Amazon.de begins Guild Wars 2 preorders, claims June 30th launch date

Amazon.de also claimed to know exactly when Diablo III was launching...

Because, of course, a german website would know about American game releases before *anyone else in the world.*

Massively, please don't feed the trolls.

I don't believe there is any reason to post this. We all know that Amazon.de doesn't know jack about a release date. Once they have one it will be announced, and not through Amazon...

Serious question.

When has amazon been right about an unannounced launch date ever?

That's a Saturday. Not happening.

Well, this is "par for course".

I think Gamestop also had a launch date for SWTOR that was earlier on; basically all dates are tentative.

They probably got an approximation of a launch date from some source who heard it from some other source in the division of publishing from someone's nephew in the corporate office.

The date is mildly interesting in that it pegs things down, but it could also be wrong, even gravely wrong, as has happened with such things before. But...it does look like a 2012 release....sans soccer jerseys.

I'd like to point out that the whole last year Amazon said that GW2 release would be "2 November 2011", and since I'm not playing the game right now I'm assuming that both statements are false.

Seriously, don't take retailers date seriously. >_>

Jumping the gun a little bit I'd say.

I m so proud of massively.com for the expert reporting on news.

march 31,
June 30, 2012
september 30,
december 31

Did you ever consider that June 30, 2012 is the end of the 3rd quarter? Just like how gamestop uses dates such as march 31 and december 31 for games without release dates?

We've seen gamestop, amazon, a million websites post estimated release dates hundreds of times. They just use the 'fake' dates to allow for preorders to be sold. We've all seen it before and they all change the dates once the real release has been confirmed.

This date can give us an approximate of what quarter to expect the games release. I don't know if any quarter has been confirmed yet though. Just take it for what it is... not a real date.

there is no way anyone should believe that. no matter how much i want to believe it. still what a random retailer says is not as official as the company making the game saying when its coming. please let it be soon.

Nah, if it turns out to be true, it will be pure coincidence. There is just no way they could know this, plus the announcement of a release date for GW2 will (no doubt) have a *huge* marketing drive coupled to it.

Also (purely IMHO), I think it a bit folly to pre-order now anyway. We don't have a release date and we don't know any details about special releases like collectors editions etc. Also, the only party who's benefiting from your pre-order money right now, is Amazon. (i.e. You're not doing ArenaNet any favours.)

I'd rather have the money in my bank than theirs ... at least until we have a concrete date as announced by ArenaNet themselves. Anything other than that is pure speculation.

Considering what was said about how the "original intentions" were to have the third novel out before the release of GW2 in the Guild Wars Insider article a couple of months ago when they were talking about how the change of author pushed the date back to August of this year, this is actually a tentative release date I can believe is close to the mark.