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Guild Wars Dragon Festival July 2nd-5th
Submitted on July 2, 2009 by Inde
The Dragon Festival has officially begun! There are special festival awards, events such as the Shing Jea Boardwalk, rollerbeetle racing, special quests, the Dragon Arena and more! You can check out all the details on the GuildWars.com website here: Dragon Festival 2009. You can also head over to our Riverside Inn to discuss the festival in our thread: Dragon Festival Announced and check out the new Imperial Dragon Mask.
Guild Wars Xunlai Tournament House Being Taken Down
Submitted on June 24, 2009 by Inde
Regina Buenaobra, Community Manager, stopped by Riverside Inn to let us know an important announcement. See a snipet below:
We realize that the Xunlai Tournament House
points distribution has been problematic in the past. We were faced
with either taking Xunlai Tournament House down to resolve the issues,
or running into similar problems with the point distribution in the
next month.
We’ve decided to take Xunlai down to ensure the issues are thoroughly resolved. As soon as we have a good estimate on when it will be available again we will let you know.
We’ve decided to take Xunlai down to ensure the issues are thoroughly resolved. As soon as we have a good estimate on when it will be available again we will let you know.
Stop by and read the full announcement here: Xunlai Tournament House News.
Guild Wars News: Removing Heroes from GvG/HA and New Live Test Crew
Submitted on June 19, 2009 by Inde
Regina Buenaobra has made 2 very important announcements you'll want to check out and discuss:
- Removing Heroes from GvG and HA. This is something that many players have been asking for for a long time. We still want people to be able to participate in the action even if they can’t field a full team, so we will replace Heroes with a bunch of new Henchmen. We are currently working on the details, so we can’t give you a concrete timeline, but we do know that we want you to be involved. We’re looking for suggestions on the skills you want to see for those Henchmen, so start thinking about those skill bars!
- Introducing a Guild Wars Live Test Krewe to help test upcoming updates and skill changes. We’re opening up the testing process to players, and if you are selected you will be able to access our test server and directly interact with our developers! We’ll put up an application form on our website once we finalize all the details. Two things in advance: due to legal reasons, you need to be at least 18 if you want to apply, and you need to speak and write English fluentl
Latest Guild Wars Skill Update & News on XTH Points
Submitted on June 19, 2009 by Inde
The latest Guild Wars Skill Update has been posted and you can head over to our Riverside Inn to see all the changes, the dev notes and discuss your viewpoint on it here: Update 06/18/09
Regina Buenaobra, Community Relations, also stopped by to give some news on the latest XTH Points:
"Hey, so we're aware that some players haven't received their XTH points. We're sorry about the confusion and inconvenience. Please contact our customer support team so they can help you out with that."
Guild Wars Community News
Submitted on June 15, 2009 by Inde
News from GuildWars.com:
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Guild Wars 2 Concept Art
Submitted on June 4, 2009 by Inde
Some Guild Wars 2 Concept Art from Kekai Kotaki and Daniel Dociu was revealed at E3 2009 at their video game art exhibition "Into The Pixel". Their artwork was picked out of 200 submissions to show so a big congratulations to them! You can see some thumbnails below but you'll want to check it out in our Riverside Inn thread for the full-size images here: Concept Art from GW2
Guild Wars News: Free Pane Promotion Extended
Submitted on May 30, 2009 by Inde
| Free Pane Promotion: Extended! | 28 May 2009 |
| We're extending our 4 Year Anniversary Free Xunlai Storage Pane Promotion! You now have until June 30 to claim your free pane of storage from the NCsoft store. For more details on how to get the free storage pane, please visit this page. | |
The Ascalon Royal Family Masquerade Ball 09 - May 31st
Submitted on May 28, 2009 by Inde
The Ascalon Royal Family Masquerade Ball is a long forgotten formal event, engraved into history years before the searing. The Kingdom of Ascalon was once prosperous, led by King Adelbern and the Royal Family. During such times the ball was the yearly celebration to celebrate the wealth and beauty that was Ascalon. But alas, The Searing as it has come to be known shattered the hearts of men. The ball had been forgotten for many years. Lord Sojar, in his travels, stumbled upon an old text depicting a dance festival of epic proportions in the realm of Ascalon since past. Intrigued, he did further research. After painstaking tasks, Lord Sojar begged the wealthiest of the lords of Ascalon and surrounding kingdom of Kryta to donate what they saw fit to bring back this beautiful festival. With the return of the Masquerade Ball, a curious wind blew about the place on that night two years ago, many didn’t realize an envoy had arrived. The second year after the ball, people looked for the wandering Lord Sojar, little did they know he had fallen ill and retired to his estate. This time the winds blew stronger as citizens of Ascalon despaired that the ball would not commence. And just when the Festival seemed lost a silk hat landed in the middle of the ball room floor...
