Guild Wars 2 : Launch date set for August 28th

Jun 28,2012 - by 7

ArenaNet finally announced the release date of Guild Wars 2! The game is set to launch on August 28th, 2012.

This is what Mike O’Brien posted on the game’s official website :

This is an incredibly momentous day for the studio and for me personally. This journey began in 2007 when we first announced that we were beginning work onGuild Wars 2 and that you wouldn’t be hearing from us for a while. Then in 2010 we unveiled our manifesto for Guild Wars 2: a living breathing online world that challenges convention, that’s designed for fun instead of grind, and that brings social interaction to a new level in an online world.

Through all the long hours and hard decisions, we were bolstered by the knowledge that we were not in this alone. All along you’ve been there for us, cheering us on, supporting us when we needed it, testing early versions of the game, and above all, giving us your honest feedback every step of the way. Guild Wars 2 is a better game for all of the work that our community has put in.

Now that we’re just two months away from launch, we’ll spend our remaining time optimizing, polishing, and balancing the game, to ensure that we provide you with the best launch-day experience we possibly can.

To this end, I’m excited to announce that our next and final Beta Weekend Event is planned for July 20-22.



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  • Novas

    Can not wait for this game to launch! I purposely avoided the beta weekend’s so I could have a new and fresh experience from the get go! I have watched a TON of videos though, to satisfy my curiosity!

  • ereyethirn

    Guild Wars 2 is gonna be huge, not only is it a subscription free mmo, its also probably the most well made mmo ever made. You can not over hype it because no matter how much you hype it, it will live up to it.

    • MrGrimord

      As long as you are not burned with the medieval fantasy theme with a elve race, a cow race and a cutie race.

      As a hardcore pve’er, I don’t see how this mmo can manage to hold me in a long term without pvping. Shinny and cool looking stuffs won’t be enough.

      • MrGrimord

        elf*

      • cript

        +1

      • ereyethirn

        As a hardcore pve’er there are a ton of awesome looking apparently really hard dungeons with 4 different parts for you to explore so there is a ton of those, plus they will probably add more in the future, and the hardest of these dungeons are made for hardcores apparently so you will be having ‘raid night(s)’ its just you wont have your tank dps and healer and you will only have 5 players in your group.

      • Alarox

        GW2 does not have elves. Sylvari don’t look or act like elves.

        GW2 does not have cows. You’re clearly too influenced by WoW. Charr are cats and don’t look anything like cows.

        Asura are generally not cute if you actually look at them. Of course the main one for the story is cute since she’s a young female Asura, but most I’ve seen look kind of demonic.

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        As for PvE, you’re also clearly too influenced by WoW. You think that the only interesting and challenging content can be gear-based raids. People used to think the earth was flat too.

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