Guild Wars 2 - Beta Weekend #1 Update
Sorrow's Furnace filled up fast.
We are now going to be on Scavenger's Causeway.
Guild Wars 2 - Beta Weekend #1
The first pre-purchase beta weekend starts tomorrow, Friday (April 27th).
We will be rolling our characters on the Sorrow's Furnace server.
Come join us!
Guild Wars 2 Pre-orders
It started almost 7 years ago. Moa Birds was created on May 2005. We have grown (sometimes shrunk) and remained together since the first day in Guild Wars. We have played many different games together and separately, but there is one thing I can bet on... All of us will be returning for Guild Wars 2. With that said, today Anet has announced their pre-order bundles.
https://buy.guildwars2.com/
Pre-orders open April 10.
Digital Edition:
- Guild Wars 2 game
Digital Deluxe:
- Guild Wars 2 game
- Summon Mistfire Wolf Elite Skill (description below)
- Rytlock Miniature (description below)
- Golem Banker (description below)
- Chalice of Glory (description below)
- Tome of Influence (description below)
Collector's Edition ($149.99):
- Guild Wars 2 game
- Summon Mistfire Wolf Elite Skill (This unique elite skill allows the player to summon a temporary Mistfire Wolf pet for use in combat.)
- Rytlock Miniature (This rare miniature is a perfect replica of Rytlock Brimstone and will accompany your character on all of their adventures throughout Tyria.)
- Golem Banker (Your very own golem banker, at your command for five days! This mechanical man-servant will grant you access to your account storage from anywhere in the world.)
- Chalice of Glory (Earn some extra Glory with this one-time use chalice. Use Glory to unlock rewards in PvP as well as compare your progress against other players.)
- Tome of Influence (Give your guild a one-time boost of influence. Useful for unlocking guild vaults, emblems and other items for your guild.)
- 10-inch figurine of Rytlock (This meticulously sculpted and painted figurine of the charr warrior Rytlock Brimstone will seize and occupy a place of pride in your home.)
- 112 page Making of Guild Wars 2 book (Go behind the scenes of Guild Wars 2 in this 112-page hardback book featuring lush art, fascinating facts, and interviews with the development team.)
- Custom Art Frame (Display your concept art in this finely made art frame.)
- Art Portfolio and Five Art Prints (Five high-quality art prints featuring work by award-winning Guild Wars 2 artists.)
- Best of Guild Wars 2 Soundtrack CD (Famed composer Jeremy Soule's sweeping musical score captures the epic grandeur and mystery of Tyria.)
All Pre-orders will automatically include:
- Access to all Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Events
- Three days of headstart access
- Hero's Band (Hero's Band Provides: +2 Power, +2 Precision, +2 Toughness, +2 Vitality, +2 Condition Damage, +2 Healing, and +2% Critical Damage)
System Requirements:
- Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or better
- Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3, AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 or better
- NVIDIA GeForce 7800, ATI Radeon X1800, Intel HD 3000 or better (256MB of video RAM and shadow model 3.0 or better)
- 25 GB available HDD space
- Broadband Internet connection
- Keyboard and mouse
Want to see how it looks so far? Here is a decent listing of videos from the press beta.
Domain Registrar Change
I am moving my domains from Go Daddy and the site may experience a temporary downtime.
I am moving the domains because of Go Daddy's initial response to the SOPA bill.
Go Daddy initially said:
"Not only is there no First Amendment concern, but the notion that we should turn a blind eye to criminal conduct because other countries may take oppressive steps in response is an affront to the very fabric of this nation."
Once they realized the boycott was growing they dropped their support of the bill and released this statement:
"Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation—but we can clearly do better," Warren Adelman, Go Daddy's newly appointed CEO, said. "It's very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it."
The internet will not stand for this draconian bill that will allow anonymous take downs of websites. We already have protections in place for digital copyrights. See: DMCA*. I personally do not feel SOPA is the way our country should be heading in protecting digital intellectual rights. We do not need a great firewall in the USA.
To learn more about SOPA, visit the wikipedia page on the bill.
*Oops, I originally used the DOMA acronym. COMPLETELY different act.
New Forum Style
I finally got around to replacing the forum style we were using before. It had been broken for a long time and was quite out of date. The new style has a bunch of changes. Some of the changes I am not a big fan of, but let me know what you guys hate or like. That way... I can change everything you like and keep everything you hate.
Side bonus: People can register on the forums again. I want everyone to welcome the Russian and Chinese spammers that get through the filter.
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