Contributors for the Masquerade Ball's third anniversary:
* Daniel Frozenwind
* The Scions of Carver[SCAR]
* The Eternal Night Vanguard [TEN]
* GuildwarsGuru (Please donate community!)
* Bladeradio
* The Scions of Carver[SCAR]
* The Eternal Night Vanguard [TEN]
* GuildwarsGuru (Please donate community!)
* Bladeradio
The Ascalon Royal Family Masquerade Ball is back again this year! The event is taking place on May 31st with the event beginning at 19:00/7PM GMT in the Serenity Temple, International District. You don't want to miss out on this fun community event with costume contests, food and drinks, gambling, prizes, 100k+ Design a Poster Competition and even a Text Mod to see all the specially created decorations. Head over to the thread and get all the details and sign up to help out.
Guild Wars News - Developer Updates
Submitted on May 22, 2009 by Inde
| New Developer Update! | 21 May 2009 |
| The latest Developer Update, discussing this month's skill balance changes, is now available. Head on over to the Developer Update page for more details! | |
New from the Technician's Corner
Submitted on May 16, 2009 by Rahja the Thief
New this week from the Technician's Corner is "Tech Insight", a weekly address created to inform our readers about up and coming technology news, inside opinion, and the who and what behind the tech.
Be sure to drop by and check it out. You can find it here: Tech Insight
"AMD's Gambit, will it work?
Consider for a moment where AMD was 4 years ago. Consider where they are now. Now, look at why they were there 4 years ago, and what fundamentally brought them there. They developed a 64 bit processor with an amazing register system capable of 32+32 operation. Intel stumbled and eventually fell to AMD, losing huge tracts of market share to the Athlon64."
Consider for a moment where AMD was 4 years ago. Consider where they are now. Now, look at why they were there 4 years ago, and what fundamentally brought them there. They developed a 64 bit processor with an amazing register system capable of 32+32 operation. Intel stumbled and eventually fell to AMD, losing huge tracts of market share to the Athlon64."
Drop over to the Technician's Corner every Saturday for a new edition of "Tech Insight", and give your opinion on the changing landscape of technology.
Guild Wars News
Submitted on May 7, 2009 by Inde
News from GuildWars.com:
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April Tournament Updates | 7 May 2009 |
In April GvG tournament news, Straight Outta Kamadan [KMD] defeated History Repeats Itself [Cry] to claim this month's championship. In the 1v1 tournament, I N San Ity proved victorious over Viet Mangeur De Nem to become April's 1v1 champion. For the complete list of rankings, check out the full GvG and 1v1 results. After today's live update, we will be adding April's prediction points to the Xunlai Agent. If you made April predictions in the Xunlai Tournament House, check your neighborhood Xunlai Agent after the build to claim your Tournament Reward Points. Finally, this update will also replace April's Unseen Tonic in the Zaishen Chest with May's Phantasmal Tonic. To see the full tonic rotation, check out the Zaishen Rewards Calendar. | ||
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Xunlai Tournament House Remodel |
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We're excited to announce that our remodel of the Xunlai Tournament House is complete! We went through the site and gave it a complete overhaul, which will make voting quicker, easier, and more secure than ever before. Check out our guide to the new features here, and then head over to the Xunlai Tournament House and make your predictions for the May Tournament winners! | ||
Guild Wars Community Event: The Ascalon Royal Family Masquerade Ball 09
Submitted on May 5, 2009 by Inde
The Ascalon Royal Family Masquerade Ball is a long forgotten formal event, engraved into history years before the searing. The Kingdom of Ascalon was once prosperous, led by King Adelbern and the Royal Family. During such times the ball was the yearly celebration to celebrate the wealth and beauty that was Ascalon. But alas, The Searing as it has come to be known shattered the hearts of men. The ball had been forgotten for many years. Lord Sojar, in his travels, stumbled upon an old text depicting a dance festival of epic proportions in the realm of Ascalon since past. Intrigued, he did further research. After painstaking tasks, Lord Sojar begged the wealthiest of the lords of Ascalon and surrounding kingdom of Kryta to donate what they saw fit to bring back this beautiful festival. With the return of the Masquerade Ball, a curious wind blew about the place on that night two years ago, many didn’t realize an envoy had arrived. The second year after the ball, people looked for the wandering Lord Sojar, little did they know he had fallen ill and retired to his estate. This time the winds blew stronger as citizens of Ascalon despaired that the ball would not commence. And just when the Festival seemed lost a silk hat landed in the middle of the ball room floor...
