Originally posted by The_Korrigan

I'm from Europe and I couldn't care less about euro or whatever other soccer related event - my personal opinion is that it's a dumb overpaid and overmediatized sport. A single Prick in that stupid sport is paid more to kick in a ball more than it would take to make 50 normal families to live very comfortably.

Somehow soccer fans seem to think the whole world is excited by their fetish sport around here... when in reality the vast majority couldn't care less and thinks that sport is dumb.

GW2 > soccer. Anytime. Hell, almost any MMORPG is better than watching that crap.

While I do like soccer (in moderate ammounts), I can't disagree.

*attempts to freeze himself until June 8*

Wonder if they will have the slyvari and asura in?

Originally posted by StriderXed

Originally posted by Requiamer

http://www.arena.net/blog/announcing-the-next-guild-wars-2-beta-weekend

Called it.

Someone else had done a thread with a poll for people to guess the time of the next BWE. I had actually guessed the weekend of the 16th, but I'm so glad that I'm wrong, I can't even put it into words!

Originally posted by The_Korrigan

I'm from Europe and I couldn't care less about euro or whatever other soccer related event - my personal opinion is that it's a dumb overpaid and overmediatized sport. A single Prick in that stupid sport is paid more to kick in a ball more than it would take to make 50 normal families to live very comfortably.

Somehow soccer fans seem to think the whole world is excited by their fetish sport around here... when in reality the vast majority couldn't care less and thinks that sport is dumb.

GW2 > soccer. Anytime. Hell, almost any MMORPG is better than watching that crap.

Actually the vast majority likes the sport and is one of the most popular if not the most in the world, not all players are fakers there's actually quite a few that play for the love of the game and have undeniable skill, players have even died playing the sport.

If you don't like it it's cool,  but I think you have to chill out a bit about what other people love and enjoy.

woot! our new vid cards should be in then *does a dance* cant wait to test GW2 on our completed comps!

Noob question: I pre-purchased GW2 from the website. I attached the key to my GW account. I then got an email saying that I've successfully registered the game. It said I would shortly receive another email to download the client, that was last week. I haven't received any other emails since. How do I download the client so I can play on this June weekend?

Originally posted by Tyroki

Originally posted by Zeroxin

Originally posted by Vonatar

Originally posted by Djildjamesh
During soccer .....whyyyyyyy

I would imagine because ANet is a US company and they and a large proportion of the US beta players couldn't give  a damn about Euro 2012.

Actually it's quite the opposite. A large part of the GW1 playerbase is in Europe.

Of course, he's ignoring the fact there are beta players from other countries (I'm from New Zealand) who don't give a rats backside about soccer (or any real life sport when it comes to myself)

I was presenting ANet's possible perspective, which may be US-centric.

Personally I would never forget non-US beta players who don't care about soccer. I'm one of them too!

Originally posted by Frek

Noob question: I pre-purchased GW2 from the website. I attached the key to my GW account. I then got an email saying that I've successfully registered the game. It said I would shortly receive another email to download the client, that was last week. I haven't received any other emails since. How do I download the client so I can play on this June weekend?

log in to your account and then click account

https://account.guildwars2.com/login

A company is spending millions developing a game on a very tight schedule with extreme pressures from all angles including investors, parent company and their own internal deadlines ... and you guys actually think they give a rat f$#@ing arse about a football tourney?

Wise up people.

I do believe that with 10 days to prepare before both the GW2 beta and the start of euro 2012, you can somehow leverage a TV into easy viewing range of your computer monitor thereby creating some sort of awesome entertainment corner that you wouldn't have to move more than from 6 feet away from.

Heck, with 10 days to prepare you should be able to buy, find and stock a minifridge nearby the desk, steal every single pillow, cushion and blanket in the house and create yourself a giant fort to keep interlopers from distrupting any of your viewing or playing pleasure.

Someone should make a first world problems cat for this.

Wish List:

- chat bubbles

- global chat

- instance selection to join group members in overflow areas

Originally posted by Elikal

Wish List:

- chat bubbles

- global chat

- instance selection to join group members in overflow areas

I would like to see the Global chat not so much bubbles reminds me of COL. Also hope they fix the overflow issue and maybe just maybe let us venture into the Asura part of the world and instances.

I know some people said they hope for the optimization but I think it already happen. When testing the Stress Test it ran so smooth on my pc and im running an Intel i7-990X 24 gig two 6970's. Yet my fiance who is running on a slow PC AMD Phenom2 x4 8 Gig with a 5850 and she had lag in the BWE really bad and could only run at mid. During the Stress she ran it on full and it was smooth with no issues.

I would also like see maybe a better tutorial system it does make the learning curve for people tough. I had no issue but my fiance who enjoys AION took a bit to learn some of the basic.

All in all excited!

Originally posted by KickinPups2

Originally posted by Elikal

Wish List:

- chat bubbles

- global chat

- instance selection to join group members in overflow areas

I would like to see the Global chat not so much bubbles reminds me of COL. Also hope they fix the overflow issue and maybe just maybe let us venture into the Asura part of the world and instances.

 ....

did you ever tried to communicate with the player in front of you while 20+ people were using the chat? was impossible lol

Originally posted by Honner

Originally posted by KickinPups2

Originally posted by Elikal

Wish List:

- chat bubbles

- global chat

- instance selection to join group members in overflow areas

I would like to see the Global chat not so much bubbles reminds me of COL. Also hope they fix the overflow issue and maybe just maybe let us venture into the Asura part of the world and instances.

 ....

did you ever tried to communicate with the player in front of you while 20+ people were using the chat? was impossible lol

Agree 100% never looked at it that way..Good point! ;-)

Awww, woe is thee!! I had arrangements for it be this weekend.. :/

Truly hope this extra solvo of time is being put to good use for the next build of the beta and hopefully it translates into better server loads with more operable grouping now. *knock on wood*

Called it. This weekend was too soon, and weekend beyond the next one would put them close to 2 months since the first beta test. ANet wouldn't do that to their fans, they know how much their success and credibility relies on the love of their base. The second weekend was the only logical option.

I'm glad we have so much notice, and our characters are still there as I suspected they would be, as well. I'm going to spend that weekend getting the 30 Mesmer to 35 to try the dungeon, but after that he's getting benched until launch. I've been wanting to experiment with a ranger, anyway.

Originally posted by gaeanprayer

Called it. This weekend was too soon, and weekend beyond the next one would put them close to 2 months since the first beta test. ANet wouldn't do that to their fans, they know how much their success and credibility relies on the love of their base. The second weekend was the only logical option.

I'm glad we have so much notice, and our characters are still there as I suspected they would be, as well. I'm going to spend that weekend getting the 30 Mesmer to 35 to try the dungeon, but after that he's getting benched until launch. I've been wanting to experiment with a ranger, anyway.

I currently have a 30 Element on Beta server and Im also planning on doing the dungeon. I also had the chance to get a ranger to 20 was tons of fun! Pets need work though I deff would say try to get a 2H greatsword early you will love it!

i just hope they optimized GPU usage. thats the only thing i really care about.

Cool beans! Finally some real news about next beta...