Guild Wars Tops A Million

September 22, 2005 12:50 PM

NCSoft sends along a press release announcing that ArenaNet's Guild Wars has sold over one million copies since the game launched late April in North America and Europe. NCSoft is launching the online action RPG in Japan and Taiwan soon.

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stelth

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September 22, 2005 1:06 PM

Proving the pay-for-play monthly format isn't the only way to do MMORPGS. Woop!
- Vincent Grayson
  
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  September 22, 2005 1:11 PM
  
  True, but look at WoW's sales compared to this.
  - Speedy8
    
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    September 22, 2005 2:45 PM
    
    WoW has also been out longer and is already out in more countries. Plus that doesn't take away from Guild Wars' success. There are very few MMORPGs with a bigger playerbase than GW.
- jedi_27
  
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  September 22, 2005 1:19 PM
  
  4mil vs 1mil
  
  proving that pay per month still wins
  - Nation
    
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    September 22, 2005 1:29 PM
    
    we do not have profit numbers, only purchases and/or subscriptions. It could still be that GW is making more profit for the company.
    
    I am a fan of both, I have avoided WofW due to the monthly fee, but my point is that you should not confuse sales with profit.
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      September 22, 2005 1:39 PM
      
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  - yqbd
    
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    September 22, 2005 1:35 PM
    
    now compare it to the other mmorpgs 1m vs ???
  - Chris Remo
    
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    September 22, 2005 2:28 PM
    
    If anything it just proves that WoW "wins" over Guild Wars, and it doesn't even prove that. Guild Wars still has far more subscribers than the vast number of MMOs.
    
    (Btw, this doesn't indicate any preference on my part. I've never played Guild Wars and I think WoW is awesome, so yeah)
- -efx-
  
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  September 22, 2005 2:22 PM
  
  If GW had been the same type of MMO as WoW or SWG or EQ then they would have been forced to charge monthly fees too, hence the comparison doesn't really work.