Guild Wars 2 er uden tvivl et af de online-rollespil som der er størst forventninger til, og spillet har da også kun set bedre og bedre ud hver gang vi har fået det at se. Nu fortæller lead content designer Colin Johanson at han er helt sikker på at en lukket beta af spillet vil være klar i år.

Fra VG247 lyder det således:
"We're going to go into closed beta by the end of this year for sure... We're in closed alpha right now. We're going to go into closed beta by the end of this year. Based on the outcome of the closed beta, that will determine our open beta schedule. Based on the outcome of the open beta, that's going to determine our release date."