Guild Wars 2 suffers huge delay Comments by Robert Purchese
MMO sequel now "TBA 2010/11".
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Kazzahdrane
16/02/09 @ 10:28
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Wow, had no idea that City of Heroes/Villains had such low player numbers. Great that it still gets coverage on sites and in magazines, though.
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Really looking forward to GW2, but glad to see there's still a healthy user base for GW1. Ive recently gotten back into it, trying to finish Factions and Nightfall storylines after having already completed Prophecies (to how many MMOs can you say that you've "completed" them? ;)).
Im not too upset by the delay - im looking foward to AION in the meantime. I am a little disappointed that this was pushed to the end of the year, esp. after its already been released in Korea.
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4thVariety
16/02/09 @ 11:13
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Previous quarterly reports always featured the exact amount of people playing. This time NC soft used a few tricks.
They only published the highest number of people who played at the same time during the last 3 months. CoH has more than 15k players, that was just the maximum of people who played at once. Look up Q3-08 to get pinpoint precision numbers for all NC MMOs. Why they did it is a mystery, maybe Aion looks strongest that way. The GW number is not the number of accounts, but the number of boxed copies sold. If you own all four parts, then you will be counted four times in that number. Since GW has no additional fees, that number is the most important one anyway. 6 Million units sold on the PC is quite an achievement any way you look at it. |
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iokthemonkey
16/02/09 @ 11:38
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Yeah, they're not "cheating" when they list the number of GW players - after all, it's not subscription-based so it's a bit like querying Half-Life 2's sales figures for not being "active subscribers."
The thing a lot of people miss is that GW - in terms of bandwidth usage - is nowhwere near as intense as something like WoW. The only time there's any "MMO-ish" content is when you're in a city. In effect the cities are just lobbies and most of the game is played locally anyway, which will probably save them a fortune in overheads... |
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4thVariety
16/02/09 @ 12:12
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If you look closely you can see what it costs NCsoft to run all their sever and internet bills for 3 months. It's $1.5 million for all MMOs and all websites combined..
The hosting and bandwidth costs for running an MMO are next to nothing. It's an urban myth that the subscription costs come from server costs. You can read it in the business report for yourself. It lists all the costs of running their business. Server costs are negligible. |
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