According to Videogamer.com, NCsoft and ArenaNet announced today that the Guild Wars franchise has now sold over 6 million copies. To celebrate the news, the subscription-free MMO will receive a new content update that will add new quests and more storage options. The party will also be extended into the Guild Wars universe itself starting April 28. We're not sure what the in-game celebration will entail, but we can only hope it will involve digital party hats and confetti.
Crikey, has it really been four years since Guild Wars launched? Apparently so as the official site has just been updated for the game's fourth anniversary, which is happening on April 28th. As with any birthday there are going to be plenty of presents (and of course Birthday Cupcakes) except ArenaNet are the ones doing the giving!
How can you delay a game that never had a set release date to begin with? This is the logic ArenaNet's Mike O'Brien pointed out in a recent open letter to Guild Wars 2 fans. Speculation about the 'delay' began late last week when ArenaNet's parent company, NCsoft, released their Q4 2008 financials that scheduled a 2010-2011 release for GW2.
The team at Guild Wars has just released their newest developer update, which explains ArenaNet's plans with the game throughout 2009. This was something that was alluded to in community manager Regina Buenaobra's wiki journal last week, and speculated upon in the major Guild Wars forums. Now the word is out, and it seems promising for the majority of Guild Wars fans.
Where did you get your several million players figure ?
What I found is this : So far, two Guild Wars games have been released for the PC. The original Guild Wars was released in late April of 2005, and Guild Wars Factions, a stand-alone follow-up, was released almost a year later. Both games have sat atop the best-selling PC game charts, with Factions in the number one slot for the month of May 2006.
2 Million for 2 games by June 2006 means 1 million each. That way, 750K for Guild Wars 2 is not too low, IMO.
Anyone have newer figure than June 2006 article I found ?
Given that Guild Wars has several million players, even if we assume that a third of them are active players who will buy the new game 75DKP does seem very low.
I would like to note that Guild Wars 2 is not going to be published by ATi (which the submitter has stated) but instead, but NCSoft. I also believe that 75 may be a little low for an opening for this stock, but it's entirely too early to tell, as the game won't even go into Public beta until Q3 or Q4 of 2008.
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