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Guild Wars Hits Two Million
Europe's Number One PC Game Confirms More than Two Million Units Sold
Monday 19 June 2006/... NCsoft® Europe can proudly announce that the
Guild Wars® franchise has sold more than two million units worldwide to
date.
"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."
When the first installment in this award-winning series launched in
April 2005, it revolutionised online gaming and went straight to the
top of the charts in countries all over the world. Not one to sit on
its laurels, ArenaNet's follow-up – the highly-anticipated Guild Wars
Factions, released April 28, 2006 – was the number one game in both
North America 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."
Guild Wars and Guild Wars Factions are global online role-playing games
in which players immerse themselves in a rich fantasy world, build
personalised characters, compete in head-to-head battles with players
from around the world and find adventure in missions and quests. In the
game that has captivated millions of players, more than 7000 guilds
worldwide are currently 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.
For the complete tournament rules, as well as information on both games, please visit http://eu.guildwars.com
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