Guild Wars 2

In my experience you cant really leech off of other streamers unless they invite you into there circle and cross promote with you.

In so in that we should just focus on having the best gameplay experience possible and enjoying ourselves.

I am constantly producing material for YouTube and Justin.TV and trying to one day grow enough to maybe turn it into a job, but when it comes to my games I still put fun and enjoyment above all else because at the end of the day that is what its all about and what everybody int he guild will be there for.

 

You have a fair point but at the same time I want to be in a well-populated server and not in one that is obscure (even though I know every server will be very populated). I just think that being in one with some internet establishment will ensure a good feel for the community and stuff.

 

Something to take note too, is that these big internet groups may very well change their main home worlds between the beta weekends and the final release.

 

Yeah, and we may as well all depending.

For now this is just to get started, once in game we can evaluate population and determine if its better or worse to play in heavily populated servers or with popular groups.

I feel its best to mark our own turf rather than compete with other large media groups, and on a "outback" server it's probably more prone to have a mature playerbase, aka people I dont mind playing with or hearing on mumble not the rain of pre-teens that follow internet groups and will be in there server hoping to run into them.

 

A good idea might be to just pick one of the servers more or less randomly for the duration of the beta weekends, and look at the world reports that are sure to surface about how each world is populated over the beta, and then make a decision. Server choice for everyone except the largest internet groups will be arbitrary and largely based on world names, so it might be good to wait and see how the numbers settle.

 

I'll go ahead and post the server choice to widescreengamingforum as well we have not taken much effort on organizing anything over there yet.

 

Got everything downloaded and found out my schedule changed

3 swings 27-29 so who knows how much I'll be on

 

I think we should just run our own thing.

Kinda reminds me of the time i played WoW, when i went with Alliance since they had more mature playerbase than Horde but that was before Burning Crusade.

 

Ok guys here you go: Breaking News: Preload Guild Wars 2 - Beta Event April 27-29 - Server List Posted - Live Stream - YouTube

spread the word.

 

In text format straight from the e-mail for those that want that:

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Greetings!

We're writing to let you know that your spot in the upcoming Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event has been reserved—and the beta client is now ready for preloading! We recommend that you begin your download as soon as possible so you’re ready to start playing when the festivities begin on Friday, April 27, at noon PDT (GMT -7). The Beta Weekend Event will end Sunday, April 29, at 11:59 p.m. PDT (GMT -7).

Click here to go to the "Getting Started" thread in our beta forums, where you can download the beta client and learn important information about the upcoming weekend event. You can log in to the forums using the same User ID and password that you created when you registered your Guild Wars 2 account. Please note that you will only be able to browse the forums for now. Commenting and posting will not be enabled until the Beta Weekend Event begins.

If you're having issues downloading the client, please visit support.guildwars2.com.

We'll see you in-game!

The Guild Wars 2 Team

 

If we do choose a world that doesn't have a large Internet group on it then that's means we'll be able to play WvWvW against them, just something to keep in mind.

 

True but we aren't even strong to compete against Reddit! lol...

Anyways, pick a server that might suit us and we can try it out for the Beta. The key is to have the guild members all on a single server so we can meet each other in-game very easily.

 

If you don't mind a bunch of frenchies (with various levels of english) tagging along i could get them to play the BWE with us.

 

I dont mind.
My English aint perfect either. xD

 

can't wait for this game to come out. Anyone got an extra invite to the beta weekend this weekend??

 

I'm currently pre-loading the client from university and i'm starting to wonder if they have some cap or the servers are under heavy load because i'm hitting only 500kB/s while i should be saturating the wireless G network i'm on. Yeah, i don't have N in my office which sucks, but at least i'm on 5GHz.

The .dat file seems to be a good 20GB if i calculated this right.

Oh and luckily the old command lines from GW will be implemented which would mean we won't need FRAPS to monitor framerate. I'll check to see if they are implemented or not in due time.

 

13.7 Gb actually.

 

Hmm, i'm at 23% with 4 700MB, using that gives me close to 20GB though (4700/0.23/1024=19.95GB). I believe you, but that means that there might be some error with the progress indicator or that there is something else involved than just downloading the file.

 

When i downloaded i maxed out at 1,25mb/s so there was a cap at least for me.
Should have easily done 5mb/s.

But the filesize of my client was 12,7gb.

 

No. We were only given one for ourselves via Pre-Purchase. You will need to scour the web to see if they are giving out extra keys for people who did Pre-Purchase.

