Late last week, NCsoft's own financial results targeted the long awaited Guild Wars 2 as coming out sometime in 2010 or even 2011. Now the official Guild Wars web site has a statement from ArenaNet's Mike O'Brien who tried to do some damage control about those dates in the publisher's report (which oddly he calls "published rumors" even though the info comes from their own publisher). He states, "ArenaNet has never given a release date for Guild Wars 2 other than 'when it's done.' NCsoft's investor materials are a reflection of that philosophy."

Even so, a number of gamers thought that there would be some light at the end of the tunnel by now and O'Brien seems to know that as well. He states,"I know some fans had hoped for a smaller gap between the launch of Guild Wars: Eye of the North (released in August 2007 - editor) and the start of beta testing for Guild Wars 2, but we communicated last summer that it would be some time before we could commit to any beta or launch dates. Guild Wars 2 is a large and ambitious game, and we're going to take the time to do it right." While he doesn't flat out say it, it seems pretty clear that the game won't be out this year.