Guild Wars 2

[Draegan]

The game is digitally sold out, but Gamestop and Best Buy still have codes apparently.  They may make more digital copieis available over the weekend after they gauge traffic loads.

[Tmon]

I was thinking about that this morning, it would make sense that they limited the codes to the number of players they could support with their currently deployed hardware. 

[Soukyan]

They might just be out of codes and have to generate a bunch more. These things typically don't just generate the codes on the fly every time someone requests one.

Someone explain this to me, please. In the age of technology where we can host thousands of people in 3D virtual worlds and keep track of millions of variables on-the-fly, how difficult is it to generate a few million extra, unique 25 digit character sequences? Or was the quoted statement just ignorant speculation?

On another note, I would agree that it is probably to mitigate an huge population influx during the beta weekend event so they can know roughly what to expect and scale for it. If I had to throw my own ignorant speculation into the mix, I would guess that digital "copies" will be available again starting Monday morning.

[Draegan]

Generating codes is easy, but you also have to have the infrastructure to handle more customers, from accounting to traffic loads to customer service.

[Soukyan]

Generating codes is easy, but you also have to have the infrastructure to handle more customers, from accounting to traffic loads to customer service.

Based upon that post, I will stand by my original guess... sales will resume on Monday. This beta event is going to be absolutely flooded with gamers all weekend long.

[Mrbloodworth]

Taking bets if the best buy codes even work.

[Hawkbit]

This is likely the first beta in 10 years that I'm not going to touch.  I'm pretty excited about this game and simply don't want to spoil it.  I'm keeping myself in a D3 mindset for the time being.

[Bungee]

For those who didn't want to buy the pre-purchase or just couldn't and still want to have some beta:
http://www.twitch.tv/shift_tv
I expect a lot more live streams to pop up once the servers are actually live.

[Mosesandstick]

Is it supposed to be up now?

[Tmon]

Noon Pacific I believe.

[Mosesandstick]

Supposed to. I'm logged in. 

[murdoc]

Yeah, it's up now. Just logged in and created a couple characters.

[Bungee]

There we go...

Quite a lot of streams online:
http://www.twitch.tv/directory/Guild%20Wars%202

And TotalBiscuit is at it too:
http://www.twitch.tv/totalbiscuit

[waffel]

Just bought mine @ Gamefly for $53.99

Add to cart and at the end page before you submit the order enter EDNOTE10 for 10% off.

[Rokal]

This game hasn't been given a release date yet?

Maybe there's some hope that they'll have codes available outside of pre-purchasing the game in future tests.

[satael]

well, considering I'm getting 502-bad gateway from the gw2 website and unable to complete the operation from the game client it seems they have churned out too many codes already...

[waffel]

Nevermind, looks like I need to make an account on GW2 website to register the game. Thankfully, there is no easy direct link to making an account from the main GW2 page...

[Trippy]

New GW2 forum here: http://forums.f13.net/index.php?board=101.0

[Numtini]

*shrug* computer randomly turns off after a few minutes. No error message or blue screen. I threw on coretemp and my temps are fine.

I guess no GW2 for me this time around.

Edit: Finally made it through character creation by racing through and once in the game the crashes stopped and the game runs well. I'm on a different server from you guys. Any idea how to change instances? My friends and I are standing in the same place and apparently in different ones.

[Modern Angel]

If you're in different instances, it's due to the overflow server thing. You're basically a tourist on the overflow server and no (to my knowledge) way of switching over manually. Just have to either wait it out or go to a low pop server.

[Falconeer]

"Connecting... Unable to complete operation. Please try again later" is all over my computer. Am I the only one? I guess so since no one is posting here, means you lucky folks are all playing right now...

[Numtini]

It's definitely a little more beta than I'd expected.

[Modern Angel]

I'm somewhat surprised. It certainly runs like a dream on my dogshit machine and, other than the server stressing lag, nobody much seems to be complaining in the actual game.

[Numtini]

If you told me I was in the last alpha round, I'd say moneyhats. But for a post-take-your-money beta? Um. This is six months to a year from release.

[Modern Angel]

I completely, 100% disagree. I have been perpetually floored at how complete it is and how fast they work.

[Numtini]

I only know this weekend, I'm not in the private beta. I had 3 crash to shutdowns during character creation. I got in and had fun, but I finished up helping some farmers and the game told me to go back to town. I ran for 15 minutes to get there and it told me I wasn't high enough level and I should go back -- that's a polish issue. Then I went back and the lag was so bad I was 2-5 seconds between keypress and execution.

That's barely beta and definitely not "beta for those people who have paid in full."

The game does seem to be incredible and one I want to play, but it's just nowhere close to finished. I was expecting a publicity beta and I got a Beta 1. It's sort of the opposite of SWTOR. Everything in SWTOR beta was perfect, but there was no game there. There's a game here, but nothing is ready at all, much less perfect.

[Threash]

The game seems ready to release if they work out the connection issues, there is no way that should take six months or a year.

[Modern Angel]

Yeah, I feel you. I'm not saying that you're NOT having issues. I'm just saying that they seem to be largely isolated. Besides the networking issues, which seem to be cropping up because there's a critical mass with the beta event. Which is good.

I wish the  wasn't so restrictive, because I can honestly say I've never been in a better, more focused, more tightly run beta in my entire gaming life.

[Threash]

There's no NDA for the beta weekends.

[Lantyssa]

Correct, not for the beta weekends.

[Modern Angel]

Yeah, I know. Still in effect for the bulk of the stuff, though. Or so I'm told.

[Phred]

Anyone with an ATI card having graphic issues?

[kildorn]

The game seems ready to release if they work out the connection issues, there is no way that should take six months or a year.

Neg. Aside from being content incomplete (post 30 content may be missing, about half the starting content is), there's a huge issue with the patcher right now.

I've downloaded the game three times now. Each copy says it's 100% and launches the game. Each crashes with a different model render error. Each has a different md5 sum. The launcher, it actually doesn't validate what it downloads. This is a pretty big issue on their forums right now. Essentially if your connection blips at all during the 12 gig download, your copy is fubar and you have to delete it and do it again.

6 months for release is my bet. It's an awesome well built product, but it needs more building.

[Numtini]

Anyone with an ATI card having graphic issues?

I have an HD4870 and graphics were fantastic in actual game. But it crashed to computer turn off every 30-120 seconds during character creation.

[Phred]

Weird game only works for me in windowed mode with depth of field turned off. What a clown shoes event this beta is turning into with the forced disconnect for the patch at 9pm pst and the subsequent login server failures.