Contributors for the Masquerade Ball's third anniversary:
* Daniel Frozenwind
* The Scions of Carver[SCAR]
* The Eternal Night Vanguard [TEN]
* GuildwarsGuru (Please donate community!)
* Bladeradio
* The Scions of Carver[SCAR]
* The Eternal Night Vanguard [TEN]
* GuildwarsGuru (Please donate community!)
* Bladeradio
The Ascalon Royal Family Masquerade Ball is back again this year! The event is taking place on May 31st but they need the communities help. Event staff is needed as well as donations. You don't want to miss out on this fun community event with costume contests, food and drinks, gambling, prizes, 100k+ Design a Poster Competition and even a Text Mod to see all the specially created decorations. Head over to the thread and get all the details and sign up to help out.
Guild Wars 4th Anniversary Interviews
Submitted on May 1, 2009 by Inde
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Continuing with our anniversary celebrations, we've got more insider interviews for your reading pleasure!
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Guild Wars 4th Anniversary Special on air event!
Submitted on April 27, 2009 by Inde
Yes indeed, The Ascension show LIVE!!! with your host, LoneSamurai! and special guests Martin Kertstein and Regina Buenaobra starting April 28th 3pm GMT / 10 AM EST
Click the link for your player to tune in:
The residents of The Sardelac Sanitarium.FM take to the air waves in celebration of Guild Wars 4th birthday! The Sanitarium.FM brings you 15 hours of non stop birthday madness April 28th 2009, 3pm til 6am GMT (10am til 1am EST) in conjunction with ArenaNet guest dj's - Martin Kerstein and Regina Buenaobra.
As well as joining us in Sardelac Sanitarium, feel free to join us on IRC @ irc.sanitarium.fm:6667 #GuildWars or click the IRC - Javalink on the website @ http://www.sanitarium.fm
C'ya all there guys and we'll be taking live music requests via the website and IRC (to use the website request function, sign up to the forum at http://forum.sanitarium.fm and log in on the website to activate the request system) Crack open the Dwarven Ale!
Guild Wars 4th Anniversary Interview
Submitted on April 24, 2009 by Inde
Special thanks to LoneSamurai for pointing out that IGN has up an interview with Mike O'Brien for the Guild Wars 4th year anniversary celebration you'll want to read:
IGNPC: Can we expect Guild Wars 2 news this year? Will the game ship in 2009 or 2010?
Mike O'Brien: The Guild Wars 2 team is twice the size of the original Guild Wars team, so you can imagine the level of art, content, and production values we're putting into the game. The game is already beautiful, and is getting more so every day. In addition to the normal playtesting of everyday development, the entire team logs on every Wednesday to simply play the game together, and we always have a lot of fun.
Mike O'Brien: The Guild Wars 2 team is twice the size of the original Guild Wars team, so you can imagine the level of art, content, and production values we're putting into the game. The game is already beautiful, and is getting more so every day. In addition to the normal playtesting of everyday development, the entire team logs on every Wednesday to simply play the game together, and we always have a lot of fun.
