Guild Wars 2 Beta in the Second Half of 2011

During the financial conference call held in Korea on May 17th, NCsoft has announced that the Guild Wars 2 beta will begin in the second half of 2011. It has also been mentioned in an interview with IncGamers, "We are definitely on target for a Closed Beta this year. We're going to do a closed Alpha and Beta test and we're totally on target for those things." Game designer John and Eric said.

But the bad news is that it is probably Guild Wars 2 won't be released until 2012, according to chief financial officer Jaeho Lee. "Starting from year 2012, we believe substantial growth will be driven by new blockbuster titles like [Blade & Soul] and Guild Wars 2," he said to investors.

Guild Wars 2 was originally announced in 2007. So far, it has been developed for more than 4 years and the whole dev team is still working very hard at this highly-anticipated and long-awaited project. But ArenaNet's tenet for the release window is "When it's ready". Obviously, they don't rush to hit a confirmed release date before Guild Wars 2 is really prepared for launch.

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