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Q: "On Thursday, January 9th, 2014, we will be having our final public test of the Edge of the Mists map. This test will be from 2PM until 6PM PST (GMT -8)."

To everyone whom applied to the Edge of the Mists test, we want to say thank you. Devon Carver, the World vs. World team coordinator, asked us to share this message with you:

Greetings,

    January 9th was the end of our public testing of the new Edge of the Mists Map. This was our first time inviting people to play a portion of our game in active development and without NDA restrictions. The people playing the map and providing their feedback helped us make several important decisions while allowing us to test the new content in as close to a live environment as possible. It is not an exaggeration to say we couldn’t have brought the map to the quality level it has reached without their help!

    To pull out a specific example, our original plan was for each matchup to have its own version of the new map. As we tested out the map with various numbers of players and spoke with the members of the test, it became clear to us that the ideal approach was to group all of the NA players into one group and all EU players into another: meaning that all NA blue worlds will fight side-by-side with each other on the blue Edge of the Mists team. These kinds of decisions, and others, were ones we couldn’t have come to without getting the map in front of the large number of players that we saw over the course of the test, and without your feedback on the official forum!

    When the Edge of the Mists does release, I hope everyone here is as excited to play a map that your fellow WvW players helped create as we are.

    Cheers,

    Devon Carver

Hey all! I would also like to thank everyone who volunteered their time to be a part of this experience: whether spending most of it on the battlefield or by contributing your feedback, thoughts, and the issues you discovered while playing to the forum. The response to our initial announcement was astounding – with thousands of guilds applying to be a part of our first undertaking into the public-testing setting – and the feedback we received was invaluable in creating the best experience possible for this new era of WvW.

Though we were unfortunately not able to invite everyone who applied, we’ve already begun working on ways to involve even more players in any future ventures into community testing. If you are interested in continuing to work with the design team, in the meantime, I’d highly recommend checking out the Collaborative Development Initiative, where you can explore and contribute to a number of important topics currently under discussion.

Thank you, again, from all of us, and I can’t wait to see you all on the battlefield!