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**Corpsesarefun**

Nope, only the deluxe and collectors.

All pre-purchases (all money paid up front, a pre-order is paying a small sum to reserve the order) get early access, beta access and an item that buffs a few stats by 2 points (gear and traits boost by the hundreds or thousands of points).

arenanet wrote:How does physical Pre-Purchase work?
Physical Pre-Purchase for Guild Wars 2 is only available at select retailers. The details of how this will work will differ slightly depending on which edition customers purchase and where they purchase it.
Standard Edition (North America) — Customers will buy the Standard Edition Pre-Purchase box and receive a Pre-Purchase serial code. They will then go to https://register.guildwars2.com and follow the on-screen instructions to create a Guild Wars 2 account and apply the serial code, which will give them access to Beta Weekend Events and three-day Headstart access to the final game. When Guild Wars 2 launches, customers will need to return to the retailer with proof of purchase to receive the full Standard Edition box and retail serial code. They will need to apply this retail serial code to their Guild Wars 2 account within five days to continue playing without interruption.
Standard Edition (Europe) — Customers will buy the Standard Edition Pre-Purchase box and receive their serial code. This is the only serial code customers will receive and will grant access to the Beta Weekend Events, three-day Headstart Access, the Hero's Band digital item, and full access to the final live game. Customers will not need to return to retail to receive another serial code.
Collector's Edition (North America and Europe) — Customers will buy the Collector's Edition Pre-Purchase box and receive a Pre-Purchase serial code. They will then go to https://register.guildwars2.com and follow the on-screen instructions to create a Guild Wars account and apply the serial code, which will give them access to Beta Weekend Events and three-day Headstart Access to the final game. When Guild Wars 2 launches, customers will need to return to their retailer with proof of purchase to receive the full Collector's Edition box with physical items and retail serial code. They will need to apply this retail serial code to their Guild Wars 2 account within five days to continue playing without interruption.

Not happy about the bolded.

**Karon**

Digital Deluxe is what I'll be getting.

Game is looking quite excellent.

**candy.man**

corpsesarefun wrote:And 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 shader model 3.0 or better)
25GB available HDD space
Broadband internet connection
Keyboard and mouse.

25GB? That’s insane.

**Avatar 720**

500gb HDDs are quite cheap nowadays, hell you can even get 1tb ones at decent prices.

25gb might've seemed huge a few years ago, but now it's a drop in the ocean for a lot of people, especially those who are more tech savvy or up to date technologically.

**candy.man**

25GB for a single application is still pretty bloated IMO (even if it is an MMO), keep in mind that that’s only the requirement for the initial release. It’s almost laughable to consider how might disk space it might take up after patches and expansions (not to mention bandwidth usage if it has to re-download map files).

That being said I’m not running out of disk space any time soon but I’ll probably have to trim down some space on my rig as a contingency plan. For what it’s worth, I don’t use cheap HDD on my rig as I use SSD.

**Fafnir**

If there's enough content to justify the 25GB, I don't think it should be an issue.

**candy.man**

That I definitely agree with that. If the game blows me away as much as the first game did, I can live with it eating up excess hard drive space.

I’ll remain cautiously optimistic for now.

**Xeriapt**

I have to admit Im a bit surprised at peoples reactions to the game needing 25gb.

I bought my pc probably 2 years back and Im pretty sure it came with a 500gb hdd.

Not really sure how 25gb is an issue.

**Melissia**

My computer is about six or seven years old and it has a 100gb drive. Will likely have to upgrade it somehow to install this :/

Mind you, that's a good amount of time to go without needing an upgrade

**Xeriapt**

You can always grab an external hdd, they are pretty cheap and then you dont have to upgrade the whole system.

**Melissia**

I don't have good luck with external HDDs... the one I have (500 gig) doesn't work anymore :/

**Swordwind**

I'll be dunking GW2 in my external hard drive, along with the rest of my games and shows and movies.

I hope I never lose it.

**Fafnir**

The problem with external HDDs is that they aren't going to transfer data as quickly.

**SagesStone**

It'd be much better to just get a new hard drive than resorting to keeping it on an external and potentially causing issues.

**Melissia**

Fafnir wrote:The problem with external HDDs is that they aren't going to transfer data as quickly.

Also the problem is that external hard drives are cheap things made of plastic and rubber which easily break, forcing you to figure out a way to directly wire it to your computer >.<

**Swordwind**

corpsesarefun wrote:Nope, only the deluxe and collectors.

All pre-purchases (all money paid up front, a pre-order is paying a small sum to reserve the order) get early access, beta access and an item that buffs a few stats by 2 points (gear and traits boost by the hundreds or thousands of points).

arenanet wrote:How does physical Pre-Purchase work?
Physical Pre-Purchase for Guild Wars 2 is only available at select retailers. The details of how this will work will differ slightly depending on which edition customers purchase and where they purchase it.
Standard Edition (North America) — Customers will buy the Standard Edition Pre-Purchase box and receive a Pre-Purchase serial code. They will then go to https://register.guildwars2.com and follow the on-screen instructions to create a Guild Wars 2 account and apply the serial code, which will give them access to Beta Weekend Events and three-day Headstart access to the final game. When Guild Wars 2 launches, customers will need to return to the retailer with proof of purchase to receive the full Standard Edition box and retail serial code. They will need to apply this retail serial code to their Guild Wars 2 account within five days to continue playing without interruption.
Standard Edition (Europe) — Customers will buy the Standard Edition Pre-Purchase box and receive their serial code. This is the only serial code customers will receive and will grant access to the Beta Weekend Events, three-day Headstart Access, the Hero's Band digital item, and full access to the final live game. Customers will not need to return to retail to receive another serial code.
Collector's Edition (North America and Europe) — Customers will buy the Collector's Edition Pre-Purchase box and receive a Pre-Purchase serial code. They will then go to https://register.guildwars2.com and follow the on-screen instructions to create a Guild Wars account and apply the serial code, which will give them access to Beta Weekend Events and three-day Headstart Access to the final game. When Guild Wars 2 launches, customers will need to return to their retailer with proof of purchase to receive the full Collector's Edition box with physical items and retail serial code. They will need to apply this retail serial code to their Guild Wars 2 account within five days to continue playing without interruption.

