No Guild Wars 2 beta this year

By Robert Purchese Published 30 June, 2008

ArenaNet wants to meet expectations.

ArenaNet has said Guild Wars 2 will not enter beta testing this year, pushing hopes of a launch into the latter stages of 2009.

The developer said it's unwilling to open the beta as early as it did for Guild Wars 1, because expectations are much higher this time around.

"Although we publicly alpha- and beta-tested the original Guild Wars while it was still in early development, with Guild Wars 2 we will commence beta testing closer to the game's release," reads the recently updated Guild Wars 2 FAQ.

"With that in mind, we will not start beta testing in 2008 as we had originally planned. Guild Wars 2 is a very large and ambitious game, and Guild Wars players rightfully have very high expectations of its quality. We want players to be absolutely blown away by the game the first time they experience it."

Guild Wars 2 was revealed in early 2007, but no screenshots or footage have yet emerged. ArenaNet has previously said it was waiting for Guild Wars: Eye of the North expansion to be released before it ramped up to full production on the sequel.

Guild Wars 2 aims to give you many more levels to climb and races to play as, whilst retaining the no subscription business model and familiar group-versus-group combat that proved so popular in the original game.

Head over to our Guild Wars 2 gamepage to see what ArenaNet had to say about it when the curtain first lifted.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (5) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Raziel #1 4 years ago

    :(

  • SpyroViper #2 4 years ago

    Bah.

    There are better MMO's out there, plus Diablo 3 has just been announced even though it's not an MMO, it'll trounce this MMO Wannabe.

  • ZuluHero #3 4 years ago

    you do know that this mmo wannabe is like the second most popular 'mmo' next to wow?

    Anyway GW2 is supposed to be like a 'proper' mmo - whatever THAT is...i guess glitchy, bad UIs and lag? ;)

  • swede #4 4 years ago

    There are better MMO's out there? It's not even 'out there' yet, how can you judge something that is 18 months away from release?

    D3 will be massive, but GW still has a massive following, and is still brilliant. GW is not really a true MMO, I made the mistake of treating it like an MMO at first. I have grown to realise that it isnt like other MMO style games. The draw for me is experimenting with different skill builds and class combos both for PvE and PvP.

  • WinterSnowblind #5 4 years ago

    GW2 is a true MMO, it has a totally persistant world (except for story missions) and they've even removed the level cap, for those of you who think the only goal in an MMO is to grind.

    And if nothing else, Guild Wars was at least a lot less tedious than Diablo.
    Edited by 1 at 30/06/08 @ 12:02