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Guild Wars hits 6 million milestone
ThomasN7
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Congrats to one of the best games ever made.
Just in time for their fourth anniversary celebrations, ArenaNet have announced that Guild Wars has sold over six million copies. Coincidence? We think not but it's still a remarkable milestone for this popular MMO. Remember that market leader World of Warcraft has 11.5 million players worldwide and is subscription based. Guild Wars meanwhile, is free-to-play (plus box costs) and only a few months younger than WoW.
ArenaNet are understandably chuffed about the whole thing, particularly their studio head, Mike O'Brien: "We are humbled by how gamers have responded to Guild Wars over the past four years, and we are proud that the game and its community have helped to continually shape, define, and expand the genre. Our subscription-free business model has proven to be a big hit with gamers, bringing an enormous and diverse online community to the game."
Source:
www.massively.com/2009/04/24/guild-wars-hits-the-6-million-milestone/
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guildwars is defo the best mmorpg ive ever played but like any game its goten old after 4 years so im just waiting for gw 2
/cheer ANET
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But thats based on Box sells. If WoW went by that, they would most likely be double its current numbers.
gratz to ANET and long live Guild Wars!
Have fun storming the castle! - Miracle Max
It is based on accounts activated. For the last time.
Great job Guild Wars!
Guild Wars is definitely the second best MMO I have ever played(behind SWG pre-NGE).
I really hope the developers realize and continue what made Guild Wars such a great game in Guild Wars 2
Tried: LotR, CoH, AoC, WAR, Jumpgate Classic
Played: SWG, Guild Wars, WoW
Playing: Eve Online, Counter-strike
Loved: Star Wars Galaxies
Waiting for: Earthrise, Guild Wars 2, anything sandbox.
with a no subscription it a damn good game and worth the price
That's one nice b-day present indeed
Grats!
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Guild wars is not an mmorpg in my openion but its better than most mmorpg out there and ANET deserve it
March on! - Lets Invade Pekopon
It is based on accounts activated. For the last time.
How many people buy the game and don't activate their free account?
This is a very good news for Guilds War!!! Just curious, how many subscriptions does World Of Warcraft have at the moment??
And how many thousand have been gold farmers?
Count me in for 2 .... bleh. I sold both copies on Ebay in less than a week. GW 2 might be decent ... not a fan of the current instancing though.
And how many thousand have been gold farmers?
and what mmo dont have goldfarmers?
March on! - Lets Invade Pekopon
It is quite a milestone, still doesn't come close to the juggernaut of WOW, which probably has sold 30M + copies of their game (counting all expansion sales)
But is was a major player in its day.....
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and you do know gw has 4 expansions? its accounts activated
It's a slightly different metric between, say, a WoW gold farmer/seller and a GW one.
If WoW has 10,000 botting/gold selling accounts at any given time, whenever an account gets banned, another key is bought to replace it. Since WoW only tracks subs, 1 account closed + 1 account opened = 0 net change.
If a GW farming account is closed, the farmers activate a second account. Over a few months of operation a farmer could activate quite a few accounts, all of which will appear in the sales figures.
It's a slightly different metric between, say, a WoW gold farmer/seller and a GW one.
If WoW has 10,000 botting/gold selling accounts at any given time, whenever an account gets banned, another key is bought to replace it. Since WoW only tracks subs, 1 account closed + 1 account opened = 0 net change.
If a GW farming account is closed, the farmers activate a second account. Over a few months of operation a farmer could activate quite a few accounts, all of which will appear in the sales figures.
Yet the number of gold farmers in Guild Wars is completely dwarfed by the number of gold sellers in games such as WoW. There really is no comparison between the two due to there being such a difference in size.
And secondly, at the poster who made the comment about people buying the game and not activating the account - what exactly is your point?
Congrats to you GW and Anet
Boxes sold and accts created can be much different. On Ebay at the moment there are lots of 100+ Factions boxes. That counts for boxes sold but not accts activated.
To the gold farming debate it is old and most of us think its redundant. Why do people always have to bring down a good game? Do you feel threatened?
-Almerel
Hello my old friend.
NOT trying a bring down a good game. I wouldn't have dropped the countless hours into GW if I didn't like it. However, prior to the latest content update, GW just didn't feel like a game that had even a fraction of 6 million users.
I have to give Anet credit however, game seemed far more active this past week.
Guild Wars is bloody good value for money.
I wont argue with you about that.
-Almerel
Hello my old friend.