Regarding Guild Wars

[Itzena]

Just though I'd pass on some info from elsewhere for anyone still interested.

First expansion is supposedly scheduled for next year.
Also, it flopped in Korea. Allegedly. (SirBruce = www.mmogchart.com person, for those who didn't know).

[Jait]

/shrug

If there's only 27k Koreans to the 700k Americans/UK then those Koreans are awfully good as they make up about 1/3rd of the overall top 1000 guilds.
It's possible, but I doubt it.

[kudos]

Originally Posted by Itzena

Also, it flopped in Korea. Allegedly. (SirBruce = www.mmogchart.com person, for those who didn't know).

Koreans are obviously smarter than US gamers.

[leane]

Doesn't match with other news however...

A friend of a friend told me so


Riiight...

In korea players do NOT buy their accounts, only the internet cafes do and they buy like a special licence. Lineage and Lineage 2 players do not have their own accounts like we do here in the US, thats why the numbers for them are a lot harder to keep accurate track of

Plus Guildwars was ranked as most anticipated game of 2005 in Korea.

Heres the Actual info from NCSoft:

1. U.S and Europe:
- Date of official launch: April 28th, 2005
- Number of accounts activated to date: around 650,000

2. Korea:
- Date of official launch: May 25th, 2005
- Number of license sold to date: around 27,000

Notice its LICENSES, NOT accounts, Those Licenses are to the internet cafes who might have 20 or 30 players playing outta each of them. This is why Korea is listed sepperate for the US/Europe numbers that list accounts. Korean players are just as numerous as the european/NA crowd. This is also why games like Lineage boast about having millions of players, a single person can make 3 accounts if they want, they are just charged by the cafe for their computer useage so it costs them nothing really more than normal.