Originally posted by umie214

Originally posted by Nadya3

i no longer preorder games.

im very but very cautious about GW2 , so probably gonna wait 2 or 4 weeks after it gets released  before buying, or not buying.

ive never preordered a game...for some reason though i feel really good about this one.

you are wise.

i've wasted alot of money, preordering, buying games.  that were a total let down.  or simply a boredom paradise 2 month after.

To my knowledge this is also the first game I've preordered.  I won't lie, a lot of it was because the promise of the betas, and if I'm any indication, they're going to sell a lot more than if they had just put it up for pre-order.

The OP is biased! Where is my over 9000 selection?!!!!! I demand a remake of this poll!

On a more serious note, I think they sold 50k copies. Mostly because not a lot of people are going to buy the game before it's got a release date.

500K+ easily

800k-1m at least in my opinion. All prepurche box sold tomorrow morning here in Hungary under a hour. I wanted to buy one, but all sold. I got mine today online straight from ANet.

1,700,001

Too many for a game that is still under NDA.

Likely around 250k.

Saw the Cash shop leaked screens.

The items are exactly what I thought they would be, and almost exactly what they are in all other Free to Play games with Cash Shops.

I think the ignorance level is high from people that have never played one of those games, but are commenting on how awful the Guild Wars 2 cash shop is. It seems quite normal.

And if this is what they plan, I am definitely purchasing, I hope they don't change a thing.

About 125k - 150k - there are only so many stupid people in the world at any one time. (me included) :P

The first game I pre-ordered was Star Trek Online, which I have yet to actually install.  This is the first time I have actually pre-purchased two copies of a game.  But this is ArenaNet we are talking about so I know I will be playing it for at least six months.

To adress the OP's question.  I think they have sold about 1,500,000 copies.  I have a lot of friends that are buying two or more copies for thier families (one friend ended up buying 15 copies; I don't understand why).

Honestly, I don't think they have sold as many as they would have liked to.

They are hitting the PR hard with new dev blogs on the CE and such.

I bet pre-purchases will pick up a lot after a couple of beta weekends and maybe a launch date is announced.

I'd expect 1 million+ or so at launch, then the rest is all dependant on how good the game is and how well good reviews/word of mouth spreads.

That being said, just about every new AAA MMO seems to get about 1 million+ subs at launch.

Hype for GW2 is pretty huge, but we'll see how big the marketing campaign is closer to release.

Considering the sudden stress beta test today, i think the numbers are high. BTW many people talk about pre-order. Remember this poll asked about pre-purchases, pre-orders are probably way high.

They will sell a lot more once they wake and realise people need a release date before throwing money around on trust (who would trust an MMORPG developer? lol )

4 and a half copies! 

Originally posted by BadSpock

Honestly, I don't think they have sold as many as they would have liked to.

They are hitting the PR hard with new dev blogs on the CE and such.

I bet pre-purchases will pick up a lot after a couple of beta weekends and maybe a launch date is announced.

I'd expect 1 million+ or so at launch, then the rest is all dependant on how good the game is and how well good reviews/word of mouth spreads.

That being said, just about every new AAA MMO seems to get about 1 million+ subs at launch.

Hype for GW2 is pretty huge, but we'll see how big the marketing campaign is closer to release.

 

They invested a lot.

I wouldnt be suprised that SWTOR = GW2 investment

So its only natural they are pushing PR hard.

Preorder is not that popular with core gamers , But you can also be sure that everyone and their dog will play GW2

Three pre-purchases here... one CE and two Digi-deluxe.

Hmm... so since we're an average family, meaning the average family pre-purchased three, extrapolate that out to the full number of average families in the world... four billion.

More realisticly, I expect nearly 2 million people to be taking advantage of the three day head start.

My guild has 65 pre purchases already....so the grand total is about...100. :D

it will be around 1 million

The retailer for Slovenia (pop 2M) sold out its 175 copies in under 3 hours.

All wild speculation but whatever: If you scale that number to the pop of earth you get an estimate of more than 500k physical prepurchase copies. They werent all sold on the first day but then there s also the online shop so i d guesstimate around 750k copies sold on the first day. The total would probably get to 1,5M this way for prepurchase that is.

What s more interesting is that with around 1M players they ll need about 200 servers for the beta if each holds 5k people. For a BETA! Mindbogling.

how long do you have to wait to get your game code for the game after we do preorder for it?