http://www.arena.net/blog/dragon
Mike O'Brien, has just announced that 2012 is the year of the dragon... the year that gw will be launching! On top of this... Beta begins in Febuary for the press... and in...
March-April for anyone else (open), hell yeah!
Happiest day of my life, I'm dropping out of college! Sorry mum.
A brand new article/announcement from ArenaNet founder and president Mike O'Brien is up on their blog:
[Edit] looks like I wasn't the first one to spot this... threads mergedWelcome to the Year of the Dragon!
Today is Lunar New Year’s Day, and according to the Asian zodiac system, the first day of the Year of the Dragon. It’s an auspicious omen for all of us at ArenaNet, as we get ready to make this our own Year of the Dragon.
According to tradition, the dragon embodies passion, independence, and ambition. We think it’s a perfect analogy for what we’re trying to accomplish with Guild Wars 2. We’re a company full of MMO and RPG fans, and we’ve set out to fundamentally rethink how you deliver an RPG experience online. So this year, the Year of the Dragon, let’s usher out old thinking – the tired old quest model, stiff repetitive combat, and monthly fees – and usher in the new.
Guild Wars 2 has captured the imagination of gamers and media all over the world with its action-oriented combat, its living world full of dynamic events, its highly personalized role-playing experience, and the handcrafted artistry that suffuses every element of the game. Last year, thousands of you joined us at shows and events all over the world to try Guild Wars 2 for yourself. This year, you’ll finally be able to immerse yourself in the vast, diverse world of Tyria.
We recently finished our first closed beta test, and we’re now ready to hold progressively larger events. In February we’ll invite select press to participate in beta testing, and in March and April we’ll aggressively ramp up the size of our beta test events so that many of you will have a chance to participate. And of course, this all leads to the release of Guild Wars 2 later this year.
So stay tuned to our official Guild Wars 2 website, our Facebook page, and this blog for more information about how to participate in an upcoming beta event.
It’s been an incredible adventure over the past five years, working with our community and our team of dedicated artists, designers, and programmers to realize this vision. This year, the seeds of that work come to fruition. We can’t wait to play the game with you.
So welcome to the Year of the Dragon – the year of Guild Wars 2.
-Mike O’Brien
ArenaNet Founder and President
Last edited by Centaur; 01-23-2012 at 03:48 AM.
So happy as I was reading this. A release year for GW2! I really hope I get into one of those invite betas, but I'm not getting my hopes up. Unless they choose people based off GW1 activity (which could be possible at some point) I don't think I'll stand out from anyone else.
What we now also know is that a release date of April is unlikely, as Mike O'Brien states March and April will be used for larger scale beta events. Not sure if this is still closed beta or if they already intend to have open beta in April. So the actual release will probably be May or June...
May/June release....finally. 5 long years... let's do this!
Hey so maybe we can restart the conspiracy theories about this picture?
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That date is definitely not out of the question
I see only one problem with those images: ArenaNet is based in the US and that is not a date in US-format. That is a normal readable dateOriginally Posted by ComplexNuber
(Should've been 12-28-6 or some other silliness)
Feeling tired? There's a nap for that.
Actually, in US date format it would be 6/28/12, but with the 28 in it, anyone can understand that this would actually fit the standard international date format better. Not so strange for ArenaNet to use that, considering their large fanbase in Europe and Asia. The real question is... is this really a date, and does this really relate to the GW2 release, or is it something completely different?
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