Guild Wars 2 Exceeds 2 Million Units Sold

This thread just screams what was said about SWTOR last December, right after the much more versatile SWG was shut down to make way for it (which ALSO feels eerily familiar to the current situation)

Then came the Tortanic iceberg. EA's (another rather evil mega game corporation usually referenced by 2 letters) stocks crashed like a stone, half the population left, and SWTOR is going F2P in the fall.

I'd personally like to know how many units sold AFTER the announcment was made.

Guild Wars 2 got a ton of almost universally positive buzz in the months leading up to launch, and by all accounts it is a very well made game, so I doubt that anything would have a significant impact on their sales. Youtube vids of Anet devs and NCsoft execs eating babies and throwing puppies off of cliffs probably wouldn't have slowed the GW2 juggernaut.

If there is lasting fallout from the decision to shut down CoH it won't be in sudden drops in sales of a particular game, but a drop in gamer confidence in NCsoft. This latest addition to their kill list only reinforces NCsoft's reputation as THE MMO Killer.

But it'll all depend on what happens next. I suspect most of those calling for boycotts and the like will forgive and forget... if CoH is saved.

I am actually really enjoying GW2. Did not think I would ever play another fantasy genre after WoW but I am pleased I tried this out.

I reckon once the honeymoon wears off a significant chunk of the hardcore will jump ship to Pandaria.
Thats what my hardcore gamer buddies are doing anyway. SWToR will probably loose a chunk of players too.

I have expected them to do well. But the game is still new and we will see how it will mature.

Personally, I don't want to give my money to NCsoft while they have this management. If their management change in future, I might give it the try, but for now, I will spend my money on non-NCsoft games (and since I have played only GW1 and CoH so far - there are lot of games out there to test).

Let's see if I can get the forums to NOT eat this...

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Originally Posted by TimTheEnchanter This thread just screams what was said about SWTOR last December, right after the much more versatile SWG was shut down to make way for it (which ALSO feels eerily familiar to the current situation) Then came the Tortanic iceberg. EA's (another rather evil mega game corporation usually referenced by 2 letters) stocks crashed like a stone, half the population left, and SWTOR is going F2P in the fall.

Except TOR was a BAD MMO. Seriously. I played it at launch, pre-ordered it and took part in the pre-order sneak peek/betas. Had to go because my PVP guild HAD to play it because about half of them were SW-fanbois and had played SWG. My guild leader was so certain of this game, he offered to buy the copy of anyone who hated it, so everyone could try it risk-free if they wanted.

And it was TERRIBLE. The initial story/playthrough was ok, in a single-player KOTOR sort of way, but the MMO parts of the game were stapled on crooked with a rusty staplegun. And the PvP was beyond belief bad. You had to grind PvP instances to get a chance for your gear, like it was PvE - the SAME three instances you'd been playing all the way up. The PvP world zone was a buggy joke and again, mostly PvE goals. And the game itself had NOTHING for you once you hit top level other than those instances. Over and over. I paid for one month past the free one, to stay with my guild, but by the end of the second month, most everyone was "on hiatus til they fix this." And now scattered to the wind.

GW2 is a GOOD game. More importantly, it's not a sub game. People can come and go as they please. There won't be a huge sub drop when Pandaria comes out, because there are no subs. People can go play WoW's new xpac if they want, drop in for an hour or two of GW2, or just wait til WoW's new content runs out and then go back. It'll be there. And probably with quite a bit of new content, since the Anet team has committed to a lot of little free updates like Paragon did.

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Originally Posted by Slaunyeh What, you have conditions on behaving decently? Just because they are being out of line, is not an excuse for you to be out of line. Both sides could do with with some toning down. The (other half of) the community is not your enemy. (As an aside, I haven't really seen this behaviour from you, Feycat, so this isn't directly aimed at you. But you did reply! )

Nah, that's not how I meant it. More of a "yes, the GW2 people trolling threads should stop. ALSO, the other side should stop throwing monkey poop on people about it." We need unity right now, not infighting, and I'm sure that BOTH sides are driving folks away.

Haven't gone through the rest of the thread, but I'm finding this an obvious comment: The more successful GW2 is, the less NCSoft is going to care about CoX.

Our only hope at this point is for them to sell off the IP, IMHO.