 

Think i found my answer for the download % indicator. It's probably based off the amount of files downloaded compared to the overall total rather than the amount of data downloaded.

 

Haven't posted in a while but it's worth a shot. I am voting for going with either Yak's Bend or Sorrow's Furnace. Yak's Bend has quite a following with Yogscast and GW2Guru, which is a website we should try to be related to. Sorrow's Furnace seems to have a lot of PvPers and some Guild Wars 2 websites/magazines so they will be a server to watch out for in WvW.

Maguuma vs Sorrow's Furnace vs Yak's Bend would probably be the most epic match ever xD

Check out this reddit post for more info on communities based on servers:
"Homeworlds" of various online communities for first GW2 BWE [edited from SA with new data] : Guildwars2

 

I am siding on PlagueDoctor's positioning here and I got other GW friends that might be leaning on Yak's Bend as well. I hate to see a schism within the guild but the thing is I really would like to play the beta with people I know and not be in a server with people that have no focus we can relate to.

I think all the Guild Officers should meet up later today or tomorrow to reach a final verdict democratically.

 

Yak's bend is ok with me friends who got on the previous beta were on that one.

 

Hello I just needed to know something regarding Guild Wars 2.

I needed to know if an Asus K50IN could run Guild Wars 2, even if it is on minimum.
The laptop has:

Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2.1GHz Processor
Geforce G102M 512MB Graphics Card
2GB RAM Memory

The game's minimum requirements are:
Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or better • Intel® Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3, AMD Athlon 64 X2, or better • 2 GB RAM • NVIDIA® GeForce® 7800, ATI X1800, Intel HD 3000, or better (256MB of video RAM and shader model 3.0 or better) • 25 GB available HDD space

Thanks for your help!

 

Well with the minimum requirements you posted, you kind of answered your own question. I think you will be able to play it at low and with a smaller resolution to run it smoothly, though it might give you troubles when trying to play WvW. Perhaps Tijo could put in some greater insight?

 

CPU is fine, but your GPU is close to a 9300M which i'd consider to be below minimum. You'll probably be able to get something relatively playable at the lowest settings when the game is launched and optimized, but in it's beta form, i don't think you'll have something playable.

 

How exciting, can't wait for beta weekend! which happens to be during my study week before finals...

 

We figure a server out?

Found out my schedule changed yet again. Looks like I'm on mids when the beta will be live so I'll be on 2pmish - 8pmish.

 

I have a question: can we make multiple characters each with a different home world in the same GW2 account?

 

In a word? No. Your whole account is tied to a home world.

Also I have talked to the Officers and so far here is what they are deciding on Home Servers:

1. SaveTheKennies: Yak's Bend or Darkhaven
2. Tijo: Yak's Bend
3. Star Forge: Yak's Bend or Darkhaven
4. PlagueDoctor: Yak's Bend or Darkhaven
5. ViciousXUSMC: Steamspur Mountains

I don't want to proceed beyond what the preferences are and do correct me if I got your preference wrong. However, it looks like Guild Officer opinions are democratically leaning on Yak's Bend. I do note that a few of us have friends that are non-NBR in-game that are also favoring servers like Yak's Bend so it is essential that we should isolate from them as well...

 

Darn, I wanted to make chars that could keep in touch with a number of communities.

 

Not during this beta weekend but later on (at least when the game is released) there will be a 'guesting' feature that lets you take characters to other worlds and play on them. You can't do some things though, like WvWvW, while guesting.

EDIT: Or as the blog post put it:

 

Let's do this, you guys do Yaks Bend and let me know how it fairs.

I'll be doing Steamspur Mountains since I already posted that I would and I don't go back on my word.

This is only the Beta not the final game and it is a good way to evaluate what is better. A highly populated server that everybody wants to be on or a smaller server that does not have the same calling.

Id probably rather become a larger part of a small server than a shadow of somebody in a larger server.

The only thing to gain is more people to play with/against but that could lead to stability issues and most of the organized pvp is in groups of like 6 anyways.

I like being the underdog, not following trends or trying to fit in is my way.

 

As you said, it's the beta. It's nice for me that NBR had the option of Yak's Bend though as i have friends who were planning on going into Yak's bend as well. I probably won't be able to coax them into joining the NBR guild since they already have plans to reestablish our old GW guild. For me, it's the NBR guild first and if i can join another it'll be theirs. I'll get them on board if they are available and we need more people for come activities tough.

That said if the decision were to change, they already know that i'll roll with NBR so i'll end up with the majority of the NBR group anyways.

