Massive Multiplayer Online Industry

Five Million Guild Wars Units Sold

Five Million Units Sold announced NCsoft® and ArenaNet® February 26, 2008.
Published by NCsoft and developed by ArenaNet, the Guild Wars games have been commercial and critical successes since the release of the original campaign in April 27, 2005. Guild Wars, Guild Wars Factions®, Guild Wars Nightfall®, and the recently released expansion, Guild Wars: Eye of the NorthTM is global online role-playing games that allow gamers to play with anyone, anytime, and anywhere in the world. There are not a many realy global projects in the multiplayer online game industry at the moment. The Guild Wars series has set the standard for online co-operative and competitive play with award-winning content and a subscription-free business model. Innovative technology allow compete in head-to-head battles with players from around the world. Online community continue to join in game and stay loyal to the franchise thanks to a business model that makes for a very accessible product. Fans have been overwhelmingly supportive of Guild Wars, and ArenaNet will continue to make the Guild Wars franchise bigger and better. With the development of Guild Wars 2 underway, ArenaNet will continue to provide dedicated support to current games and its millions of customers. Read more: http://www.guildwars.com/events/press/releases/pressrelease-2008-02-26.php

NCsoft has successfully launched multiple online titles in the last four years and continues to support its franchises, which include Lineage®/Lineage II, City of Heroes®/City of Villains®, Guild Wars/Guild Wars Factions/Guild Wars Nightfall/Guild Wars: Eye of the North, ExteelTM, Dungeon RunnersTM, and Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa®. The hugely popular online roleplaying GW games helps publisher NCsoft® Corporation stay on top although they other fresh project Tabula Rasa did not achieve what they expected. More information about NCsoft can be found at www.plaync.com, information about ArenaNet can be found at www.arena.net.

Labels: ArenaNet, Guild Wars, NCsoft

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