Great news
Possible start as early as noon woop woop!
Well. ill wake up 06.00 to try at least i guess!
I'm on vacation and I usually dont get up before midday but... I will make an EXCEPTION! And after 20 hours I will happily collapse on my keyboard yay.
The only Saturday ever that I'll get up at 5.30 in the morning.
Yeah I want to reserve some names as well, particularly ones that are dear to my heart. Though, I don't mind if I don't get to, as the names I come up with are usually pretty cool (to me) and sound okay. It'd be nice to get the simple names though, that way for all of gw2ternity you can be that guy; the guy who prevented 1000s of people from getting their first choice name.
3 hours earlier just means ANet will be sitting at their command center, watching and using a counter to see how many people are trying to connect, and when it hits a certain number and they're done laughing, they'll open it at 3 AM.
*cough*
What do you know? For once, I may be thrilled when my baby wakes me up between midnight and 1 AM.
I think they're doing this to spread out the load of people logging on at the same time. Not everyone reads forums or blogs, so many people may still think servers won't be up until the original time they said. Good move by ArenaNet IMO.
Yeah, and if forums are full of WHY ISN'T IT UP YET, IT'S LAGGY/BUSY, QQ 3 hours early, I am going to seriously facepalm. I just hope people realise it's to spread out the login hammer and I hope we don't get masses of qq's because people got up super early and then couldn't login before the actual official release time.
I think a good chunk of the pre-purchasers follow ANet very closely, hahaha. But at the same time, it's probably to give some chances for people who can't stay up so late or wake up so early or be home at that time to have more of a chance to get in ASAP. There's a big difference between 12 AM and 3 AM for me on the east coast, but we'll see!