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Guild Wars 2: Fastest-Selling MMO in History
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ArenaNet has partnered with a market research firm to assess the sales volume of Guild Wars 2. According to DFC Intelligence, Guild Wars 2 is statistically the fastest selling MMO in the genre's history with over three million units sold in the first nine months.
“After triangulating against multiple data sources, it’s clear that Guild Wars 2 is the fastest-selling Western MMO of all time based on the first nine months of availability”, said analyst David Cole of DFC Intelligence. “This puts Guild Wars 2 in an impressive position when they release in China, where we’ve seen similar franchises really take off”.
Guild Wars 2 is expected to experience rapid growth once it releases in China, where the player-base has the potential to exceed that of the West. To bring Guild Wars 2 to China, ArenaNet has partnered with KongZhong Corporation, a leading Chinese provider of digital entertainment services.
ArenaNet also announced a free trial for players looking to experience what millions of others are already enjoying. New players can create an account starting today and participate in a free trial from Fri., Aug. 23(12:01am PDT) through Sun., Aug. 25. (11:59pm PDT). Players can register for free trial accounts here: http://register.guildwars2.
com/trial
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Expansions don't count. Vanilla WoW didn't sell 3 millions within a year..
good for Anet-well deserved they released a top notch mmo.
I learned mine with AION.
not saying the news is correct, but ive got links to old Blizzard press releases
first day sales
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/world-of-warcraft/569888p1.html
April 2005, WOW claimed 1.5 mill
http://www.gamershell.com/companies/blizzard_entertainment/219363.html
http://news.softpedia.com/news/World-of-Warcraft-1-5-million-subscribers-1549.shtml
June 2005, 2 million
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=5696#.UJEWi4aM-yo
July 2005, WOW claimed 1.5 mill in Asia contrast to 2mill US/EU
Blizzard's China Success Spawns 3.5 Million WoW Userbase July 21, 2005
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=5989
if GW2 sells in China this year,
GW2 will easily take the claim of Fastest selling mmo in history
EQ2 fan sites
Mea culpa! I was also one of them....shame on me!
And why expansions don't count? or we count expansions only when it is convenient to make case in favor of GW2?
"The problem is that the hardcore folks always want the same thing: 'We want exactly what you gave us before, but it has to be completely different.'
-Jesse Schell
"Online gamers are the most ludicrously entitled beings since Caligula made his horse a senator, and at least the horse never said anything stupid."
-Luke McKinney
Dont be so hard on yourself. Everybody makes mistakes.
:P
Expansions are not games. The article is about the fastest selling GAME.
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the way its worded -- the claim is correct
Guild Wars 2 is the fastest-selling Western MMO of all time based on the first nine months of availability
EQ2 fan sites
Expansions are not games? i guess we learn something new everyday on these forums.
"The problem is that the hardcore folks always want the same thing: 'We want exactly what you gave us before, but it has to be completely different.'
-Jesse Schell
"Online gamers are the most ludicrously entitled beings since Caligula made his horse a senator, and at least the horse never said anything stupid."
-Luke McKinney
Those annoucments seem to read that these are WOW's subscriber numbers, not necessarily their total sales. Regardless Blizzard still crushes Gw2 in terms of actual revenue.
Another thing to be wary of is that if you hire a marketing firm they tend to validate whatever conclusions they think will keep you happy and paying them their fees. I'd prefer a more independent source but can't happen, so these results are more "guesses" than anything else.
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They are add-ons to an already existing game, you can not play mist of pandaria or any of the other expansions without the base game. Its more akin to a big DLC
If they were stand alones it would be a different story.
Because expansions are additions to an already released game.
agree they were claimed as subs but blizzard gives a 30 day sub w all purchases
Blizzard announcements were made as soon as the revenue was available from releasing in Euro and China
should the bought units be higher? yes but I doubt significantly so
agree
EQ2 fan sites
3.5 million in the first 7-8 months of release http://www.joystiq.com/2005/07/21/world-of-warcraft-becomes-1-mmorpg-in-the-world/ now 1.5 million didin't buy a box but it's safe to assume we'll get a number close to if not over 3 million in 9 months. After all 2 million subs today doe snot equal 2 million boxes sold total. My money is still on Blizzard selling more BOXES in 9 months than GW2.
Which makes it even more difficult to sell it in huge numbers because it is an expansion. And yet Blizzard does it every time.
It is just very convenient to not count expansion numbers because they make GW2 numbers look bad. I consider every expansion as a game in itself considering the amount of content it adds to already existing game.
"The problem is that the hardcore folks always want the same thing: 'We want exactly what you gave us before, but it has to be completely different.'
-Jesse Schell
"Online gamers are the most ludicrously entitled beings since Caligula made his horse a senator, and at least the horse never said anything stupid."
-Luke McKinney
the claim did say Western mmo - implying not including Asia
there has been no China release for GW2 yet
there is a beta next month for GW2 China
http://www.mmoculture.com/2013/07/guild-wars-2-2nd-test-phase-for-china-begins-in-september/
EQ2 fan sites
and thats were it seems to stay = as you are still paying a sub for a mediocre game- and iam not.
<.<
Expresso, GW2 sold those 3 million games in 5 months. I know its hard for you to admit that something can surpass anything blizzard made. But this time you are wrong.
Go buy MoP without everything prior and try to play. Expansions are not games.
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