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193000 persons used anet forums to inspect beta download instructions.
freston
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This number is taken from anet own forum
As it was the preliminary and necesary step to download the client (barring the persons who used the unofficial torrent) , thats the closest number we are going to get to an official figure of beta event participants. Assuming 90% of participants employed the legit download and only 10 % the torrent (a conservative approach) that would put numbers of prepurchases around 220 k.
It could all be bogus, ofc.
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not everyone had to browse tthrough the forums to see how to download the client.
You had to if you followed the instructions on the email. You are right in that not everyone did it, im assuming that most did. It may be my mistake, though.
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There is more to ponder on
the around 40.000 german views
and the 30.000 french
(and i think we can asume that they are not included in the english thread)
there is the ones that have actual just updated the game without going to the forums
there is the claim that if you log out and in again the counter goes up 1 (hard to verify , it doesn't always go up if you review that threaed without logging out).
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if we estimate that the last 2 things (one positive and one negative) cancel each other . The germen, french and english forum is around 250000 now, and might reach close to 300.000 before the weekend.
Btw there is 48 servers , 6000 on each means around 288.000 -
looks like a fair number
I downloaded the client when someone posted a link to the EXE here on MMORPG.com.
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Youre right about the french and german forums, hadnt taken that into account.
I don't trust anyone or especially anything on the internet thank you very much - official sources only please, especially when it comes to .exe's I cannot believe so many people are so freaking reckless.
Must not work in IT like I do lol or perhaps are just a lot more ballsy
don't you think a counter on ArenaNets site is "kind of official" ? Just asking what it else should be. Manipulated ?
Hype train -> Reality
I can acess it with np.
My thoughts exactly when I saw people using unofficial DL's. too much potential for viruses not to mention stolen accounts and PW's.
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I am not sure why anyone would have used a torrent because there was a working download link to the official clouldfront.guildwars2.com servers leaked almost a full 3 days before the emails went out.
I think it is important to remember those are "Views" much like the 10,000 posts or GW2 thread the views were many more times the posts. Eg. I read all those GW2 forum posts at least twice. Therefore Views are not really indicative of "persons used anet forums"
I don't know why anyone would download via a torrent when the link that's going around the internet links directly to the file hosted on guildwars2.com.
The forum is limited to the news section, which is linked near the bottom of the welcome page, atm.
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Yeah im thinking the same thing 250k i reckon was the first BWE number, 2nd one will prob be 500k if not more.
Don't see it doubling. Those on the fence (like myself) aren't going to be swayed to go ahead and pre order now based off of either trolls or drama fanboi write ups.