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The closed beta for Guild Wars 2 may be just around the corner, according to its developer ArenaNet.
The studio has announced the beta will begin this year “for sure”.
This news comes after a Korean report picked up by MMOCrunch stated that Guild Wars 2 would be shown in mid-November at the Korean game show G-Star following the start of the beta.
Speaking at the Eurogamer Expo, lead content designer Colin Johanson told Eurogamer:
“We’re going to go into closed beta by the end of this year for sure.
“We’re in closed alpha right now. We’re going to go into closed beta by the end of this year. Based on the outcome of the closed beta, that will determine our open beta schedule. Based on the outcome of the open beta, that’s going to determine our release date.
“If we tear through the beta and everything’s super positive then obviously it’ll come out faster. And if we go into the beta process and we see things we want to change, then we have the luxury of having the time to be able to sit down and fix that stuff.
“We really don’t know when release is going to be, because we want time to react to things and upgrade and everything.”
A Guild Wars 2 mobile app is also currently in the works, allowing users to chat to each other even away from the PC.
Guild Wars 2
- Platform(s): macOS, PC
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fantasy, Massively Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online, RPG