ArenaNet:In-game talk/20070807

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Gaile Gray Talk Wednesday August 7, 2007

Note: The data center experienced a cooling core failure which knocked out the entire building. The temperature got up to 115F (46C) degrees and caused system wide crashes. The cooling system has been replaced and the servers are full functional again.

Summary

  • No new Elite skills in GW:EN
  • Data Center has been fully recovered
  • Dungeons are set to a party Size of 8.
  • A new "Platinum Edition" Guild Wars will be released in Europe around the beginning of September, and in North American sometime in October, available on the Online Store and PlayNC on August 31st.
  • The new Platinum Edition includes Prophecies and GW:EN
  • New Wallpaper will be offered soon.
  • Guild Wars 2 may have day and night cycles.
  • With the Data Center failure, some data may have been lost. A rollback would not be possible as the failure did not directly affect everyone.
  • No extra storage pages with GW:EN
  • GW:EN does not offer more character slots
  • AB servers might not be working right
  • Characters in GW:EN don't need to be ascended
  • Brand the Boss winners should hear from ANet soon
  • Return to Tyria Sweepstakes for both North America and Europe will be announced this Friday
  • No news on a "ranged"-pet for GW:EN
  • No known plans for a Guild Wars Movie.
  • No plans for a Dutch district

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