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Guild Wars 2: New Demo Headed to PAX East

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129

Attendees at this year's PAX East convention will have the opportunity to experience Guild Wars 2 via an entirely new demo over last year's. The new demo will debut in Boston during the convention scheduled for March 11-13, 2011. The Arena.Net team will also be on hand for a panel discussion and will be in attendance during the NCSoft Meet & Greet event on the 11th.

What would a convention be without panels? On Saturday, March 12 at PAX East, ArenaNet will host the “Guild Wars 2 – Fantasy MMO Redefined” panel. This discussion runs from 3PM to 4PM, and will feature Colin Johanson, Jon Peters, Tirzah Bauer, and more. In addition, Colin will also be part of the MMORPG.com panel “The Future of Online Games” at 5 PM at the Naga Theater. He’s a busy guy!

But that’s not all, folks. Our very own Community wizard Regina Buenaobra will be featured on two panels at PAX East this year: “What the Heck is a Community Manager?” on Friday, March 11 at 3:30 PM and “One of Us” on Sunday, March 13 at 12:00 PM. All times are subject to change, of course.

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  • Soldier101Soldier101 Member Posts: 111

    I wish that i could attend pax to play the demo.

  • PigozzPigozz Member UncommonPosts: 886

    ANET is evil!!!

    First they let us dry out in the sun for four months and then they flood us with these news and throw us into this brand new hype machine

    Damn you Anet and your sexy GW2!!:D

    I think I actually spent way more time reading and theorycrafting about MMOs than playing them

  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,955

    Originally posted by Soldier101

    I wish that i could attend pax to play the demo.

    Depends on how they make it available and one's patience.

    At both PAX and PAX east there are sometimes huge lines to get on these machines. Whereas with Aion their entire area just had computers that everyone could walk up to and play.

    I'm not sure I have the interest to wait in line for 45 minutes so that I can play 5 minutes of a video game.

    We'll see.

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  • Loke666Loke666 Member EpicPosts: 21,441

    That is great news. :D

    I hope they show some PvP this time, that would mean  that the game is closer to release than I dared to hope. The PvE seems to be pretty well done besides the last 3 classes and maybe some of the races personal storyline but we heard very little about PvP and balancing it is probably the hardest job there is with a new game.

  • talonsgrasptalonsgrasp Member Posts: 11

    Since I can't attend and play the demo myself, I expect all of you to take vids :p  I'm excited to see more gameplay footage!  I wanna see the guardian in action, especially.

  • illyanaillyana Member UncommonPosts: 614

    Originally posted by Sovrath



    Originally posted by Soldier101

    I wish that i could attend pax to play the demo.

    Depends on how they make it available and one's patience.

    At both PAX and PAX east there are sometimes huge lines to get on these machines. Whereas with Aion their entire area just had computers that everyone could walk up to and play.

    I'm not sure I have the interest to wait in line for 45 minutes so that I can play 5 minutes of a video game.

    We'll see.


     

    at PAX, players were given 1 hour of GW2 playtime and while waiting in line, ANET devs were chatting with them, thats not something that you usually experience during game conventions. i dont think anyone who got to PAX last year consider it a waste of time demoing GW2 :P

    can't wait for the flood of new videos and info on march!

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  • MustBeBadMustBeBad Member Posts: 74

    Originally posted by Sovrath



    Originally posted by Soldier101

    I wish that i could attend pax to play the demo.

    Depends on how they make it available and one's patience.

    At both PAX and PAX east there are sometimes huge lines to get on these machines. Whereas with Aion their entire area just had computers that everyone could walk up to and play.

    I'm not sure I have the interest to wait in line for 45 minutes so that I can play 5 minutes of a video game.

    We'll see.


     

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  • ElikalElikal Member UncommonPosts: 7,912

    Any videos of it?

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  • bobbyjrbobbyjr Member Posts: 119

    Originally posted by Elikal

    Any videos of it?

    Only if you an travel 5 weeks into the future, record it tne travel 5 weeks back.

  • AnirethAnireth Member UncommonPosts: 940

    I don't think PvE is done except the last 3 classes. They barely managed to announce the guardian, half of the questions in the IRC interview they gave could not be answered because "not finalized" etc. And 3 classes is huge, even when only looking at PvE.

    And the strings attached to PvP..

    Anyways, looking forward to it. Hope they'll provide some good videos straight away,.

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  • EricDanieEricDanie Member UncommonPosts: 2,238

    Can't wait until they actually provide a public demo like their first GW1 unveil, the "E3 for Everyone" Event in which anyone in the world could play, not only the people attending the event.

    They have my respect since that event.

  • eye_meye_m Member UncommonPosts: 3,317

    Originally posted by bobbyjr

    Originally posted by Elikal

    Any videos of it?

    Only if you an travel 5 weeks into the future, record it tne travel 5 weeks back.


     

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    Originally posted by Sovrath

    I'm not sure I have the interest to wait in line for 45 minutes so that I can play 5 minutes of a video game.


     

    Right now, I would stand in line for 45 minutes to watch somebody else play GW2. 

     

     

     

    With the chance of having a class release with PAX (6/8),  actual release may be sooner then 2012.

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  • DwarvishDwarvish Member Posts: 208

     Not going to make it to PAX but the ANet site does a great job of explaining the how and what of the game. The graphics are light years ahead of the original.

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