Guild Wars 2

Is anyone here following the development of Guild Wars 2? I mean I just can't wait any longer for the game to be released, everything looks picture perfect. I do respect arenanet for taking their time and making this game the best before release, but I am sometimes very impatient.

Who else is waiting eagerly for this game? Sometimes I feel like the only one on these forums haha..

You're not the only one, mate, I am watching that game closely myself. I hope it turns out to be all the things World of Warcraft isn't and then some. We'll see

From what I heard closed Alpha testing is going on right now to be followed by a short closed beta then a few weeks later by an open beta shortly before the release date. I hope it is worth the hype i have been playing GW since it came out in 04 while i was deployed Iraq and have been impatiently waiting for the release of the sequel since its original announcement. I love what i have heard so far about everything added and changed but i hope they don't add too much dynamics that it is so intensive it is unplayable , or resembles EVE online where you end up drained from no stop grinding.

Also, I think the beta will be very short since they have been testing their game since like forever haha.
I have a pretty good feeling the game will be released Q1 2012, maybe around February, but I would really happy if it came in December 2011.

not following too closely but waiting to try this game. I've seen some trailers and it looks fantastic, I'm probably going to be picking between GW2 and SWtoR, but I'm leaning towards this game so far.

at least to me, guildwars 2 is a huge dissapointment.

i know it is hard to judge a game which is not even out of alpha/beta yet but they changed the key elements which made the original guildwars great.

some elements (actually quite a few) i do like and are definitely an improvement but others severely crutch the game. these include such things as non-death, no triad, no support class (monks, rits) as well as having 4/5 skill slots tied to weapons with another tied to a heal. this severely limits build combinations you can make (which is what anet wants no doubt). oh and there are no secondary classes anymore.

i might be a minority here nowdays but some of us who played through the good days of gw (pre nightfall) feel much the same way. oh well, it was good while it lasted.

Not everyone,I know you say some of us but that "some of us" must be a small number. I have talked to a number of ppl in GW on a daily basis and I have maybe came accross maybe 10 ppl that werent excited about GW2. I have been playing GW since first beta of prophecies. I loved GW since, yes there are going to be changes that we are just gonna have to get used to but i can say GW2 discussion comes up a lot in our guild chat or alliance. There are a ton of us that cant wait for GW2. Thats like comparing the titanic to a canoe. Everyone that wants GW2 in the titanic and the rest in the canoe.