What is it?
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1058358-Guild-Wars-2-Mass-info-for-the-uninitiated-READ-ME

This gets re-posted around a lot if someone wants to cut and paste all the stuff from the above thread be my guest.

Quick short questions people keep asking me.

How much does it cost?
- 60 USD, 80 USD or 100 USD for the collectors edition.
- You can probably also buy it on online retailers.

Does it have a cash shop?
Yes it does most of the stuff is cosmetic and fast leveling amongst other things
http://i.imgur.com/QuL2v.jpg

If you want to buy it: (and maybe get a 3 day head start)
https://buy.guildwars2.com/en/

Do the previous things come from Guild Wars 1?
Yes they can, once again cosmetic.

How big are the maps?
http://i.imgur.com/aTJ0L.jpg - Lets just say Big-ish.

More articles to poke your interest:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-reasons-guild-wars-2-revolutionary-mmorpg-muo-gaming/

Quick Summary
- Beautiful and Stylistic
- No Monthly Subscription.
- Skill-Based Action Combat
- Player vs. Player Options (The World Versus World is pretty epic -- by EPIC I mean Trebuchets and Catapults)
- No “Holy Trinity” of MMORPGs

Did we forget to mention Jumping Puzzles:

My body is not ready.

P.S: NO MORE CARROTS?!

Dear God. A release date.

August 28th, great date that.