“In order to test transfers and world balance, from Friday, April 27 at 15:00 PDT to Saturday, April 28 at 18:00PDT, players will have free and unrestricted World transfers.”

Taking into account the free server transfers, we will be transferring to “Scavenger’s Causeway” for the rest of the beta, so that all members can play together since nobody can join Sea of Sorrows anymore.

Also take note of our mumble IP change, due to a DDOS attack on the old one. The new IP is ruby.pwnation.net.

And so the great wait begins… Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend will start at 3am Saturday, GMT+8 time. As usual, we will be camping to jump right into the game the moment it goes live. Not a single minute wasted! We only have 36 hours to try out everything!

We here at Yakisoba have prepared a simple to do list for the beta!

1. Stock up

Head to your nearest supermarket and stock up on food and drinks! Best to get food that won’t dirty your fingers while you game. Snackbars, chocolate bars, wang wang, etc are the best. Get your drinks in 1.5ml bottles, cheaper and you don’t have to keep refilling!

2. Sleep

Go sleep. Catch at least 5 hours sleep, so sleep at 10pm! It’s going to be difficult, but that extra pre-gaming sleep will serve you well in the marathon!

3. Get Mumble

Details on how to get Mumble can be found here. Tsubaki will be on Mumble at 2.45am, together with all the other members who will be doing the marathon. As soon as the Guild get created (which we can make immediately after your first cutscene), we can start adding you into the guild. Chatting and partying up together will make your Guild Wars 2 experience a very enjoyable one, and you probably won’t feel sleepy.

4. Game on!

Important to note: We will be rolling on Sea of Sorrows server. Make sure you don’t mess this up!

And let the 1st Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend begin! Remember to read this bunch of tips before you play, it’s pretty damn useful for anyone who is jumping into Guild Wars 2 for the first time. And a word of advice from Tsubaki: Unlearn whatever thing you know about MMORPGs, Guild Wars 2 does everything differently and you will need to do alot of relearning at least for the early levels.

Rwaaaaaaaaaaaar!

After much discussion over the server list provided by ArenaNet’s latest blog post, we have decided that we will roll on “Sea of Sorrows“, together with the other Oceanic community.

All members please take note of the server, as your account will be binded to whatever server you selected and you can only change it via cashshop gems.

We now have 30 members all ready to roll, and we are still open to new members interested to join our server.

Request to join our facebook group if you are interested to be part of our community of gamers!

Breaking news! Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend has been confirmed by ArenaNet. It will happen on the 27-29 of April. We will finally have a taste of the game and we are all very excited about.

Also throwing in the obligatory recruitment message: Yakisoba is recruiting new members to join us in Guild Wars 2. 27 of our core members have already bought the game, and more and joining in. We’re hoping to start the game with at least 30 members!  If you are interested, join us on our facebook group.

Yakisoba is recruiting new members to join our ranks in Guild Wars 2!

We are a SG/MY gaming guild that has been around since 2007. We have played various games together, from Granado Espada, Aion, Rift, Dragon Nest, etc  to even FPS games like Team Fortress 2 and Battlefield 3. We have a very tight community of gamers, and we know each other like family. Most of us have met up in gatherings outside the internet. We are former hardcore gamers, but due to real life commitments, we no longer claim to be hardcore, though whatever free time we have we tend to go all out!

Guild Wars 2 is our next MMO that we will call home, and this game looks like a keeper. So we’re looking for players who are interested to be a part of our family of gamers. We only have 2 simple request from all our members, be part of our facebook group (we no longer use our forums; social networking ftw) and also use our VOIP, mumble (click link to download).

We also understand that in Guild Wars 2 players are allowed to join multiple guilds. We do not mind if our members are part of multiple guilds, but as long as you are contributing actively (ie influence points) to the guild, you will be part of the core team.

Do apply by requesting to join our Facebook group and also fill up your IGN/game edition on our rollcall here!

Tsubaki, Leader of Yakisoba

If you didn’t know, today at 3pm, the pre-purchase site for Guild Wars 2 has gone live!

You can order the Digital Edition (Standard) or Digital Deluxe online. Make sure you are seeing the prices in USD, if you don’t you can change your browser language to English (US) or you can use a US proxy. You don’t want to get the EU version by accident.

When you purchase, you will receive your CD-key and you will also be asked to register your Guild Wars 2 account. Guild Wars 1 players can join their account together to access their HoM rewards.

All members who will be playing Guild Wars 2, do post your IGN and which edition you will be getting on this document.

The game that we have been waiting for years is finally coming soon.

And we are very very very impressed with what Guild Wars 2 has to offer us- personal stories, dynamic events, no holy trinity, skill-based combat, WvWvW, Competitive PVP, and a whole bunch of innovation that no MMORPG can rival. We are definitely set to make Guild Wars 2 our next home, and hopefully it will hold us as long as we can. We’ve been hopping around from MMORPGs to MMORPGs simply because they just aren’t that fun, not since our golden days in Granado Espada. But I guess the hoping around is a good thing too, since we’ve picked up new players along the way to join our family of gamers.

So if you’re looking for a SG/MY Guild Wars 2 guild that has a core team of seasoned players (we don’t dare to call ourselves hardcore players anymore, now that most of us are working/uni/etc) that has been playing together for 8 years and counting, join us! We plan to do a lot of PVE, WvWvW and PvP! We are most active on our facebook group, where it’s updated daily with all kind of gaming related talk.