Guild Wars 2 Release Date Announced

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday June 28, 2012 @02:30AM from the once-more-unto-the-breach dept.

New submitter Woldry writes "After five years in development, Guild Wars 2 has been given a launch date: August 28, 2012. ArenaNet's aim is to provide 'a living, breathing online world that challenges convention, that's designed for fun instead of grind.' There's a beta weekend planned for July 20-22 for those who have pre-purchased the game (and for those who have gotten legitimate beta keys in advance)." Rock, Paper, Shotgun has a good write-up of some hands-on time during one of the earlier beta weekends, saying, 'Time after time, Guild Wars 2 impressed me with just how carefully no, how smartly everything has been thought out. Those things that annoy us in other games are simply banished here.'

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Really? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-28 02:38 · Score: 5, Funny

"Those things that annoy us in other games are simply banished here."
There are no other people?
Re:WOOOOO! by samazon · 2012-06-28 02:50 · Score: 4, Funny

LOL the irony here is that the crafting (and cooking) is my favorite part of gw2 so far.

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