Guild Wars 2

That is my prediction. beta in a few weeks. only a select few. Then ramp up to more invites over the course a few months.

It wont be that late – the game just couldn’t survive going that long without new content. I`m thinking in about 4 months from now.

I just hope it’s before August. I would rather not have a long wait to deal with.

Anet break up for Christmas for the entirety of mid-late December – I believe on a split shift system (judging by comments made from a few devs on the forums this past Xmas). There is no way they will have an expansion released with anything short of a full crew on hand to celebrate, tweet and monitor for bugs and urgent fixes.

I’m betting it’s out in time for when the kiddies get out of school. If it stretched to late summer or fall even, then it collides with Halloween/Christmas content. It will suck because as much as anyone tests, they will have to fix things.

If any of you have paid any attention you would have realized that maybe marketting for the stores has aleady begun. Angry Joe already has shown us in his interview 2 Heart of Thorns wooden boxes with the title carved on the cover. Secondly this si not a full game and thirdly beta tests have never been very long with Anet.
Even if they mention not knowing the launch I’m betting they will try their best for a GW 1’s 10th anniversary for a GW 2 launch date. Worst case scenario mid May.

Some Devs mentioned weekly deep-dives for each Specialization. Thus, 9 weeks of information-releases. That would probably mean summer at the earliest.

No one but the Devs (and they might not even know, yet) knows when HoT will be released.

I’m betting around August. In time for the third anniversary of GW2

The devs stated in some interviews at Pax East that each specialization will get it’s own week of talk. Add in Guild Halls, Guild updates, and WvW and you’re looking at 12 weeks easily and doesn’t include any other filler weeks like we had last week. End of june is the earliest I’d expect it and August for the anniversary seems plausible.

In the MatVisual interview Colin seemed to consider 6 months to be around about the time to release (although not stated directly as such). So that means about August (not counting February). Hoping for July though, only because I want it asap.

Why on earth would ANET releases their expansion at one of the worst times of the year? Late December and January are the lowest selling months of the year, it is why games rarely if ever come out during that time period.

ANET will try there hardest to release between August and November, which is the best window for releasing games. The only thing they might do is try to avoid another games launch time but there are not any MMOs coming out of note this year that would compete.

I hope it won’t be that late, it would be a hard blow… Just imagine: they said there won’t be any substantial update (aka nothing except recycled events and cash shop items), we’re already 2 months after the last step of our story, and HoT will happen minutes after… “Minutes”.

I don’t mind having like 4 months of nothing, but now they are planning around 8 months of nothing (since Ep.8)… They sure don’t have to rush their content but even if they release the game in one year there will be bugs all around (and that’s normal).

If it’s true they will take one week per specialisation… That’s 9 weeks, plus many weeks for each feature… That’s bad de the game and the players…

August is by far the most likely time period for release. I could imagine it earlier, but the summer time is pretty bad for release. If so, early summer instead… but thats not so much time left.

A december release is only likely if they suddenly remember they forgot to make half the content.

They are diving right into closed beta without NDA. Considering arenanet is very tight lipped the game must be along quite a way.

The demo they showed so far is not really representative of how far along they are as it has been deliberately cut to keep things secret.

We estimate two to five weeks.

Underdark.3726:

We estimate two to five weeks.

That would be the best time frame (though 2 is a bit fast). However, rumor has it (and by rumor I mean someones that might have had contacts with the devs during Pax East) that one week per specialisation would be required. That’s nine weeks juste for the specs, which means at least 3 more for other aspects (guild halls, new borderland, story?), and that’s, imho, far too much, since there are many game features that don’t need to be built (endurance, invisible walls, animations, etc.).

In the end, we’re just left with hope we won’t have to wait another 5 months to finish the Living Story that began 9 months ago (that’s less than an episode per month).

December is a little extreme I wager 1 copper (ooo look at me Mr big spender) late spring - mid summer because it’s HoT what else does that spell HOT HOT HOT. Hot weather hot season ... (Ignore me I’m hyper AS usual)

I predict on the third anniversary of the game.

Rebound.3409:

I predict on the third anniversary of the game.

I agree, this was about the time original beta started and it was a full game and it was released in September. So since they already know what there doing from releasing living stories, it would be that at the latest if not sooner.

studark.5917:

Rebound.3409:

I predict on the third anniversary of the game.

I agree, this was about the time original beta started and it was a full game and it was released in September. So since they already know what there doing from releasing living stories, it would be that at the latest if not sooner.

Honestly, if it means less bugs, more quality content, and an overall better experience, then I am okay with waiting this long. Too often these days will a game or expansion be released and it was rushed, so it is garbage.

A few people have said it and I’m willing to agree/bet on the idea that HoT will “likely” release around the same time as the anniversary. So about Mid-August to Early September seems like a reasonable guess; but time will tell. As they said the game will be ready when it’s ready and they’re likely willing to delay it depending on how much spit n’ polish she needs.

I believe someone had leaked the investors notes about a bump in revenue in 4th quarter.

Joey.2769:

I believe someone had leaked the investors notes about a bump in revenue in 4th quarter.

A bump? Did they use that word? If so, that’s not a very strong word. It probably “bumps” a bit every 4th quarter because of Christmas.