Post by Morreion on Apr 25, 2009 8:36:38 GMT -5
Guild Wars : 6 Million Copies Sold
A very good accomplishment!
Sure, Guild Wars is not a traditional MMO- more of a series of instanced hosted zones.
But.
Compare the success of Guild Wars to 2 other games NCsoft has shut down- Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa.
'But those were FPS-style titles', you say. Yes. But they went down because there was a monthly subscription fee. Guild Wars has no subscription fee- you buy the box and play. You buy periodical expansions (which of course have built-in game incentives to purchase. Expansions always do.)
To me, this shows that there is a lot of room for a buy-the-box-and-expansions model without a subscription. FPS players expect this.
Maybe it's time that MMO players expect more of this as well.
NCsoft®, the world's premier publisher and developer of massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), and ArenaNet®, a wholly owned subsidiary of NCsoft and the acclaimed developer of Guild Wars®, today announced that on the cusp of its fourth anniversary, the Guild Wars franchise has exceeded six million units sold. Guild Wars is the award-winning and genre-defining series that is one of the most popular and successful online role-playing games in the industry.
A very good accomplishment!
Sure, Guild Wars is not a traditional MMO- more of a series of instanced hosted zones.
But.
Compare the success of Guild Wars to 2 other games NCsoft has shut down- Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa.
'But those were FPS-style titles', you say. Yes. But they went down because there was a monthly subscription fee. Guild Wars has no subscription fee- you buy the box and play. You buy periodical expansions (which of course have built-in game incentives to purchase. Expansions always do.)
To me, this shows that there is a lot of room for a buy-the-box-and-expansions model without a subscription. FPS players expect this.
Maybe it's time that MMO players expect more of this as well.
