Glad you got it. I like your theory.

Arenanet started writing the original Guild Wars with 5 people, out of one of their founder's apartment. Today 270 Arenanet employees plus 100's of NC Soft (the publisher) employees in Europe and Korea are working on Guild Wars 2. (The original once again has a small group, 6 people, keeping it updated.)

Arenanet announced Guild Wars 2 in early 2007, as an explanation for why Guild Wars: Utopia a planned 4th campaign, had been canceled. They did not seriously start working on Guild Wars 2 until late 2007 however as they were still working on the Guild Wars expansion Eye of the North, which is a link to Guild Wars 2.

It's a good thing that they are still supporting the original

EG Expo Editors' Game of the Show: Guild Wars 2

That's a nice bit of recognition for them

Some people wondered if future expansion packs for Guild Wars 2 would raise the character level cap, which starts at 80. According to one interview the answer is yes. Which surprises me. They did not do that with Guild Wars 1.

Only comment I've seen about the final profession is that it still needs work.

Ranger pets have received some criticism after the demos. Although I think the problem with pets is really a problem of people who haven't played the game from the start getting to jump into midlevel content so that they have no experience in properly using the pets. Never the less, Arenanet says they are working on improving the pets.

Guybrush, what has the general criticism of pets been?

In the demos they get defeated (die) a lot. They've already made some changes. Now ranger skills have some positive effect on pets as well as negative effect on foes.

No news about the game but guildwars2guru has user names in their forum showing up in pink and has the pink breast cancer ribbon on their logo. In Guild Wars 1 October 15th is Pink Day in LA (Lion's Arch).

Thanks Guybrush.

Planet of the Grawl -- blog entry on a minor race, this one left over from Guild Wars Prophecies and Eye of the North.

So that's where Bigfoot went

Thanks Guybrush

Guild Wars 2 Races of Tyria (Spanish Fandub) - a group of Spanish Guild Wars 2 fans made this. The only official Arenanet ones are in English, German and French.

It was beautiful. I caught a word or two every now and again.

Video: Audio Team Field Recording Trip - Guild Wars 2 official blog entry