This is a big day for ArenaNet and numerous Guild Wars 2 fans worldwide! After revealing the eighth profession, the mind-bending Mesmer, the closed beta date has finally been unveiled. According to a post from today's Reddit Ask Me Anything session, Guild Wars 2 will officially enter closed beta this Friday.
We will officially enter Closed Beta Testing this Friday. It will be marked with an increase in our pool of testers. To clarify, this phase of testing is still under NDA and is not open to the public.
Since it is not a public test, in fact, it's a friends and family type beta and under NDA so don't expect to see much information coming out. With regard to the application process, ArenaNet explained in the Guild Wars 2 Guru's IRC dev chat, saying that "We have a studio internal selection process for our Closed Beta that starts on Friday. There will be no public application form." Anyway, it is a piece of good news for those eager fans as closed beta is underway and this indicates that we've get closer to the release date.
