guild wars 2 release party!

the game matt has been working on for years (years!) released. now real fans (thousands of them) are playing stuff he designed. it's pretty cool. the game was released early to people that had pre-purchased a copy on friday at midnight and as a secret surprise they released it at 9pm... three hours early. this was confusing to me because i didn't understand how anybody would know it was out early, but i guess people just figure it out... and right away tons of people were playing. like really a lot of people. i was shocked. it blows my mind. here are a few pictures of matt and b at the release party. doesn't matt look excited? he is. it's kind of a big deal!