Guild Wars 2

Youtube still streams 1080p for me perfectly, the only times I ever had issues like that with it was when I was on Plusnet and they would limit your streaming from Youtube to essentially 56k of an evening, even 360p would need minutes to buffer a few seconds :(
 
FYI - On that GW2 video that refused to stream. It took 90 minutes to buffer it all for watching.

Just got JDownloader to try as it can extract the file locations from a YT link and download directly. Downloaded at my bandwidth cap (~19Mbit/Sec) but still streamed at less than 30KB/Sec on the actual YT website.
 
@sin - Had a very similar issue with YT a couple weeks back, lasted about 5 days where it was completely un-usable.

Really should stop reading up on GW2, although I'm glad people are sticking to the NDA for the majority of points as there haven't really been any 'spoilers', just game mechanics and some talk about the changes to the lore, which you can find out in the books.

Avid GW1 fan, seriously psyched for this. I'd imagine we're looking at a September release date - anyone else want to throw their opinions out on release dates?
 
They seem to be happy that the game is going well, but keep saying that there is "still work to be done" - Considering they're going to want to get a good few beta weekend in, just to see what happens when thousands of people descend on the world.

Realistically? Considering there has been talk of balance issues (great swords, dungeon boss, impossible enemies) that they are working on - and the lack of silvari and asura content seem so far, I get the feeling they're still polishing things.

I would say that the content is finished, it's just how many issues people come across, the press say it feels solid but you hear pieces of info that make you think it's say 85-90% there rather than basically done.
 
Serpantine said:
They seem to be happy that the game is going well, but keep saying that there is "still work to be done" - Considering they're going to want to get a good few beta weekend in, just to see what happens when thousands of people descend on the world.

Realistically? Considering there has been talk of balance issues (great swords, dungeon boss, impossible enemies) that they are working on - and the lack of silvari and asura content seem so far, I get the feeling they're still polishing things.

I would say that the content is finished, it's just how many issues people come across, the press say it feels solid but you hear pieces of info that make you think it's say 85-90% there rather than basically done.
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I forget where I read it but they have hinted that they are holding back on Sylvari and Asura because they don't want to give everything away before launch - we've also seen both races being played (admittedly at games expo's) to a high level. As for a date, I'd be surprised if it wasn't released before the end of June. Taking pre-purchases without at least some idea when a release might be possible risks serious nerd-rage, and September would be too long. A June release allows for three more beta weekends and, from what I've seen, we aren't a million miles away from a completed product.

Of course, it's all pure guess work atm, perhaps we'll know more tomorrow.
 
For everyone pre-purchasing, GW on twitter has let slip they have the beta weekend scheduled for the end of the month, which would make sense to give everyone chance to download the game.

So, either the weekend of the 21st or 28th - See you there.

@MoratJG - Yea, you're right about them saving content it has been mentioned at PAX a few times, I'm almost in agreement about the June launch but I want to be pessimistic on this one, just because of the whole 'when it's done' mentality being thrown around.
 
The only person i know that got into the beta so far keeps going about how good the game is but is lacking a lot of polish on vent. Normally he's quite forgiving of games so it's a bit worrying to hear him harp on about the lack of polish.

We already know we're not getting a release date tomorrow so i wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't come out till after summer.
 
HaggisUK said:
The only person i know that got into the beta so far keeps going about how good the game is but is lacking a lot of polish on vent. Normally he's quite forgiving of games so it's a bit worrying to hear him harp on about the lack of polish.

We already know we're not getting a release date tomorrow so i wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't come out till after summer.
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It is very good, wasn't blown away by it though!

I think a September release too.
 
Does pre-purchase give you access to anything other than the beta weekend? I've got important exams coming up, so can't really make use of a beta weekend :(
 
Judgeneo said:
Does pre-purchase give you access to anything other than the beta weekend? I've got important exams coming up, so can't really make use of a beta weekend :(
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It gives you an extra item, some band thingy that probably won't be all that useful. But more importantly you get 3 days head start rather than 1 day if you were only to pre order.
 
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