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The Worlds of the Final Beta Weekend Event

Posted in: News by Stuart444, 18 July 2012 - 05:36 PM

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Arenanet is here with a new blog detailing some important WvW info along with the list of worlds for the final BWE.

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We have seen quite a few questions and concerns about world-versus-world match length at launch. We’re expecting to see large population changes across all worlds in the first few weeks as more players get into the game and guilds start getting settled.

To help account for the rapidly fluctuating populations at launch, we’ll initially use the 24-hour match format until world populations settle down a bit and we are able to get some data that will help avoid having two-week-long extreme mismatches. Once most worlds are reliably matching up against worlds of similar strength, we will switch over to playing the two-week-duration match cycles.

Here is the list of servers for this Beta Weekend Event behind the spoiler tags.

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Read the rest of the blog post here.

With the Asura and Sylvari being playable this weekend, we also have a host of videos and information from media outlets that people can check out for both races.

First we have the hour and a quarter video of the Asura from Gamespot and we have Jeux Online who had a hands on with the Asura along with plenty of screenshots and even a video for people to check out.

With the Sylvari being the newest race, we had quite a few videos about the Sylvari, their starting areas and the Grove. First off, we had Jeux Online again with information and plenty of videos for the Sylvari including character creation, a tour of the Grove and a Dynamic Event.

We also had IGN with a 50 minute Sylvari gameplay video and a 1 hour, 10 minute video from Gamespot for Sylvari fans to enjoy while they are waiting for Friday to come.

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#1 Datenshi92

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 05:39 PM

Petrified Forest, the unofficial RP server is gone! Where we will join now??

#2 Dratyan

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 05:41 PM

Quite happy with the reduced number of worlds. With the overflow system, there won't be an issue with giant crowds, and, when eventually the post-launch madness starts to fade, there won't be a lack of players.

#3 Oduru

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 05:41 PM

One would think they'd keep the servers from BWE #1 and only remove a couple of servers they added for #2. I guess not, though.

I, very selfishly, invite the RP-community over to Gandara, since it's a nicely populated realm and I'd love to have the option of RP'ing every now and then!

#4 Archduke

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 05:44 PM

My server got blasted off the list too. T_T Looks like we have more European players than we do North American and Australian players. Then again Europe has all the languages going on too.

Now I must pick a new server.

Shame they don't have the results from WvWvW. Our server did pretty good.

Bouncing between
- Isle of Janthir
- Sorrow's Furnace (Sounds too similar to Sea of Sorrow's though)
- Stormbluff Isle
and
- Yak's Bend.......

#5 Vorsakan

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 05:44 PM

Sounds like a very sensible plan for world matching, and some very impressive server adjustment technology. :cool:

I was also on Petrified Forest (purely by chance - I'd never heard it was an unofficial RP server), so shall have to pick out a new one with my brother.

#6 Izardoz

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 05:44 PM

quite surprising....some new names, if I'm not mistaken

need to choose yet another server...

just really can't wait to get back to Tyria

#7 Hirsty

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 05:45 PM

[quote name='Datenshi92' timestamp='1342633170' post='1610323']
Petrified Forest, the unofficial RP server is gone! Where we will join now??
[/quote]

Lakeside Country my bro

-EDIT-
False info sorry.
It's PIKEN SQUARE
with
RUINS OF SURMIA as overflow

#8 jirayasan

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 05:46 PM

I'll play on Aurora Glade. Glad to see less servers and more activity on each server.

#9 Trixh

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 05:46 PM

Desolation still going strong

#10 not_they

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 05:46 PM

I'm intrigued by that server population cap adjustment thingy

#11 TotTWriter

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 05:48 PM

[quote name='Datenshi92' timestamp='1342633170' post='1610323']
Petrified Forest, the unofficial RP server is gone! Where we will join now??
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[quote name='Hirsty' timestamp='1342633510' post='1610343']
Lakeside Country my bro
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As the EU RP community over at 2RP had decided to pick a server starting with P for the Beta events, at the moment the next logical choice for the Beta looks to be Piken Square, with Ruins of Surmia as an overflow. That's the server that a lot of us will be congregating on, at least.

#12 blindude

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 05:48 PM

Very nice indeed!But why less server for na??

#13 Matsy

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 05:48 PM

Desolation lives on!

#14 lujate

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 05:50 PM

I hope they adjusted the WvW limits.

#15 Vahkris

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 05:52 PM

More and more I'm convinced this BWE is mostly a Launch-preparation test. Less servers with the most players yet, all races available...

Makes sense considering the hype around this game means they need as smooth a launch as possible.

[quote name='blindude' timestamp='1342633717' post='1610354']
Very nice indeed!But why less server for na??
[/quote]
I'd say it's because of the need for specific-language servers, whereas NA can be all the same language.

#16 Archduke

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 05:52 PM

[quote name='blindude' timestamp='1342633717' post='1610354']
Very nice indeed!But why less server for na??
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Language barriers my friend.

North America really only has one language (of course there is a bit of Spanish and French, but not nearly enough to give NA compelte servers focusing on those languages) Europe on the other hand needs more servers for the German speakers, French speakers and of course English speakers.

#17 BlueTooth

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 05:53 PM

[quote name='blindude' timestamp='1342633717' post='1610354']
Very nice indeed!But why less server for na??
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They made too many servers during BWE2 so that made 60% of servers have low population which made WvW imbalanced.
So they focused their server racks to handle fewer server choices, which in turn, makes it for stronger, higher populated servers which would help balance WvW. If you were on a low populated world vs a high populated world you would get over zerged. I am very interested in how this plays out this BWE

#18 Datenshi92

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 05:53 PM

[quote name='Hirsty' timestamp='1342633510' post='1610343']
Lakeside Country my bro

-EDIT-
False info sorry.
It's PIKEN SQUARE
with
RUINS OF SURMIA as overflow
[/quote]
[quote name='TotTWriter' timestamp='1342633716' post='1610353']
As the EU RP community over at 2RP had decided to pick a server starting with P for the Beta events, at the moment the next logical choice for the Beta looks to be Piken Square, with Ruins of Surmia as an overflow. That's the server that a lot of us will be congregating on, at least.
[/quote]

For anyone wondering about the RP server, check this site: [url="http://www.guildwars2roleplayers.com/"]http://www.guildwars2roleplayers.com/[/url]
They will announce the server soon!