Art Book !

I hold in my hands "Art of Guild Wars" the book that comes in the Guild Wars Collector's Edition. It's gorgeous. It's hard cover - 6.75 x 9.75 inches. The cover is a full-colour print of an Ascalonian wall mural, which is printed on a matte surface with a really nice feel to it. The bottom 1/3 of the front cover is glossy white, with the words "Art of Guild Wars" sort of "cut out" of the white through to the piece of art beneath. The side seam is a continuation of the art, with a small glossy white "Art of Guild Wars" printed on it. The back is the other half of the wall mural.

*sigh*

I really think you guys are going to love this book.

Wow, I can't wait for the 28th!

Any chance we can see a few scans of the book as a teaser?

Great! Its really neat to see the final pieces of Guild Wars come together..
Thanks for the heads up Gaile

Oh, a scan just wouldn't do it justice, you know? It's like a copy of a print, and I don't want to risk it looking poor.

I'll see if we can get a nice bit of art showing the cover design, though!

Wow! I can't wait to recieve my...

*breaks down and cries*

Tsk, should have waited for the collector's edition.

That's a cheap pop Gaile. You better add to it and say Rodgort is in it. :P

Ehe I can't Wait! I hope a $20 bill accidently slipped into the blook while you were putting it into my collector's edition How about we get our bookz autographed by you Gaile? or maybe the artists who drew em? be awsome!


I can always dream

autographed artbook by guildwars' team would be nice...but if i were to autograph(by hand) every single artbooks in collectors edition....my wrist would be burning tired

just cant wait till get my hands on that collectors

Sounds neat, but sadly I would only look at it once then put it in my closet somewhere. I felt it would be a waste of money so I will be skipping the CE.

Gaile, you've failed to sell me the collectors edition because of the art book...



...I'm already getting it! How about the music? That's a big thing for me.

Hmm, sounds very tempting...

Maybe I should upgrade my preorder when I go to EBgames at release...

Hmm, anything else to whet our appetite?

I feel with you............................................... ........thanks for making me feel even worst about not waiting for the collector's edition Gaile

Sorry if it has been said somewhere, but how many pages is it? Any rough estimations or exact numbers?

Nevertheless I know I'll enjoy it.

I didn't pre order cuz my mom hates internet purchase so i went to my local Hong Kong stores and guess what the preorder is worthless, it costs 80HKD
(10US$) to buy the preorder box, just the item.... and it doesn't mail it to you or reserve a copy, but when you buy the game it will be discounted 50HKD so basically ur buying the item for 4 US$ and your not allowed to buy collectors edition with the discount..... So im lucky to not preorder and now ill buy the COLLECTORS EDITION WOW YEAH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guild Wars has some of the best art out there. Can't wait to see some of the original art that Arenanet's artists created for this beautiful game.

I ordered Collectors Edition the other day, should be arriving anytime now...

Actually it will arrive on or after the 28th. You might get the preorder anytime now, but the CE isn't out until the 28th.

Though I pre-ordered the day it was first available, I had no problem at all upping the ante to CE. Though I did consider just buying both so I could have two accounts.. but that's just excessive.

Oh Gaile, you're such a teaser! You left the most important bit of information out - how many pages has the book?
(I realy hope less than 50, so I won't feel so bad that I don't have the money for CE :P)

Oh, ahhh, page count! Dang, it's at work -- cause I'm having the entire dev team sign it -- and I'll have to give you that info Monday. It's not a fat book, not an inch thick or anything, but it feels proportionate, if that makes sense. Oh and nice paper stock, too, nothing cheesy and flimsy.

And guys, I'm not talking here to try to sell the CE. I just wanted to share how excited I was about the book.

As to music, well.... We got a bunch of tracks in recently from Jeremy Soule and oh, dear lord, there is one that Andrew found. He said we all had to stop what we were doing so we could listen. We stopped and listened. Looked at each other. Listened again. Looked at each other and just beamed. I don't know if Jeremy is going to name the tracks, but this one deserves one incredible name if he does. (Track 14 in what we have, but I don't know where it will end up or even what it's intended for just now. It's somehow mystical sounding, with a touch of the sublime and reverential.)