Originally posted by NomadMorlock

Originally posted by Atlan99
I would say that sales of physical copies of the game are underperforming. In order to help retailers move units Arenanet has suspended sales of Digital copies of the game.

Lol. Someone is living under a rock. They had to halt sales because of the games huge success. 

Bingo!

No conspiracy just "Victims of their own success"

ArenaNet have extra capacity, they are just reserving it to cope with boxed sales as they know exactly how many boxes are available on the market.

Their infrastructure as it stands can cope with that much, they could add more, but reportedly they don't want to risk overloading their infrastructure and negatively impacting the game for those who DO have the game.

It's a smart move and will have a benefit of helping to drive box sales, not that they are really needing it at this point.

What we really want are the numbers.

Have ArenaNet reached 2 million copies sold yet? More?

This was announced already 2 days ago.

I noticed it when i was turned away in every store with the same message: NCSOFT stops sellings for a period of time because server issues (overpopulation).

Luckily I was still able to buy it just after the message :D

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Originally posted by Mothanos Lol haters keep finding a way to troll down Anet, sorry to diapoint you buddy, but the servers are PACKED / FULL / NO SPACE LEFT / WvW has 2 / 3 HOURS quee ! They wont sell anymore boxes untill they want to add more servers or that people get banned like today 3000/4000 accounts perma banned. Keep them hate comming its fun to read :) Also i heared TSW = broke / investors taking a dive and the game is FtP within a month or 2, must hurt you alot OP ? Thats the reason you make hate posts versus Arenanet :) ? Cant stop laughing at people like you :)

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Originally posted by Drafell

What we really want are the numbers.

Have ArenaNet reached 2 million copies sold yet? More?

ive never seen Blizzard announce 1st day sales until after a week has passed

- it takes time to get all the numbers

Diablo3 went on sale 05/15

Blizzard announced launch day sale info  05/23

GW2 only launched 3 days ago (08/28)

should see launch day sales announced next week

Also... I think they want to avoid their servers getting totally nailed over the Labor Day weekend in the USA. I wouldn't be surprised if they experience problems anyway.

Sure, launch was last weekend with 400k concurrent users. I am thinking that this weekend will be the real test.

Originally posted by Drafell

Also... I think they want to avoid their servers getting totally nailed over the Labor Day weekend in the USA. I wouldn't be surprised if they experience problems anyway.

Sure, launch was last weekend with 400k concurrent users. I am thinking that this weekend will be the real test.

They would also like to take some time off over the weekend.. rather than work non stop to deal with overcrowded servers.

Originally posted by Atlan99
I would say that sales of physical copies of the game are underperforming. In order to help retailers move units Arenanet has suspended sales of Digital copies of the game.

This is one of the most moronic posts I've ever read. ANet have a higher profit margin from digital sales sold on the official site, why the hell would they help retailers take a cut of thier own game if they don't have to? Retailers BUY the copies of the game from ANet. They already have the money for every copy held by a retailer.

There are retailers that are sold out as well .. I guess if you really want the game for this weekend, I would get it today if you can find a copy.  New stock shipments listed as TBD.

But really, all but a few servers are listed as full (can't create a character on them) .. so if all the servers are full, I suppose ArenaNet oversold and some people would be really unhappy.  Really, unhappy.

Originally posted by bansan
Remember that Anet HAS to add three servers at a time to be able to have Mists for every server...that means they have to make sure they have enough new folks for 3 servers before they can add.

If sales caught them off guard (which seems likely) then they have to special order their extra hardware, unless they have complete spare systems laying around.  Partials maybe, but complete, hmm...