Guild Wars surpasses 6.5 million sales, sequel will be released 'when it's done'

As Guild Wars 2 preps for its US hands-on debut at PAX this weekend, we followed up with NCsoft about the current state of the series. The publisher informed us that the original Guild Wars has now sold over 6.5 million units. Roughly half of those copies found homes in Europe, with Germany making up the largest fan base, which is why the publisher debuted hands-on gameplay for the sequel at this year's Gamescom.

As for Guild Wars 2's speculated release window, NCsoft is taking the Blizzard approach to the game's launch status and saying "when it's done." A representative for the company told us an MMO -- even one like Guild Wars 2 that is going down a different path -- can't be released nowadays until it's finished. It's a lesson NCsoft learned harshly through Tabula Rasa. Hopefully the eventual launch of Guild Wars 2 will wipe the slate clean of that painful memory.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/31/guild-wars-surpasses-6-5-million-sales-sequel-will-be-released/

Hell Yeahh!!!!

Woah. Amazing sales.

I bought it around the day it came out and I was not really a fan of the game. It was too grey. But I did like that it was free.

Guild Wars 2 has potential to be awesome though. They just have to take care of a couple of things.

It wasn't an MMO by any stretch of the imagination. It was the basic set up of Diablo II, only instead of the Bnet chat rooms you had the little town hubs.

Well yes it was an MMO. Or at least it shared a lot of elements.

Which elements exactly?

Mostly the single player part.

i should consider buying this. someone convince me.

WoW is better :P

im not going to pay for monthly fees :P. i heard guild wars doesnt have.

i support guild wars!!!

my wallet says: guild wars>wow

my heart says: dota>>>>> everything else.

Guild Wars is a good game, don't get me wrong.

But WoW has 20x more depth than any P2P MMORPG out there right now.