Sorry that there’s been no posts this week so far folks; things in GW2 have been absolutely crazy for me since the weekend - in a good way!

Thank you very much to everyone who turned up to my Stream Watching Party on Saturday afternoon in the EU. Over a hundred people joined me in watching ArenaNet’s announcement of Heart of Thorns at PAX South.

It was immense. I have never witnessed so much hype for any product in my entire life. Chat was absolutely wild it made me proud to share this special moment with so many of you. What Colin said on stage was right; this game has the best community and I’m glad to be part of it.

Saturday was also the first time that an ArenaNet staff member publicly attended one of my events. It was great to have you there Kelvei and I appreciated this line:

;D

Special thanks to all of those who reblogged the promotional posts on Tumblr and upvoted the relevant threads on Reddit (particularly our guild, [RPS]). the-writing-penguin also deserves credit for allowing us use of his TeamSpeak yet again!

And of course, [SPQR] are due gratitude for hosting the US counterpart.

If you have any comments about Saturday’s event (either the EU or US side), please contact me on Twitter or by using the official forum event thread.

I’ll be keeping an eye on the #SWP tag in case anyone else wants to post about the event using Tumblr. Please also remember to tag me in your posts so I see them using @ and then typing this blog name (duke-w) in the text.

Finally, a thousand apologies to those unfortunate folks who didn’t make it into the map instance; we were full by 16:05 GMT. As many of you will know, we usually run multiple versions of maps at my events (or split the zerg) so this should not be an issue on future occasions.

Stay tuned for more posts!