when did gw2 open then player market

Guild Wars 2 launched on Tuesday, August 28, 2012, so that is when the game “opened” to players. The player trading market most people mean in GW2 is the Trading Post, which has been part of the game from the early launch era rather than a later expansion feature.

Quick scoop

• Game launch: August 28, 2012.

• Player market: the in-game Trading Post existed at launch as the main player-to-player economy hub.

Why this matters

GW2’s economy was built around the Trading Post instead of direct open player trading, which is part of why the market feels centralized. That design helped create a relatively stable in-game economy compared with many other MMOs.

In plain English

If you were asking “when did GW2 first open and when did its market start,” the short answer is: both were essentially at launch in 2012.