Having entered the head-start phase on 1st May for gamers who pre-ordered before 30th April, Guild Wars 2 China will officially enter the Open Beta phase on 15th May, which is this coming week. To mark this momentous event, 9 new servers will be added, making it a total of 33 servers.
Publisher KongZhong also announced technical upgrades for Open Beta, including increasing the maximum number of players in all servers and bandwidth. It was estimated by the media that sales (boxed and digital) of the game has hit over 500,000 copies, with 200,000 players online.
