Talk:Pre-release news

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Isn't it a bit misplaced on a generic article as this? - Infinite - talk 21:45, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Definitely. Erasculio 21:47, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Yeah this fails I'm going to remove it (re-add if wanted so) --The Holy Dragons 21:47, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Other Sources

Just to bump up the attention to this now (despite it's already been talked on this discussion page before, but hey, new year!). There will be more stuff coming, so do please update it with the interviews and most notable articles etc. I was the only one doing it now. King's Quest 12:58, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Latest NCSoft report

From GW2G. The previous one was linked here. Erasculio 15:21, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Removal of "Other Sources" section

Was there a discussion on this before it was removed? I can understand the need to archive at least some of it (I see that it went all the way back to 2007...), but I happened to really like the section and used it to keep up with interviews and the like that I don't hear about elsewhere. If there is a good reason for getting rid of the section, I am open to hearing it, but if all things are equal, I prefer to keep it... (Satanael | talk) 05:22, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, sorry. I created Interviews and forgot to cross link it at the bottom. Please forgive me! :) -- aspectacle  05:24, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Ah, cool. Just added it to my watchlist :) (Satanael | talk) 04:32, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Archiving per month

Why are we archiving the news monthly? There are only about 7kb of news every month, which would make every 4 months or so archive worthy, but every month? It just seems excessive... Aqua (T|C) 21:17, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Per 3 or 4 months, preferably 4: Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 archives. - 84.31.15.202 21:22, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

I am following what is done on gww which gets about the same amount of news and they archive per month. Remind me why small archives are a problem? Because I'm not really seeing any. -- aspectacle  22:28, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

They are unnecessary. Archives are supposed to be used at/when the page is 32kb (which is when browsers start breaking). One could just as easily find the information from February 2011 in the Jan-April 2011 archive. Aqua (T|C) 23:47, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Does browser-breaking from 32kb up happen when loading pages or only when editing? I've honestly never noticed either case. --ஸ Kyoshi 23:55, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) Archiving monthly from this page maintains the currency of the content and appearance of the page. There are multiple small topics with long headers - even a short (kb-wise) page here ends up with a long TOC. I don't especially care whether it goes into a quarterly archive or not, 3 months isn't much. But I'd rather not see 6 months queued up on the page before we archive or we'll have a TOC like this again.

@Kyoshi - I've never seen problems at 32kb, but I've seen major problems editing and viewing on pages much larger (72kb?) (thinking of some of the Anet staff pages on gww before the community got into cleaning them up). -- aspectacle  00:03, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

I'm not saying wait for three months, I'm just saying make 4 quarterly archives and update as necessary, whether that be at the end of the month or not is up to the person archiving. Aqua (T|C) 00:06, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

If you want to change the two archives already done go ahead and do so. You want a new scheme you do the work this time. :) -- aspectacle  00:22, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Updating

shouldn't this page be updated now that we have new news? 86.80.183.215 08:06, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

In a word, yes. ;) Both the news block and this page have been slow on the update lately but I've tried to get this one up to speed. As a note, if we're being sticklers, the environmental postcards were evidently done for EotN or at least done during its development. (Still awesome, though.) Cheers. Redshift 12:43, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

There's more news here and here. Shouldn't this be updated to reflect that info? 72.148.31.114 04:00, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Facebook

In the current listing of blog posts, there is "No Beta Weekend Event in May (since ANet is still deploying new hardware)," a status update on the official Facebook profile. I have never seen these included on this page and am wondering if and why we should start doing that now. I'm not necessarily opposing, it's just that not everyone bothers to check Facebook for updates, leading to sporadic additions to this article via it. - Infinite - talk 16:26, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

If that's the only place that some bit of news is announced, then why shouldn't we include it? Doing so doesn't require us to include every post they make on FB, does it? —Dr Ishmael 16:34, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

I agree it doesn't require us to include every post, but I wonder if there is use for documenting those posts mainly because they will be covered by blog posts if they are important updates, whereas other posts are unique but not constructive enough to include. Documenting the Facebook statusses would have to be covered by certain guidelines to clarify what is a valuable addition to this article. I think said guideline could be as simple as:

1. Is it significant news?
2. Has it not been covered recently with a blog post, or has it not been promised to be covered with a blog post in the nearby future?
3. Is it news that promotes the actual game, rather than surrounding franchise and merchandise?

