Zealots of Shiverpeak [ZoS]

08 May 2010 at 01:09 - 22

Your art was awesome Charlie!

Cuilan

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2008

Me/

08 May 2010 at 01:41 - 23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dutch Sunshine

Yeah, all true, but our policy is to bring you news in a different manner, we are not there to go and speculate, we're there to state the facts.

People speculate because they already know facts. The of facts given by such a project would be ones already told from pre-existing sites or from playing the game. One would rather speculate, debate, or such rather than rehashing information that can already be easily found.

If you want to tell jokes, tell them where there's already people, not on a small site that will be given up on.

Kerwyn Nasilan

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2007

WHERE DO YOU THINK

W/

08 May 2010 at 02:01 - 24

Interview was all I skimmed through but looks nice.

Ashigaru

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2010

Germany

08 May 2010 at 06:30 - 25

You made a very good job guys

dancing gnome

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2006

House of Wandering Souls

R/Rt

08 May 2010 at 08:08 - 26

Grats on the interview with Ree Soesbee. She gave some nice meaty answers and brought a little more information to the GW2 collection. If you guys could get an interview/Q&A each month it would obviously help hook people into reading the mag and maybe some of the other content. Over time this would keep people interested long enough for you to grow into your own comfort zone.

Good work on the layout, it was easy to read and it looked good. Using relevant concept art not only showed off the art but also helped focus on the content of the articles. The navigation buttons were cool and overall the pdf thing works, I just can't help thinking, for a number of reasons, a website would be vastly superior.

Personally, a lot of the content was just repeating things I had already read elsewhere, but with things like the Great Dragons, it acts as a good primer for people who haven't had the time to chase down all the individual interviews and sources, or simply just forgot. There isn't a lot you could do to avoid this (as there is only so much new content that exists) but if you can focus on primers for the players, particularly about topical issues, I could see this developing into something which carves out a nice little niche for itself. On that topic, I can't help but feel an opportunity was missed by choosing fire as the first issue's theme. The War in Kryta is very topical at the moment and jogging reader's memories on lore and events relevant to the Shining Blade and White Mantle histories would have been very cool.

My final comment is that an almost 40mb file is very large. If I was still on dial up this would be enough to eliminate me from even considering downloading it. If it was a web page, you could release the content at different intervals, increasing chances of individual articles being read and people wouldn't have to download such a large file to read one article. A website would also ad an interactive element to the "magazine" in the form of comments.

With all that said, great first issue guys. I really hope you keep with this, it could turn into something really good for the community.

Arduin

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

R/

08 May 2010 at 09:41 - 27

Nicely done! I wonder how many peeps are interested in reading stuff about GW1, but like you said, it will gather a crowd for when you all start making Guild 2 Mag.

/clap

Dutch Sunshine

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2009

GWO

W/Mo

08 May 2010 at 12:24 - 28

Yeah, we're going to evaluate this release for our next releases,hopefully we work out some kinks in the way! Next issue will be hosted on our private server, 2gb without datalimit.

QueenofDeath

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2009

08 May 2010 at 12:55 - 29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cuilan

Or we can just discuss all the same stuff here without having to visit another site or to download something.

Or getting trojans or backdoor viruses and the like from suspicious and/or malicious websites. (Don't go there kiddies without your parents permission)

)

Think of those links as likened to a stranger offering you candy.

Dutch Sunshine

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2009

GWO

W/Mo

08 May 2010 at 13:12 - 30

As I said in my post before yours QoD, we'll be having our private download link for the next few issues, which ofcourse will not have any trojans or other nasty stuff.

QueenofDeath

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2009

08 May 2010 at 15:35 - 31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dutch Sunshine

As I said in my post before yours QoD, we'll be having our private download link for the next few issues, which ofcourse will not have any trojans or other nasty stuff.

That's what all wolves in sheeps clothing would say as they prey on the innocent lambs.

Don't go there children you could bet bitten by the mean old wolves and get a virus or a trojan and there goes your puter and your Guild Wars game.

Plus I never liked anyone trying to get free advertisement using game forums instead of contacting the administrator and getting a banner or something and PAY for it at the top.

Dutch Sunshine

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2009

GWO

W/Mo

08 May 2010 at 16:29 - 32

I did contact JR, frankly enough, he's very supportive of our idea and you'll surely see that come back in our next issue!

JR

Re:tired

Join Date: Nov 2005

W/

08 May 2010 at 16:42 - 33

Quote:

Originally Posted by QueenofDeath

Plus I never liked anyone trying to get free advertisement using game forums instead of contacting the administrator and getting a banner or something and PAY for it at the top.

Dutch did indeed contact me, and has our full support with this project. It's a fantastic magazine, and free for everyone to enjoy.

I really don't see the logic in expecting a non-commercial community driven magazine to pay for advertising on a community forum, or shell out for expensive file hosting.

poppu16

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

W/

08 May 2010 at 22:52 - 34

haven't got a lot of time for reading this today, but a quick look at your mag is really appealing !
Nice design, lore content, interviews, even music (GW faction one, haven't turn on music on GW since, humm ... almost 2+ years ??).
And thank for that BranShew7 youtube channel, very impressive !!!

Congratz for your mag, amazing fan dedication !

Vital Spark

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2009

[WHAT]

Mo/

09 May 2010 at 05:31 - 35

Amazing job, love the design and the whole outcome, its looks like a lot of time spent on it,
keep it up.

to all bitchers : How about some f appreciation? They done it for the community and you are bitch slapping it back? Thats why no one will ever will say Gw community is worth sticking around, feel ashamed for the gaming community Im in.

Myster Grim

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

GMT -5

Band of the H A W K

09 May 2010 at 12:13 - 36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dutch Sunshine

Yeah, we're going to evaluate this release for our next releases,hopefully we work out some kinks in the way! Next issue will be hosted on our private server, 2gb without datalimit.

Thank you I am not worried about the size its the FTP server we were forced to used. Thanks for a great issue.

Wish Swiftdeath

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2007

Mo/W

09 May 2010 at 17:16 - 37

Don't usually post but that's a very pretty mag, i've read alot of the information in it before but I still enjoyed reading it. Thanks and keep up the good work

Dutch Sunshine

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2009

GWO

W/Mo

09 May 2010 at 18:14 - 38

Wow, thanks for the positive comments so far, the community is the middle of our magazine, without you we wouldnt be there. That means, everyone can contribute, screenshots, artwork, lore, fanfic, music, you name it, we have a place for it(as long as it fits in a pdf

)

Mini Lich

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2009

ToA Polish District [PAY CONS]

Dhuum And Mallyx Are Waits Play [ToYs]

N/Mo

09 May 2010 at 22:35 - 39

I, Quite Simply, could not get enough of this magazine, it is amazing that the community can do something this cool, and, to such a high standard, good job. By the way i see alot of people commenting on grammar and such, i would be willing to check over that for you, it would be nice to be involved, i have a advanced english course degree, and im english, if that helps.

Dutch Sunshine

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2009

GWO

W/Mo

09 May 2010 at 22:57 - 40

I'll keep you in mind, but so far I've got enough applications for that post, might we figure that we need more editors in the future, we'll surely check who proposed it first!

Also, I'm really glad you liked the magazine