As you can read here (when the boards aren’t lagged to death), the closed beta test is going to end tomorrow (15 PDT). My interpretation of the news is that they’ll open the subscriptions for the open beta as the servers go down and there will be a delay before the actual start of this new phase.

It seems also that the rumor of the game being released on the 22 November is true. In the meantime I play Guild Wars “world preview”.