[2023] Secrets of the Obscure Launch Week: Thank you!

Hello everyone, All of us on the Guild Wars 2 team want to say a huge and heartfelt thank you for making the launch of Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure such a success. We planned on having a lot of players in game on day one but you all went above our expectations—we had to spin up additional servers and crank out extra serial keys beyond our already-ambitious estimates to accommodate the influx. It was a huge thrill to enjoy the first impressions of so many people seeing the expansion for the first time. For the next few weeks, our focus is on continuing to listen to your feedback in and out of game and ensuring the stability of new content and features. We have shipped two hotfixes to address issues you have let us know about, another is planned for today, and we’ll be keeping an eye out for additional major issues through next week. After that, our plan* is shift focus to our polish and bug fixing builds scheduled for September 12 and 26. In the meantime, we’re continuing to closely monitor your feedback on all of the systems and content introduced in Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure. We’re tracking known issues here. As always, it’s a joy to get to share the world of Guild Wars 2 with you. *Note: plans can be disrupted by all sorts of things, up to and including acts of the Six. We’ll keep you updated if the plan changes!