Guild Wars Reaches 2 Million

NCSoft has announced that the Guild Wars MMORPG franchise has sold more than two million units worldwide.

"We're incredibly pleased with Guild Wars' performance in Europe," said Max Brown, European Sales & Operations Director. "Guild Wars Prophecies was number one for 6 weeks when it launched in April 2005 now we are back with Guild Wars Factions which went number one all across Europe in its week of launch. The interesting thing we are seeing now is that Guild Wars Prophecies is back in the top ten, so the success of Guild Wars Factions is driving sales of Guild Wars Prophecies. The Guild Wars franchise offers tremendous value for money and the reappearance in the charts is a reflection of this."

The original Guild Wars title, released in April 2005, revolutionalising online gaming, shooting straight to the top of the charts in several countries. The hotly anticipated Guild Wars Factions, released April 28th 2006 went on to become the number one game in the US and Europe for the month of May.

ArenaNet continues to take chances in both game design and business model, and it's great to have the fans respond so enthusiastically right out of the gate with Guild Wars Factions," says Patrick Wyatt, co-founder of ArenaNet. "Our fans have been overwhelmingly supportive of Guild Wars and we will continue to make the Guild Wars franchise bigger and better with each release."

This MMORPG has captured millions of players, and currently more than 7000 guilds worldwide are competing in the Guild Wars Factions tournament season, the finalists of which will be flown to Leipzig, Germany in August to compete for more than $100,000 in cash and prizes.