Guild Wars 2 Open Beta?

Question

Does "Open Beta" mean that anyone and everyone can sign up for it and play in it? Or is it only a select few people that get to use it? How do i sign up for it if i never played the original Guild Wars?(I think it sucked) Please give me all the information you know about "Open Beta's" that will benefit me. Thank you to those who reply.

Answer 1

There is no signup at the moment for the open beta, but if we go by how these things are usually run then it will open, as is to everyone, who wants to sign up.

You will NOT have to have played GW1 to sign up or participate.



Signup, when it opens, will be on the official Guild Wars 2 page www.guildwars2.com, NOWHERE ELSE. There are a lot of scams around trying to trick you (I made a clip about that just the other day for my youtube-channel) and then you should be able to get a client from there and play.



Those that pre-purchase the game (not the same as advanced order from your local gamestore) might also be given early access, but that's not confirmed yet.

Answer 2

There are three kinds of Open Beta. Usually a program will undergo two kinds of Open Beta, but there are many games that only do one or the other. The third type isn't so much a Beta as it is a label for a game they reserve the right to change.



There is the "application" Open Beta, where the company selects Betas from the applicants. This is primarily a bug testing beta, many companies would prefer people willing to give them feedback and report bugs for them. Otherwise they will want to get their demographics as wide as possible, both in terms of players and computer hardware.



Then there is the "load test" Open Beta. This usually occurs after the "application" beta. Anyone who signs up for this style of beta is let on so they can test how the server reacts under stress. These betas are also part of the "pre-order" reward scheme. They let everyone who pre-ordered on a day or two 'early' to seed things like the auction house and trading systems.



The third is the "unfinished" Open Beta. Anyone who signs up is allowed to play and the game opperates normally, they just never get rid of the Beta tag. This gives two advantages. It allows them to say the game is in progress when they make massive balance changes. The second, which I have never actually heard of happening, is it allows them to do a total server wipe when they offically go from beta to final. To the best of my knowledge 100% of all unfinshed betas are free-to-play games and no game in "unfinished" beta has ever gone to final.



Personally I think Guild Wars 2 will only have the "application" style beta. Being a retial program there obviously won't be the "unfinished" beta.



Arena.net is not accepting Beta applications at this time. Until then any application you might see related to Guild Wars 2 is a scam. When they finally do set-up the Beta you will be able to sign-up on the offical Guild Wars 2 site.

Answer 3

Open Beta indeed means that anyone can apply for it. This doesn't mean that everyone is let in - ArenaNet will still have a limit on the amount of people let into beta, and they may have specific ideas about what kind of people they want in (they will probably want a wide variety, both people with and without previous GW experience, both people with and without previous beta test experience, people with a wide variety of computer configurations, etc). But yes, the application procedure will be public and will be open to all. Keep your eyes on the official website and the official blog - the open beta will definitely be announced there, along with information on how to apply. But the start of the open beta is still at least several months away... right now they're still in closed alpha, with closed beta starting before the end of the year, and I expect the closed beta to take at least 2 months, if not more.

Answer 4

there is genuinely no longer an 'Open Beta' for guild wars 2. You signed up for between the closed beta attempt weekends which would be held in previous due March and in April. a million million human beings signed up for those, and of those human beings, no one has gained an invitation yet. you're able to although have gained an digital mail telling you that your registration substitute into helpful. invites would be despatched out later this month, and could be based on the equipment specs that the builders choose for to objective - so a large form of platforms would be mandatory, yet there is not any assure which you will particularly be invited. be conscious that in spite of in case you don't get into the 1st beta attempt weekend, your application will stay valid for the subsequent beta attempt weekends, so which you do no longer could sign up back. for extra education, study the FAQ (2d link under) in case you probably did no longer get carry of a affirmation digital mail once you registered, then you definitely can request a resend using the 0.33 link under.