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Guild Wars 2 Gameplay Footage Videos

That link is a bunch of Youtube videos showing Guild Wars 2 gameplay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfE_Xu9H1Bw

This video is just awesome. I'm pretty sure I'll be playing a Necromancer.

Guild Wars 2 Beta Announcement

For Iphone/Ipad/Droid users:

"We’ve touched on the social aspects of playing together, and the positive effect it has. How socially integrated will Guild Wars 2 be, in terms of networking and cross-platform tools?

CJ: We have a team of people that is dedicated to developing out-of-game applications for Guild Wars 2. We haven’t finalised all of the stuff they’re going to put together for release, but we have shown an official app that you can get for your iPhone, iPad or Android.

It’s an app that lets you open your guild list, and you can actually chat with your friends while they’re in the game, right from your phone, or iPad. So if you’re on the bus coming home from work and you’re like, ‘Oh, I want to team up later when I get home and go raiding’, you can arrange that for later.

You can also pull up your chat list and see where your friends are in the Guild Wars 2 world using the map. So then you can say, ‘Oh, I see you’re in that dungeon, if you give me an hour I’ll meet you there.’ I think this is something that will really help us build a strong sense of community. "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBC_ig73aMs

This is a pretty nice summary video of many of the great features of Guild Wars 2.

Guild Wars 2 finally went into closed beta. I did double check to make sure, and Arenanet did say that their beta schedule will be much shorter this time around. And if you look at videos from recent events, the game looks ridiculously polished already. They also released the last class, so a Q1 release is quite likely.

Hopefully they don't want to delay the release to let the shininess of SWTOR to wear off. Time will tell.

Wow.....reading this made me touch myself...

Guild Wars 2 World vs World vs World

An awesome interview with lots of good info...

Guild Wars 2 Interview

Holy shit that sounds pretty fuckin cool.Might even change my mind about this game.

Well the best part is, if you're into SWTOR, you should still be able to pick up GW2 and play both games. If it's even remotely close to the time requirement that GW1 was, then you should have no issue just playing it casually and still have tons of fun.

Everything I've read makes it sound like their entire goal is for players to be able to just log in and instantly find fun no matter where in game it is.

Guild Wars 2 2012 confirmed and open beta to begin March-April


Woooooooo!!!!! Only thing that sucks though is it sounds like it will definitely release when I am in Afghanistan again. I will be back from Afghanistan beginning of September. I would anticipate probably an early Summer release.

Hopefully the out of game chat system functions right off the bat.

No matter what though, I will be coordinating the guild for this game. As it gets closer to release, I will contact my folks who are planning on playing and have them start hitting up this forum and we will start working on choosing a server and all that stuff.

Hopefully by the time I get back, things will be rolling and I'll be able to jump right in and get up to speed quickly.