Guild Wars

hi im just wondering something, does guild wars have 5 million players or just 5 million boxes sold? because if its players it has to be some kind of error i mean how would they possibly hit 5m players so soon if they never advertise or anything?

also when they hit 4 million not to long ago i read from the gw:eotn guide about Anet saying "im sure the rest 399,999,999 of you people are nice" so that probably means they hit 4m players and not boxes sold.

so now im sure they have 5m players.

Most likely boxes sold. Guild War's population is decreasing or at least feels like it.

no the 5 million is the total number of Registered accounts

that includes accounts that contain more than one campain

here is a pic that i captured from the about us part from ncsoft website

the pic was taken before the 5 million thing

It's 5 million registered accounts (as you can see in the post above), but that doesn't mean it's 5 million active users, or I would rather say that the chance it's not is 99,99%.

mmm , let me guess , all of the posters are wow fans ... maybe not

anyway , 5 million boxes sold , is what they say in the press conference.

now becose there is no monthly fee , all boxes sold are active acounts.

people dont need to pay to be able to get in and play , they have the acount , if they want , just get in and play.

guildwars is the only game i play , and the game DOES NOT feel like its losing people ... actualy it feels like we have a brutal income of noobs everywhere.

the last thing I read was GW seemed to maintain about 2 million *active* players... I can think of at least 7 people I know who bought GW but don't play it for various reasons. The population in game seems to explode on holiday events though.

Originally posted by neoteo

mmm , let me guess , all of the posters are wow fans ... maybe not

anyway , 5 million boxes sold , is what they say in the press conference.

now becose there is no monthly fee , all boxes sold are active acounts.

people dont need to pay to be able to get in and play , they have the acount , if they want , just get in and play.

guildwars is the only game i play , and the game DOES NOT feel like its losing people ... actualy it feels like we have a brutal income of noobs everywhere.

However I think you did slightly over-react with your WoW fans comment...

I stopped playing guild wars everyday (which I had done for 2 1/2 straight years) back in November and I fine myself drawn back to it more and more again.  I think there are just as many people on as before but as Neo said...there is a huge amount of new players.  And as usual, at least PvP wise they all use wiki FoTM builds.

I am a PvEer by nature and the problem is, I feel I am too good at it.  Give me a somewhat competent group and I could help plow through pretty much any mission.  Obviously mistakes happen and sudden wipes occur to groups, but overall I feel I have mastered that aspect.  I know there are tons and tons of players that might be better than me out there, it is just my reasoning for shying away from the game for a while. Near 3000 hours of game time help you get a feel for things.  It has been interesting though now that we have moved our guild into a HM alliance...I am enjoying new strategy and build changing again and that is what is drawing me back little by little.

GW was and always will be my first love.

Now what would be interesting is if Anet advertised total characters like some games do...5 million x 6 characters average.  GW tops the 30 million character mark!!!!!!!!!!one!shift+1!!!one!  Remember people you can always make numbers and statistics say whatever you want and there are people who will always take them for undeniable fact.  If you enjoy GW great welcome to the club, if not move on...people should only play what they enjoy.

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5 millions registered accounts doesn't means 5 millions of players.

I've bought Guild Wars about year ago and I haven't play this game for about 6 months now because it's BORING.

Go buy WoW. There are 10 millions of PLAYERS.

this info is a year old - but it give a general idea
gigaom.com/2006/10/26/guild-wars/

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Garriott estimates 100,000 people play Guild Wars across the US and EU at any given time, and 1.5-2 million total every month

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oh so its 5m users!

thats prob like 1.5m left. i hope they all come back for guild wars 2.