Read the full interview in our Riverside Inn here: IGN Guild Wars 4th Anniversary Interview
Guild Wars Guru Guide to the 4 Year Celebration
Submitted on April 24, 2009 by Inde
RTSFirebat is back with your guide to the Guild Wars 4th year celebration! Inside you'll find the entire event schedule, all the game updates, collectibles, new info on storage, quests and the in-game store changes. Head over to our Riverside Inn to check it out: Complete Guide to the Guild Wars 4th Year Anniversary Celebration
Guild Wars 4 Year Anniversary Celebration
Submitted on April 23, 2009 by Inde
Guild Wars is celebrating it's 4th year! Check out some of these things ArenaNet has planned. The festivities begin on Thursday, April 23 after the live update and run until noon on Wednesday, April 29.
Games - You're in luck! Whether you're feeling "Lucky" (pun intended) or simply looking for some fun, the citizens of Shing Jea Monastery have once again reopened the Boardwalk. Found only in their village, the Shing Jea Boardwalk's games of chance will satisfy the most robust adventurers, and the more fortune-favored.
If you're after the competitive thrill, you can battle it out in the Dragon Arena or enter a Rollerbeetle Race.
Presents - In true birthday fashion, we'll once again have plenty of presents for you! Starting at 12:01 AM Pacific on Tuesday, April 28, characters turning four will find a gift in their inventories that has a new miniature from this year's birthday series.
Regarding the April 9 Guild Wars Game Update
Submitted on April 8, 2009 by Inde
Regina, Community Relations, stopped by our Riverside Inn to provide some information on the update coming tomorrow:
We just want to give you a quick heads-up. We know that you are expecting some skill balance updates coming with
tomorrow’s build. We will have our regular monthly build, bringing you
your Tournament Reward Points, changing the map rotation for the MAT
and updating the tonic flavor of the month, but unfortunately we will
be unable to do any skill changes.
We are aware that some of you will not be happy to hear this, but let us give you the reason for this, so you might understand our decision.
We are aware that some of you will not be happy to hear this, but let us give you the reason for this, so you might understand our decision.
To read the full message head here: Regarding the April 9 Game Update.
MantleCon 1079 AE - Guild Wars Community Event
Submitted on April 8, 2009 by Inde
MantleCon 1079 AE
Time has passed, and so has it been a while. Now we bring back the MantleCon. Temporarily called the Mursaat Rally for the past two years to bring out the support for our Unseen Lords, the time has come to bring out the MantleCon once more, but this time, Tyrian-Wide! Join the White Mantle celebrate its annual MantleCon. Drinks and food provided, of course. There will be events, there will be parties, and there will be fun!
When and Where:
April 11th - 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM [GMT]
There will be prizes, costume contests, and more! Check out all the info here: MantleCon 1079 AE. Make sure you view their YouTube trailer as well!
Guild Wars Policy Update
Submitted on April 2, 2009 by Inde
Regina Buenaobra, Community Manager, dropped by our Riverside Inn forum to let us know that Guild Wars has an updated Policy that you'll want to be aware of.
The first one is the Naming Policy. We currently have rules in our User Agreement
that give you brief guidelines on what types of names are allowed,
however, many felt that these guidelines were not clear enough. We have
published a Naming Policy that expands on the guidelines in the User
Agreement with a bit more detail and clarification on what is expected
when players name their characters or guilds.
Secondly, the Rules of Conduct and Conduct Breaches and Outcomes have been updated to clarify PvP conduct issues, specifically the issue of match manipulation and other types of PvP abuse, such as leeching. Earlier this year in our update to the Universal Tournament Rules, we stated that match manipulation was against the rules. After continuing confusion as to whether it was technically against the rules to engage in match manipulation outside of tournament play, we have updated the Rules of Conduct and Conduct Breaches and Outcomes to reflect our position that match manipulation and abuse is against the rules and the spirit of the game in all forms of PvP play.
Secondly, the Rules of Conduct and Conduct Breaches and Outcomes have been updated to clarify PvP conduct issues, specifically the issue of match manipulation and other types of PvP abuse, such as leeching. Earlier this year in our update to the Universal Tournament Rules, we stated that match manipulation was against the rules. After continuing confusion as to whether it was technically against the rules to engage in match manipulation outside of tournament play, we have updated the Rules of Conduct and Conduct Breaches and Outcomes to reflect our position that match manipulation and abuse is against the rules and the spirit of the game in all forms of PvP play.
