Story:  http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=30544

Grats to ANet, I feel like the game is really deserving of its success, and I hope to be playing it and its future expansions for years to come :).

Originally posted by kadepsyson
Or, post in the news thread on the front page of this very website.

 Blargh, that's what I get for going direct to this forum lol :).

Feel free to delete mods.

Originally posted by laserit
Wonderful game, absolutley love the artwork and zone design. My only gripe so far is that I wish it was a bit more challenging.

 Do an explorable mode dungeon, or go to a place called "Obsidian Sanctum" in the Eternal Battlegrounds :).

About what I was expecting.

Shouldn't take long to hit the 3 million mark.

Gotta love the spin going in the news thread about this.

It is fun.

- 1 million signups in 48 hours.

Hater spin:

Meh.people signed multiple time, it was free and  tt will never translate into 1 million pre-purchases.

- 1 million pre-purchases and 400K concurrent users.

Meh everyone that wanted to play the gamepre-purchased. It wont sell much more.

- 2 million after 2 weeks and 1 week with digital salles off and almost no units in sotre.

Meh people are leaving the game, soon will be dead, the saviour of MMORPGs should sell more, too casual, to mass market, too niche, no sub can't be profitable,...

Next chapters soon....

Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter

About what I was expecting.

Shouldn't take long to hit the 3 million mark.

Yeah, it will definitely easily pass 3 million before the end of the year, as predicted.

Excellent and honestly, no one should be surprised. Over its life the original Guild Wars sold 6 million copies. 

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Originally posted by Paragus1
Even if this game were to fail, it would be hard to monitor it since there are no active subs to count.

This is what is important.  Anet doesn't really care about box sales as long as they meet what they expected.   Their main concern is cash shop sales and it should be the main concern of everyone else also.   If cash shop sales slump then players can expect more character enhancement items to creep into the cash shop. 

Originally posted by thinktank001

Originally posted by Paragus1
Even if this game were to fail, it would be hard to monitor it since there are no active subs to count.

 

This is what is important.  Anet doesn't really care about box sales as long as they meet what they expected.   Their main concern is cash shop sales and it should be the main concern of everyone else also.   If cash shop sales slump then players can expect more character enhancement items to creep into the cash shop. 

Well that's an interesting spin to put on it, as this thread is about anet announcing a unit sale mark... I think they do care about unit sales. 

Originally posted by xpiher
Every new MMO has 3 peirods of sale life: Inital sales, 2-3 month sales (a lot of people wait until that time for all the bugs to be squashed), and "then the try our game" sales. GW2 and any othe game launched around this time will also get the "holiday sale" bump. So yeah, I think its reasonable to assume GW2 could approach 3mil units sold. 

no it doesn't... look at TSW, they didn't sell nearly enough to be profitable.