If all of the above can be answered with yes, I'd include it. If not, I'd reference it where appropriate. Do you reckon that that's a fit standard for these status updates to be included in this article? - Infinite - talk 16:44, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

That sounds reasonable. The news about "No BWE in May" was most certainly significant, and it was only posted on FB.

Going back and taking a different angle, you said that "not everyone bothers to check Facebook for updates." Wouldn't that make it more imperative for us to include FB-only news to increase its visibility? —Dr Ishmael 17:53, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes, though I was moreso talking from an editor's perspective, contrary to the reader's perspective. If no editors notice the Facebook updates, the readers will not see those additions here. I have faith that users will catch the updates on Facebook and update this article accordingly. - Infinite - talk 18:05, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

I have a lingering feeling that a lot of people don't follow the facebook or twitter news feed that closely as Dr Ishamel said. Some major pieces of news have hit the social network sites, but never the main site. I think as long as the piece of news is major, it's worth adding here. --Lania 18:41, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Agree that newsworthiness rather than method of delivery should be the main consideration. I did want to note that though it was a FB update, it was linked to numerous times in their Twitter as well. I think that the communities are savvy enough to support this so long as they continue with a good mix and frequency of platforms. Redshift 21:39, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Release date out

I know this doesn't add much on the academic level, but I'm quite certain I speak for everyone when i say "YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAA!" --Xhosant 20:25, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

July Blog Post of Ben Miller

I was unsure if this was suitable enough to be an important new article, but as it is from Arenanet, I thought I would add it. Please correct me if I'm wrong. --David 16:27, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Eric Flannum and Colin Johanson give some insight on End-game activities.

I just finished watching the live stream with Eric Flannum and Colin Johanson. They went into a bit of depth about (mostly) end game content, answered a few questions (jokes and what not) and even gave a few weapon ideas away as well as some holiday events.

End Game - They've finally put to rest the myth that there was not necessarily an End Game or End Game content. They've acknowledged a place called "Ore"? (God help me, I think that's what they called it.) Their goal was not to introduce an entire new game at level 80, they wanted to keep it solid throughout to maintain a smooth flow of things. Making sure that what you were playing level 1-79 was not just some tutorial to level 80. - Eric focused on maintaining the fun part of Guild Wars 2 that he said would definitely carry into level 80. It doesn't become ALL serious business in the end, there is still time to do all the things you loved to do in previous levels and more. - "Ore" is supposed to be the End Game area with the MOST events. Supposedly has double the amount of the most event-filled region in Tyria. Many events are supposed to chain players into "Ore". - Eric & Colin spoke about the first few events that involved taking three islands, through the use of submarines, zeppelins and boats. - Colin mentioned "Orians" (Once again, still foggy on the name of the place and its people) who were under siege by Zytan's fury. Bunch of God statues scattered around the area, temples were corrupted, you help to fix it. Controlling all the God Statues causes some great things to happen apparently. (There's always a struggle for control over these items) - There is an awesome dungeon at the end of the "Ore" event chain. - 8 Dungeons in total, but 25 different paths to take.

Reward Structure - Went over some basics of Karma merchants. Them having the best gear for that level and what not.. - EXPERIENCE IS STILL VALUABLE AT LEVEL 80! Eric said that at level 80, you still get experience to get more skill points which can be used to retrieve some awesome artifacts. - The Mystic Forge will offer items that give you skill points as well, and some skill points can be used at the Mystic Forge to get exotic items. ("Some specific recipes may be required".) Fun consumables, hilarious items, transmutation items, etc. - Requires a lot of effort to get the good stuff, isn't that amazing? - Colin announced the Legendary Weapons that exist. Eric followed up saying that Legendary weapons are like exotic weapons, but better looking. Where Exotic weapons may have the best stats, Legendary weapons offer beauty - but never better stats. Legendary weapons will ALWAYS be distinguishable from exotic weapons. - Some examples included the "rainbow-shooting-bow", that has a unicorn head on it, and fires lovely rainbows of damaging fury. There was also mention of the "Ironman" (Actually called the Juggernaut in game), which is a large hammer that when equipped, it consumes the character and causes liquefied metal footprints to fall behind the user's steps. Then there was the Night Sword and the Day Sword which performed peculiarly awesome things (beauty wise) in night and day. You could combine the swords to craft the NIGHT&DAY sword. (Oh my!) Which performs the actions according to the time of day.

