GW Reaches 5 Million Milestone

And this is the stat sheet that says it all
Notice GW is not in that list, but, DIABLO 2 IS! I rest my case your honor.

I'm not sure it's a fair comparison as we're talking about 5 millions from 4 GAMES (according to that page), which you can also count as 1 game and 3 expansions.

Notice how other games' expansions have separated sell counts?

Please tell me the date that page of that site you are quoting was most reccently updated.

And actually, they aren't Cacheelma. The Sims and stuff includes expansions, it just also breaks it down further (ie, 14 million, 1 million of which are so and so).

If Wikipedia is to be believed, GW is the 11th best selling game of all time. And all people can say is that it hasn't sold as much as WOW and Lineage?

LOI (laughing on the inside)

Gratz to Anet.

LoL, i just have to register to say this, if you read properly, it says by genre, GW probably is not in the Computer role-playing game genre.

If you say Massively multiplayer online role-playing game, even WoW is not listed there due to Lineage 2, LoL try again, noob.

Grats on 5 million Anet!

Look again (or look at the post below you), the Sims, for example, shipped 16 millions, but if you count the expansions too it would be 29 millions (second number).

Congrats to Anet.

This post might give some estimate of GW active population if the assumptions about the Xfire statistics are true.

Congrats Anet! You deserve it!

As a normal computer RPG, it's been an awesome success. As an MMO, not so much (even though it's marketted as one :\ )

Funny thing is, the numbers are so variable.

For example, Half-Life 2. Probably the greatest SinglePlayer FPS of its time and years to come, right? Doom 3 is Right behind it in sales. When Doom 3 came out everyone in the world bought it, most of them were dissapointed.

You don't hear about doom 3 much anymore. It stole a good bit of sales from HL2 though.

Comparing WoW to GW is an epic dissaster saleswise.

GW could better be compared to Warcraft 3.

Why does WoW sell so much better? A few reasons actauly.

A. It had more hype than DOOM 3 and everyone who was willing to pay monthly for a game started planning on it years before release. (They also started convincing themselves it had good graphics.)

B. Everyone loved WC3

C. Everyone was looking for just a MMORPG with quality.

D. Popularity has a major impact.

E. WoW is a cult that sucks people in. (Most of them can stay there for all I care.)

F. Willam Shatner advertised for them. Thats right, Cpt. Kirk! The versy same guy who knocked out an alien with his back! With moves like that, for sure he can beat Chuck Norris!

Oh and G. it has a NUDE MOD! (If Anet lets this happen to us though, i'll drive over there and throw eggs at their windows.)

why do you need to remind, no one even so much as a hint that they thought it meant 5 million players in this thread. looks like another attempt at trolling

why do you spend so much time on these forums when you dont like the game?

For many more it was Mr. T that sold it for them ; ) You can't mess with a Nightelf Mohawk! Oh and Mini Me.

The closest we've gotten so far is making the 15k Druid Female armor braless.

That said, two games that are tailored for entirely different audiences. That was one of the biggest problems with GW1, was that it had very little to offer as an MMO. As an RPG it had a lot and could keep you locked to your computer for a very long time. As long as they advertise the game for the right audience, GW2 will kick much more ass than GW1 ever could.

Also note that we're basing off copies sold (GW) to active accounts (WoW.) This isn't directed to you, but just a throw out in the air: If WoW is as bad as a game as everyone here says it is, imagine how many people had to have bought the game to hold onto 10million players D:!

And Doom 3 kicked ass, by the way. I was so tense, scared and nervous when I reached Delta Labs that I had to turn off my computer. Awesome times >: )

Congrats to ANet

Allow me to be the first.

Damn, just got my press releases through this morning... damn my new job...

Delete please

Ha. Ha. I lol'd.

Gz on 5 mln, how many of them are active players, not bots/gold sellers?

Grats ANET!

Have loved every min of the game play!

Epic... Even the new guy is beating down Sonya

Wasted first post though, imo, WNL - Sonya has proved many times before he/she/it is incredibly stupid

Lol I told you Stormlord I don't take up your bad habits or IGMOisms The truth is in the Wiki and Diablo 2 is on the list and GW isn't. That's all that matters. Plus it took GW 4 titles to reach 5 million sales it only took Diablo 2 two. It's expansion sold 1 million copies if you'd care to look. lol poor loser IGMO hahahaha.