The highly-anticipated Guild Wars 2 MMO is ready to rock PCs on 28 August 2012, and a number of community-oriented websites have already popped up in anticipation.<\/p>\n
We caught up with one such South African Guild Wars 2 community website – Guild Wars 2 SA<\/strong><\/a> – to find out more about what they are up to ahead of the game’s launch, and what members can expect with the game coming out in a week’s time. The site launched in February 2012 and currently has a 300+ membership.<\/p>\n Deidre Zeuner (Zeu) is the owner of Guild Wars 2 SA, who explained that it is fan site dedicated to providing a communal meeting place for the members, up to date coverage on anything Guild Wars 2 related (including news, media, community updates, blogs, guides, events, and tournaments).<\/p>\n “In addition, it is our goal to create a central alliance platform for all our affiliated guilds, bringing friends and communities together with teamwork and loads of fun,” said Zeuner.<\/p>\n “Our admin team is based on, and lead by, a group of outstanding community volunteers who have committed themselves to ensuring our forums remain updated, clean, and friendly at all times. Their bios can be read on the Guild Wars 2 SA website<\/a>.”<\/p>\n We asked if the site has any affiliation or recognition from NCSoft, publisher of Guild Wars 2. ” We don\u2019t have any official affiliation with NCsoft, but they have noticed our community efforts and have added us to the list of approved fan sites on Guild Wars 2 Wiki,” said Zeu.<\/p>\n Speaking to how the site sustains itself financially, Zeu said “Guild Wars 2 South Africa is primarily supported out of pocket, but we\u2019ve also received donations in the form of web development and in-game items for our launch competitions.”<\/p>\n “We have built up a very good relationship with NCSoft, who noticed our efforts and graciously gave us 170 beta keys at the previous Beta Weekend. More recently; NCSoft donated one Collectors\u2019 edition and 2 standard editions for our Guild Wars 2 Launch competition,” said Zeu.<\/p>\n Guild Wars 2 SA provides the following to its community:<\/p>\n Future plans include live-streaming of Guild Wars2 at community events.<\/p>\n For more information on the Guild Wars 2 SA launch competitions, head on over to the MyGaming competition forum<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n