Beta news & bits

I've not seen any official announcements, but evidently some people in forums were disappointed that the b eta will be on the 27th and not the 20th. I kind of expected that, given the concerns for available server capacity (and how well the beta forums are working currently. Currently the beta forum home page has this:

There was a horrible error! Try going back home?

...and the link takes you to the forum home page, which is where the error appears.

That aside, there's a set of beta videos from a chap that calls himself cynical (and he is somewhat...) He keeps calling the chars 'Cows', not helped that he gives them the biggest horns possible, making them look from behind like... um. .. cows. He's not a GW player, so it gives an interesting perspective (he likes his stabbie-stabbie)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-UZFu7yZEw&feature=plcp&context=C4d912d0VDvjVQa1PpcFPmU4rYsxQ0vWi53RdMiQ8unfofzRAL5_M%3D

//Yamagawa

ya I figured it would be the last weekend in April, since they did keep saying at the end of April lol. Any how, gives me more time to make sure I have every bit of hw and studying done. If only I could escape work on weekends.... Bleh

Wish they would announce the beta already!

It'll be on the 27th, not the 20th. There's a management technique to this, if you want a quality product, and Guildwars is clearly intended to be Quality.

1) Announce to the staff on the 10th that you'll be holding the beta in Ten days (8 business days and change). The staff has that long, and no longer, to have everything perfect.

2) Everyone rushes to get everything done on time.
3) Invariably, one or more things will lag behind. Not always the fault of the team, sometimes there are external dependencies, and there's only so much you can threaten, cajole, or bribe a supplier who's late.
4) The evening of the 19th rolls around. Management announces 'Due to delays in completing some tasks, we are pushing the beta back to the 27th. This is all your fault, don't dare think of failing us again.' (not those words, the words are more supportive or everyone'd quit. But the mood must be maintained via back channels).
5) Everyone cringes some, knuckles under, and works harder.
6) The 26th rolls around, every task has been slotted into either 'Done', 'Fixed', or 'Patched' or 'Not Important Enough'.
7) The 27th rolls around, everyone, except a few unlucky server peeps goes out for a drink, pagers stapled to their belts just in case something doesn't work quite right over the weekend.

And not really related to the management style, but par for the course:
The 28th hasn't quite dawned yet, a pager goes off at 4:15 AM. Some hapless and hung over dev spends 10 minutes looking at a "Critically urgent problem" and decides 'Eh. It'll last the weekend without real problems.' If it's really noticible, he drafts a memo to support, who update content appropriately. It's not, so there is no memo to support, just a note: "Non critical. Filed for future resolution" forwarded to support, dev, and management.
9) Beta event concludes without additional drama.

//Yamagawa

lol nice!

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Weekend of the 27th.

Looks like they let the dev team know 'failure' a day early.
//Yamagawa

bat me to it.
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About content and timing for the Beta Event (April 27-29): The blog post will tell you all about it,please be patient for a bit longer:) ^MK

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hmmm hopefully the set times arnt when im at work!....

And now the hype train has officially begun to move again. Pretty excited about the beta coming, but did they seriously have to put it on the weekend right before finals for me?

ik right??? my finals are only 2 weeks after that weekend. argh!@#$ plus i think i have a test that monday. and lost of work that weekend.
P.s ill be livestreaming at livestream.com/korhal if you know anyone you wants to see the game in action but hasn't pre purchased.

[OH] livestream? I'm so down to be in that, gotta get a lot of studying in this week then lol

yea dude once the game releases and i move into pvp mode im going to start live streaming everything. my comp can handle it no prob and my connection to.
ya this weekend and next week will be massive studying for me. but ill have stupid work sched that weekend of beta. so idk if ill even catch the hours i can play.

Bummer about your schedule.

Whether or not you get into the beta, do grab the download. Dollars to doughts, it'll update the game between beta versions and from beta to live, so nabbing it early will save on download times for when you do eventually get in.

//Yamagawa

wel yea ill down load it for sure. ill probably get to play. they will be annoucing times today.

OK cool, beta is 60hrs, so means its open pretty much whole weekend.
I'll get to play Friday and maybe sat. Few hours Sunday as well.

I wonder when they will start pushing the dl

I would guess tomorrow or Wednesday, that way there is plenty of time to get the client to everyone.

Well if there talking hundreds of thousands of ppl, I'd hope sooner....

Ditto

Well obviously not today bleh!

Give us download nowzors!!!!

Found the DL page, but, from my device says: 'not available'. Either that means that they don't have gw clients for iPod yet, or it's just no available.

(I'd give the URL, but I've heard that accounts that logged in there prematurely were 'broken'... Probably fixed by now, but seriously, nothing to look at yet.)

//Yamagawa

Saw the post on GW2G about the client, not going to risk it, especially with the university having a 6GB limit per day for downloading. As soon as I get that official email though, screw the limit I'll take an infraction on the last week of school just get it downloaded faster. I think the link will be emailed out within the next 4 or so hours (well I'm hoping at least).

#GuildWars2 We've started sending out emails with instructions for where/how to download the Beta client. Thanks for your patience; happy patching! ^MK

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOiv8OM5taf8&v=Oiv8OM5taf8&gl=US

Info on bwe1

502 Bad Gateway

Looks like the great beta download event of 2012 has formally begun!

Good hunting!
//Yamagawa

Lol, ya got my email. Won't be able to try till 10pm

For anyone stuck on the 502 errors, I've pulled the following from the official GW2 download page:

http://cloudfront.guildwars2.com/client/Gw2.exe

Instructions are:

• Download the Guild Wars 2 executable file.
  
• Create a file folder on your computer where you wish to install the game, and move the executable file there. This is where the game will save data whenever it updates. Note: If you use Windows Vista or Windows 7, it is recommended that you install the game in a location other than the Program Files folder. Alternatively, you should run the game as an administrator.
  
• Run the executable file.
  
• Allow the game to patch the necessary data from our file servers.
  
• Enjoy!
  

//Yamagawa

502 should be pretty much fixed now lol. How big is the dl yama?

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