Guild Wars breaks 4 million

By Robert Purchese Published 22 August, 2007

Eye of North expansion soon.

NCsoft has just revealed that the Guild Wars franchise has sold over four million copies around the world since launching just over two years ago, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

"ArenaNet's fantastic work on Guild Wars has helped make NCsoft the leading online gaming publisher in the world," commented Robert Garriott, big cheese of NCsoft America.

The series is made up of Guild Wars and two paid for campaigns Guild Wars: Factions, and Guild Wars: Nightfall.

Guild Wars: Eye of the North will be the first real expansion for the game when it's released on 31st August, and will reward existing veteran players with new challenges rather than introduce a new campaign for beginners to ease into the world with.

Guild Wars is a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game that features no monthly subscriptions, a large player versus player aspect, and one giant world so that everyone can play together - leading to numerous large scale tournaments taking place in designated arenas.

A sequel is currently in development and will enter beta sometime in 2008, probably later rather than earlier.

Head over to our Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 gamepages for more information.

Pop over to our Eurogamers Guild Wars Appreciation group to see which of your friends are playing it.

Picture of Robert.

About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

You may also like...

Comments (5) Latest comment 5 years ago

Comments threads automatically close after 30 days, but please feel free to continue chatting on the forum!