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Blog post about the beta is up.

http://www.arena.net/blog/the-beta-weekend-event-is-coming

I hope by "next week" they mean EARLY next week for the beta client. Cause we'll need the time if their download servers crumble under pressure like their servers have done both on pre-purchase day, and on the post of this blog.

Blog post about the beta is up.

http://www.arena.net...event-is-coming

I hope by "next week" they mean EARLY next week for the beta client. Cause we'll need the time if their download servers crumble under pressure like their servers have done both on pre-purchase day, and on the post of this blog.

My guess is they will stagger the e-mails so that it's not a huge smack to the servers. Probably send out 3 waves of e-mails (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday). The thoughts being Monday will be done by Wednesday, Tuesday done by Thursday, Wednesday being Done by Friday giving everyone equal chance to get ready before logins become available.

I haven't got my email yet, so i don't know what it says. But if it's telling you to go to the beta forums or your account page you wont be able to cause, as predicted, the site is hammered.

The direct link to the client still works though: http://cloudfront.gu.../client/Gw2.exe

Wish I could get into the beta, I've been looking forward to GW2, but with how much is being changed I am unsure whether or not I will enjoy it like I did GW1 (it's like me comparing D2 to D3, I find D2 even today much more fun than the D3 beta supplied), so I'm really on the fence about GW2, and yes I know beta tests are about bug testing and all, but I am not going to prepurchase to get into the beta's if I cannot first try the game. They should do like Path of Exile did, open beta weekend to EVERYONE who wants to try it out, then pre-purchases get guaranteed beta access (even if it's only specific times of availability).

I guess they are sending out the link to download the client in waves? Because I haven't gotten an email yet either. And there is no client to download in the account section.

The link is to a forum post which results in:

"502 Bad Gateway

nginx/1.0.15"

I got the email about an hour aho.. Download is ~20gb (Im at 7gb and 36% done). Im using the client Black linked

I got the email about an hour aho.. Download is ~20gb (Im at 7gb and 36% done). Im using the client Black linked

The percentage is based on how many of the (~200,000) files you've got so far, not total size. The client(for this beta event atleast) is 12.7GB.

After reading the page again, it sounds like the beta will be open to everyone on a first-come first-serve basis with pre-purchases getting reserved slots, anyone that can confirm that?

Which page are you seeing this? I know my e-mail (I pre-purchased) said my slot was reserved. I was under the impression that it's invite only not first come.

For those wondering, the forums are back up.

Uhm, yeah. It's downloading at 100kbs. :rofl:

I'll wait until off hours to try to download it.

The client doesn't report the proper download speeds. I was pretty much maxing out my mere 10mbit/sec(1.25mbyte/sec) connection the whole time and it never said more than 400KB/sec. So yea, use some kinda app to see what speed you're really getting.

Which page are you seeing this? I know my e-mail (I pre-purchased) said my slot was reserved. I was under the impression that it's invite only not first come.

For those wondering, the forums are back up.

http://www.arena.net/blog/the-beta-weekend-event-is-coming

It says:

We?re counting the days until the first public

Guild Wars 2

Beta Weekend Event, which begins on

Friday, April 27, at noon PDT (GMT-7) and ends on Sunday, April 29, at 11:59 p.m. PDT

(GMT-7). Hundreds of thousands of players from around the world will get their first taste of

Guild Wars 2

?and rest assured, we?ll be playing alongside them!

There are a couple important things you need to know about this Beta Weekend Event:

Bolded plus the last line, it says the only way to guarantee your access to the event is to pre-purchase, which implies you can get access without pre-purchasing....plus I do not think "Hundreds of thousands of players" will fully pre-purchase GW2 without being able to try it first, makes much more sense that those numbers would be the expected amount of players that get on the beta period.

Maybe it's wishful thinking, but some parts of it are worded in a pretty confusing way, so I was just wondering if anyone had any more details.

http://www.arena.net...event-is-coming

It says:

Bolded plus the last line, it says the only way to guarantee your access to the event is to pre-purchase, which implies you can get access without pre-purchasing....plus I do not think "Hundreds of thousands of players" will fully pre-purchase GW2 without being able to try it first, makes much more sense that those numbers would be the expected amount of players that get on the beta period.

Maybe it's wishful thinking, but some parts of it are worded in a pretty confusing way, so I was just wondering if anyone had any more details.

Everything I've heard was:

There was >2 million beta applications

Beta Invites go out on a per-beta basis. Meaning just because you get in one doesn't mean you get in the next.

It's invite only

Only guarantee is to pre purchase (like I did).

Everything I've heard was:

There was >2 million beta applications

Beta Invites go out on a per-beta basis. Meaning just because you get in one doesn't mean you get in the next.

It's invite only

Only guarantee is to pre purchase (like I did).

Okay, that's what I thought but my friend thought it was more of an open beta.

The beta is for those that have prepurchased and received special invites only. It's not open.

Rumour going around is that almost 200,000 people prepurchased the game.

Only 200k? That actually seems low.

Maybe a lot of people are waiting for an actual release date before committing money to the game though?

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