Not happy about the bolded.

So basically you'll need to pre-order the CE from a store? Gak.

**Avatar 720**

Xeriapt wrote:I have to admit Im a bit surprised at peoples reactions to the game needing 25gb.

I bought my pc probably 2 years back and Im pretty sure it came with a 500gb hdd.

Not really sure how 25gb is an issue.

He did mention that he uses an SSD instead of an HDD, so it could be an issue there. SSDs are a lot faster, but also a lot smaller and more expensive; as the technology improves, I imagine that they'll become cheaper and could possibly replace HDDs if they manage to reach a balance between speed and cost, but right now a 500gb SSD will cost you about ten times as much as it'd cost for a 500gb HDD.

It's more likely that he has a smaller SSD, perhaps around 60gb or so, which would be about the same as it'd cost for a 500gb HDD, around ~£60.

**Corpsesarefun**

I'm not worried about the hard drive, mine is only 200 odd GB but I have plenty of spare room.

Having to order from a physical store is iffy though... especially with the state of game/gamestation at the moment meaning there will soon be no dedicated game retailers in the UK, if I buy the game with them on april the 10th they may not be in business by the time the game is released and the physical versions shipped.

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

Shopto will be fine if they get it Corpses, they just dealt with Mass Effect 3 CE excellently considering they didn't have it for sale two weeks before release. Have a tab in your Account for codes and such, so the redeeming the code shouldn't be an issue.

They are now my main pre-order site in the UK, plus they have a points reward scheme, so bonus. Not new either, not sure how I missed them for so long, but they have been around for a while.

PC Gamer had a member of their team who is normally a WoW fan do a preview special as he got to play the game. After reading that, I am getting very interested in this game, think it is likely now I will be going after a Collectors Edition.

**Corpsesarefun**

Shopto?

We only have game, game station and a second hand game shop called CEX here, the quote implies that you need to go to a physical shop too...

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

Can't see how they plan on telling Amazon, Play and the rest they can't have a CE because they have no shop on the highstreet.

Especially when tracking orders and such is just as easy online, in fact I wager more could go wrong with a physical shop.

Most of the big online players (maybe not Play, had issues in the past) never allow pre-orders over the stock allocation they have recieved, or told they will recieve.

http://www.shopto.net/

edit - also just rereading you link, retailer doesn't equal Brick and mortar shops only.

**Corpsesarefun**

It's the "will then have to return to the retailer" line that confuses me, it implies you need to physically go rather than the retailer will just ship it to you.

Fingers crossed for amazon.

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

Aye, its oddly worded, although in effect you'd have to go back to your online retailer to get the game when it is released.

My guess is a you'll be able to purchase it from a number of them, they send you that code, and then when its released, they send the game

Although you shouldn't need to show a code, because they will already have you on file as purchasing the game.

Honestly can't see them restricting the online stores the CE though, so something will be worked out.

**Corpsesarefun**

Hopefully, I loathe to buy games in shops and game/gamestation is unlikely to be in business if GW2 gets an autumn release.

GW2 not being at PAX east this year does suggest it will be released before that though.

Nvidia updated their drivers today and a new game appeared on the list of compatible games, interesting...

**Melissia**

Well either way, the actual beta is released on the 10th for pre-orders so... just under three weeks.

**Corpsesarefun**

27 days by my count, just under 4 weeks.

**candy.man**

Avatar 720 wrote:He did mention that he uses an SSD instead of an HDD, so it could be an issue there. SSDs are a lot faster, but also a lot smaller and more expensive; as the technology improves, I imagine that they'll become cheaper and could possibly replace HDDs if they manage to reach a balance between speed and cost, but right now a 500gb SSD will cost you about ten times as much as it'd cost for a 500gb HDD.

It's more likely that he has a smaller SSD, perhaps around 60gb or so, which would be about the same as it'd cost for a 500gb HDD, around ~£60.

I use a 250GB SSD and I’ve only used around 50% of the disk space (and I’ve yet to trim un needed content). I’m hoping future expansions don’t also require another 25GB otherwise things will get a little annoying.

I’m definitely going to try and get a physical copy of either the standard or collector’s edition (depending on price) as grabbing the digital version and downloading 25GB seems a bit silly

. I’m probably going to pre-order the product online through Game as they always have a postage slip on my doorstep on release day (which is better than EB who only start processing pre-orders on release day). Game’s online prices are usually a little better than EB.

**Corpsesarefun**

As they are expansions I'd doubt each expansion would be more than 15GB.

I'm actually impressed by the 25GB, it shows there is a feth load of content.

**Fafnir**

corpsesarefun wrote:

Nvidia updated their drivers today and a new game appeared on the list of compatible games, interesting...

http://i1195.photobucket.com/albums/aa392/Tom_Joynson/Interesting.jpg

If I were physically capable of seeing in 3D, that would be pretty cool, I guess.

**Corpsesarefun**

I'm more interested in Guild Wars 2 being on the list of "compatible" games way before release, it implies release isn't so far off.