There's something to be said for a free MMO. Generally bad things, really, but not so much in the case of Guild Wars. NCsoft has just announced that the 2 year-old fantasy MMO has just surpassed the four million sold mark. No telling what the figures are on how many of those players bought the game, played it for a month and then quit like Mike Fahey ended up doing, but impressive numbers nonetheless. Just ask GameStop's Doug Bob McKenzie.
Guild Wars 2 is coming and a big crowd can't wait to start playing, but how popular is Guild Wars really? In a invitation GamersNET.nl received ArenaNet stated that players spend more then 1.172.940.800 hours playing the first Guild Wars games.
NCsoft have released a new free content expansion for Guild Wars. Guild Wars: Beyond continues with the second chapter of Winds of Change, the largest free content expansion in Guild Wars to date. This release sees the addition of eleven more quests, five respawned zones, and numerous hidden scenes for players looking to experience the story to the fullest.
This is a video by TubeElephant. He contacted different branches of the Guild Wars 2 community on Youtube, Forums, Twitter, and more and put together a video with members of the community telling everyone why they loved Guild Wars 2.
Congrats to NCSoft for a job well done. Here's hoping they can bring some of that magic to consoles soon.
Nice figures indeed, but that does not really mean active players. I personally know many who bought it in a belief that it would be great.
I personally have not tried it, heard so much boring stuff about it.
lol i am one of them who brought it and haven't played it since...its ok i guess for a free MMO its really good but just something missing and yea the boring part is right i guess lol...well u get my point once you start playing it
but impressive sales it doesn't matter who brought it and have not played it since aslong as people keeps buying it from them then i guess its impressive