Read the full statement here: Policy Updates
Join KISS & SICK for a Guild Wars Community Event
Submitted on March 30, 2009 by Inde
JOIN KISS & SICK AT THE EASTER MARAGON
Join KISS & SiCK as they celebrate the 3rd year of KISS as well as easter. They are holding a massive giveaway event over the easter weekend 11th-12th April '09 and invite the entire Guild Wars community to join in with the fun. Hundreds of items will be given away including: Golds, Greens, Tomes, and undedicated and dedicated mini pets and consumables. So come along and join the fun. More info and times of the event available HERE
Scions Of Carver Guild Wars Community Party - 21st March!
Submitted on March 17, 2009 by Inde
[SCAR] will be hosting an event for all the community, in Kamadan ID1 on March 21st, 3PM EST/7PM GMT. This is to celebrate both Guild Wars upcoming 4th year birthday as well as Easter! It’s an opportunity to bring many aspects of the Guild Wars community together and bring what has been described as a game dying out back to life! To succeed in trying to bring the community together we will be approaching from all variety of angles, including fun events run through forums, radio and in-game. There will be prizes, screenshot competitions, scavenger hunt, in game events and more!
Check out all the details: Scions Of Carver Community Party - 21st March!
Guild Wars Community News
Submitted on March 15, 2009 by Inde
Guild Wars Community News
- Mog Ruith of Armagh and
- Are you pursuing the Legendary Defender of Ascalon Title? Guild-Wars.info has a new guide that shows you how it's done!
- Don't miss the fan fiction contest at Guild-Wars2.info! Submit your 500-2,000 word entry by May 29, 2009 for a chance to win t-shirts, minipets, and other cool stuff!
Inde: I've gotten word from one of their Site Admins, Kronos, that this contest is only open for Germany right now and submissions must be in German. If it opens up that there is a possibility for shipment to other places they'll let us know!
- Fansite Update: Please welcome our new listed fansite, the Italian-language Trip4Tyria!
Guild Wars News - Artist Awards & Feb. Tourney Results
Submitted on March 12, 2009 by Inde
For the fourth year in a row, several of our talented artists have received awards for their exceptional concept art. Congratulations to our Art Director Daniel Dociu, and to our Lead Concept Artist Kekai Kotaki, for being featured in this year's Spectrum 16: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art. You can check out their submissions on the Spectrum 16 website. February Tournament Results 9 March 2009 The February GvG tournament concluded with another victory for Rebel Rising, this time over the Seppo Hovi Action Team. In the 1v1 tournament, Saint Luvs Hero defeated Romain Kaiser. Check out the full GvG and 1v1 results to see the complete winner list. Congratulations to all of our competitors!
Guild Wars Xunlai Tournament House March, and Game Update
Submitted on March 6, 2009 by Inde
For those that haven't seen it, there was a game update yesterday to skills and some bug fixes. Check out all the details in our Riverside Inn thread by MisterB: Update - Thursday, March 5th.
Also Regina, Community Relations, stopped by to give us this update on the Xunlai House Tournament points for March:Hey, everyone. We're aware of the problems with this months' Xunlai Tournament House.
We're going to do another build to correct the errors in point distributions. Any extra points you earned, you will keep. We will not be subtracting any reward points.
We're really sorry about the recurring issues with XTH. I know it's annoying when you don't get the correct number of points. We're not happy either when issues pop up and cause so much inconvenience to our players. (I think our QA manager is considering going into one of our sound booths to let out some screams -- maybe we'll have the audio team turn on some recording equipment so we can use it for GW2 :-P).
We're actively exploring ways to improve XTH and streamline the (relatively complicated) backend process. With the small Live Team deep in development for the April update, we're getting squeezed for time. But we want to let you know that we do know there are issues, and we do know that these issues are causing dissatisfaction and irritation, and it is on the To Do list to improve XTH. Once again, we apologize.
Head over to see that thread here: Xunlai Tournament House - March.
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