EDIT: On the bright side we'll have a good idea of how multiple servers are so if there are any problems, we'll be able to make a more educated choice for the next beta.

 

I respect the decisions from both of you and it will be fine. However I just don't want the guild to get under-saturated by being split like this in the long-run as that is how guilds die too. Therefore in that case here is how I lay it out.

Per the decision, The NBR Guild will be split on two home servers. Vicious will be leading the guild operations in Steamspur Mountains while the rest of the officers that wants to do Yak's Bend will operate there. We can all reconvene here, the Steam Group or in a new NBR dedicated guild thread that I will make shortly to see how both servers feel and go from there.

Any member is not obligated to join one or the other but it would be nice though to keep a good amount for both since I don't want to see Vicious alone on his own without our support in Steamspur or the vice-versa. So the two beta home servers NBR will use are Steamspur and Yak's with Vicious leading the former and the rest of the officers leading Yak's. We can all reconvene back on NBR or the Steam Group as we go though the weekend.

Also note that my vote with Yak's was NOT due to the presence of a high publicized community following that is on the server, but the fact that many friends not affiliated from this guild has decided to join Yak's for some of us who have played GW 1. I also do think that GW2Guru's presence on Yak's can help new players to the series get accustomed as well. My two cents of course.

 

One more thing to note is that we have one home server change allowed during the beta so we could do both at worse.

EDIT: I seriously feel like pulling my hair out about this...

 

However due to the lack of time, it is difficult to experience both at the same time for this run. At least for me. Therefore I might end up doing Yak's Bend in the end for now.

PS: As Guild Leader, I feel like I am not being a good one as I am suppose to unify all decisions and now I got background issues to deal with as well relating to the community of the game.

 

I'll probably go Steamspur Mountains...don't really like the major online communities affiliated with Yak's Bend,namely Yogs and gw2guru.

 

I still think establishing a good home base is vital as "guesting" besides PvP might not yield you higher rewards or such. Who knows?

Worst case we split the guild simple as that. That has been a contingency plan regarding EU/NA situations for a while now. However considering how small and fragile we are, I am personally not in favor of doing so as of right now. Worst case is we run to a point where die off fast and all out efforts has been in vain.

 

It's not like having the guild split for this beta weekend is going to ruin everything. After this weekend, we can see how we feel about the servers and figure out what we're going to do for the next beta and onward. We don't even have a release date for the game yet so we don't have to have everything decided now.

 

yeah I dont know where this talk of split is from, this is a beta weekend. We are reconing for info to help make a better educated decision when the full game comes out as to what kind of server we want to be based on.

I doubt given the info posted so far that even if we all agreed to be on the same server that we would have much organized grouping going on this weekend anyways as nobody has committed to a time to play and pretty much everybody has said they have some sort of in real life obligation to tend to.

You guys are over reacting, lets show our age and relax a bit.

I personally already have organized a play time, people to play with, a voice chat server, and will be live streaming.
Just as with the guild name votes, I am quite capable of getting things done

WideScreenGamingForm is Joining - http://www.wsgf.org/news/wsgf-guild-wars-2-beta-weekend
Note: They picked a EU & US server rather than make people play cross region.

 

I tried adding some people on Steam.

Same as my username.

 

Note that you need to send me a message to add me on steam. I get about 5+ invites a day and so I ignore them if I dont get a personalized message.

 

I wasn't saying we are going to split. It is a contingency plan for the long-term. I personally don't like to see last-minute fallouts and I always plan out a long-term solution. Hell, that is how I usually do things in general.

Right now just pick either Yak's or Steamspur and enjoy the game. We aren't forcing anyone to one or the another and if time-permits, I might check out Steamspur and see how things are going in general.

 

Will probably do this as well seeing as my whole week-end is practically free so i'll be doing the caveman and huddling in front of my comp all day saturday and sunday. Goodbye social life for the week-end. Added you on Steam s2odin although i don't chat much over steam, but it'll make organizing things easier. Now gonna have to write a message to vicious to add him.

EDIT: Friend request sent to vicious, dropped a comment on your profile with how my user name should show.

 

I wish I could do the caveman thing and play all day, have the kids though. So I will be on mostly at night time.

When the full game is released I plan to put in vacation request and take the first 2 or 3 days to play full on cave mode.

 

I will be playing on Steamspur Mountains.
Already promised ViciousXUSMC that we could do Guild Wars 2 instead of Saint's Row: The Third.

 

Added tijo & s2odin to my friends list.

 

Pre-purchased yesterday, can't wait for the beta this Friday!