Guild Wars 2

This upcoming closed beta we are all farming silver wastes and dry top for, will it be something new or will it just be the same old demo from pax, rezzed and the previous beta?

There have not been any beta before this.
There was a stress-test that used the already completed demo.

It is rather likely that the upcoming beta will include more stuff. Specifically the new core specialization and such seems like a safe bet at the very least.

I’d hope so, I’m probably not getting in but I’d love to see some more content, if only to assure myself that the release date can’t be that far off…

Same old, I’d say. Specializations are still in development, new maps might be viewed as too much spoilers, and they would not ship really new, untested stuff to us, because most of us here are not a professional testers (read: fear of poor feedback and hype dying down out of lack of distance to the fact this is beta version of content and not final game).

Also what would they hype about if beta contained new stuff their blog posts didn’t cover yet? For weeks to come they’d be getting “We played that already and made our own vids about, quit stalling”.

ZeftheWicked.3076:

Same old, I’d say.

Still, it’s amazing how bad ArenaNet’s communication about this beta has been. Would it have hurt them to actually give more information about the beta before throwing the big “go grind to join beta!” announcement?

I wonder if the number of daily player log-ins fell and they hurried to make this way to access beta in order to save face.