Support Team - The Support team is going to be a round-the-clock team. Always adding content into the game whenever they can, while watching over some events to document ideas, statistics and opinions. They said that their staff is about 5 times larger than the Guild Wars staff and it's obvious that they'll need it to be adding content while we go to sleep from a long day of questing.

Holiday Events?! - Yes, they said they will have some great Holiday events, but that they need to work with the events being less Human Centric and more world-centric. The one they mentioned was The Mad King for a holiday event that is soon to come apparently.. (probably an October one?) They have already started crafting The Mad King's art concept, character and they even have his VO prepared.

Whelp, that's everything in my notes (besides the miles of my stupidity scribbled in them) - go nuts. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by The Mesmer (talk • contribs) at 21:04 (UTC).

Nice, thanks for sharing. Btw. it's "Orr" and "orrian". Gnarf 21:12, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

As far as I understood it, they have 8 dungeons in total ingame. Not just in Orr. Gnarf 22:41, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Update infobox to new style?

The infobox for the archives is still in the generic style, plain and boring. Can someone update it? My skills are lacking.--David 19:09, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

It's a navbox, not an infobox (infoboxes are those in the upper-right corner), but I've updated it. —Dr Ishmael 19:17, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you so much Ishmael, looks a lot better! --David 20:07, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Stress Test Tomorrow!!!

From the Official Facebook page:

We will be conducting a stress test tomorrow Tuesday, August 21 from 12:00 Noon PACIFIC Time to 4:00 PM PACIFIC Time.

We will be actively working on the game during the event, so you might experience connectivity problems or discover features that are not working as designed.

Any issues you experience are a result of the rigorous conditions of the stress test, and are in no way representative of the state of the game at launch.

By participating in this stress test, you’re helping us make Guild Wars 2 a better game. Thanks for your cooperation—we’ll see you in-game!

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Please note:

• The stress test is open to anyone who has pre-purchased Guild Wars 2.
• Characters will not be wiped from the previous Stress Test.
• The Stress Test will include Spanish text localization. ~RB2

Where/how do we publish this? I'm a bit rusty so if someone else is kind enough to do it for me it'd be awesome.--reanor 00:41, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

It was already posted to Template:News, which appears on the Main_Page. — Burfo 01:16, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Outdated?

Isn't this page a bit outdated to be pinned as a 2nd link right below the logo? Also, there's new section in Main Page, isn't this page redundant?
—Faalagorn☎/✓ 03:49, 29 August 2012 (UTC).

Yeah, it's outdated. I have an interview I found that wasn't posted anywhere (a user from reddit pointed it out). The new section in the Main Page doesn't appear to archive anywhere either, so as stuff is removed, I think it gets lost forever. I don't know enough about wiki editing to propose a solution, but I agree it's a problem. Xfraze 07:24, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

I sent in a ticket a while ago because we're having trouble trying to get old news articles from their main news site. Other then that, this page is becoming redundant. --Xu Davella 04:27, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Several months later, not one update in all of November and most of October. Agreed with the deletion tag. --Xeeron 14:11, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

I guess you just delete the link out of Mediawiki:Sidebar right? (afaik you can't direct sidebar links to external sites..) And actually, I wouldn't delete the page, I'd just remove the link to it from the sidebar. (got loads of archived versions) --Chieftain Alex 15:43, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

A bit late, maybe, but I'd argue this article should be at least used as an archive. The link shouldn't be in the sidebar in the first place, imo. - Infinite - talk 12:51, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

After some research, external links can be used in the sidebar, but idk about formatting them. (any link will be redundant with the probable introduction of the anet-mast. -Chieftain Alex 00:04, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

While agreeing with the removal from the sidebar, I do disagree with the deletion of the page though. In my opinion, documenting news is important and we should definitely maintain an archive of news on the wiki. poke | talk 15:21, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

(Reset indent) We could move this page to "Pre-release news" and then we wouldn't have to update this page ever again.. -Chieftain Alex 18:55, 4 October 2014 (UTC)