Exciting stuff gents, this is the first game I will be preordering since SWG.  Ha ha.

Originally posted by mbrodie

Originally posted by atticusbc

Originally posted by messier647

preordering from the official website doesnt count ?

my question exactly

pre purchasing from the website on april 10th will get you into beta's and headstart, but they are only selling digital copies, no physical ones

 

But will pre purchasing from a place like amazon still give you a physical copy as well as getting the 3 day headstart?

Oh yeah! Portugal is listed! <3

It will be available for digital purchase on Anet store ?

Not even 1 polish retailer >.> oh well I was planning to buy digital anyway.

Damn it. Poland is listed but why there is no retailer mentioned by name?

Originally posted by brody71

Originally posted by aesperus

Originally posted by Dookz

Oh pls Oh pls...I hope digital prepurchase directly from ncsoft/guildwars2 site is available worldwide 

This. They already have a pretty good tool for doing D2D, so I'd be shocked if they didn't use it for a title this big.

To clarify about the pre-purchase for some of you who may not have been following:

1) No, there still isn't a release date. This appears to basically be a move to both raise funding to keep polishing the game (and release it later), as well as give more people the opportunity to try it out in beta.

 

as much as #1 would make sense.  id really like a source on this.  "raising funds to polish"  you are implying that Arenanet is broke, and im not sure they would want you to spread such a rumor.

I don't think it really implies that.  It's common knowledge that a lot of money is being spent while the development phase is going on.  This just lets them start to recoup that early and allows the game to begin paying for itself prior to the actual release.  It may also make release day slightly less hectic as well.

At least the CE isnt going to GAME in the UK who went into administration last week. Never pre-ordered anything from Zavi before, hope they are good with pre-orders. 

Originally posted by Dakirn

I'm starting to prefer digital copies. Not really interested in the CE stuff. My SWTOR CE stuff is already taking up a corner of my living room.

Besides these days it's just easier to download a client. After a year or so, by time you download all the patches for a physical copy you could have downloaded almost all of the regular client anyway.

Plus it's one less piece of junk I have to store somewhere. I already have enough of those around..

Once your game key is registered with NC Soft, I'm pretty sure you can just download the client later down the line.  It's how I reinstalled GW1 the last time without the original disks.  I'm not positive about how it works though or what the rules are.  Might be a good question to ask NC Soft support.

If you pre-purchase game from buy.guildwars2.com you get digital copy unless its CE plus 3 day head start and access to all beta. Same goes if you prepurchase the game from any listed retailers but most of them will give you a phisical box as well.

How do you buy it from the website? Will any credit card work? Sorry, first timer here.

GameS in Serbia have CE available. Never thought it would happen. Someone punch me, I must be dreaming :D

Originally posted by dzoni87

GameS in Serbia have CE available. Never thought it would happen. Someone punch me, I must be dreaming :D

*Punch*

*Slam*

*Special Move: The Grazing Alot*

You are now awake.

Originally posted by Alot

Originally posted by dzoni87

GameS in Serbia have CE available. Never thought it would happen. Someone punch me, I must be dreaming :D

*Punch*

 

 

*Slam*

 

 

*Special Move: The Grazing Alot*

 

 

 

You are now awake.

Oh, thank you kind sir.... um, wait *looks to OP links again*... its still there o.O I must be in some strange paralel dimension of dreams :O

Oh wow, Lithuania has two retailers. Too bad it costs 0.5 more here.

USA

• 
  GameStop - CE


• 
  Amazon


• 
  Best Buy

If only retailers can approach ArenaNet to be official retailers. I do know of some retailers in Singapore that would be interested.

Originally posted by Zetsuei

Originally posted by cinos

Originally posted by Quesa

No Steam download, so sad.

Just for prepurchase. Apparently Steam wouldn't offer it (according to Twitter):

"To clarify: Steam is not offering pre-purchase, I did not talk about launch. ~MK"

 

Really would like to know the exact reason they won't offer it. I don't see any reason why they wouldn't. As it is, if you want to get in the betas and get the extra stuff AND want it on Steam, you will have to buy the game twice. It would be a nice gesture if they gave us a cd-key that we could redeem on Steam at a later date.

They did for Rift... but they've probably changed their policy because too many people tend to decide they no longer want the game after playing the beta / headstart and kick and scream for their money back.

For other people in the UK, there is also:

https://www.coolshop.co.uk/catalog/product/53405-guild-wars-2--for-pc

Costs £29.30 for basic pre-order copy.