How many people are playing Guild Wars?

Is there any chance to see how many people that play Guild Wars? If not, ArenaNet should make a "Realm" button on thier beautiful homepage. It would be very cool to see how many that is really playing! And I think that might encourage people to play.

Actually, this can be solved quite easily. Just take half of the players from WoW, DAOC, Everquest, City of Heroes, FF XI Online, misc MMORPGs and add them up. Now divide that number by, oh say 100, then do a cube root of that number. Lastly subtract 50 from that number you have right now, and you should come of with the answer of, a SH T load of people playing Guild Wars when it releases on the 28th of this month.

"then do a cube root of that number. Lastly subtract 50 from that number you have right now"

Ermm thought that would give u a small number from a large one... lol :P

yeah but we are looking at a number almost in the billions, i guess, so it really doesn't matter that much

Well since I have played them all lol. I would say there is about 6 mil people playing MMO's and with your math that would lower it to under 60,000 peopleplaying GW
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That is crap for an MMO FYI. If you aint got atleast 200k your community is going to suck

Ok thanks for taking things literally.

Blah, then remove the cube square from my joking answer then.

I think the only thing that really needs to be said is that GW will have just as many, probably even more, people playing it that all the other main MMORPG's out there like WoW and EQ.

Not the billions, no games has subscribers in the billions. EQ is still the leader with 5 million people (Or around there). I believe WOW is in second place. Ill place Guild Wars at 1-3 million.

Just as much? Possibly. More? No. Honestly, the P2P fee means little to adults, which is a large majority of the players. Only kiddies care about the 2 quarters a day.

Just from the beta and seeing the awesome graphics and sweet content a lot will.
Now through in the fact that it's a free server and you got yoursel a butt load more . I think this can be a very special game

Someone did not read my first post, because it would be in the near billions if you added up all the players from every MMORPG. In addition, when I say near billion I am not talking about 999 million players. Any ways it really does not matter since I was only joking around.

Heh so these "adults" would rather P2P than play a game that is free, and better than any other game out there ATM. Dosent seem a to mature way to think..................

Im out on my own and P2P does mean something to me, it means im spending money that i realy dont need to.

We can find out exactly how many are playing. Everyone get in a line..good...now count off:

One

Hehe, you jokester ...

Two!!!

what are you kidding? there are adults out there (like me) who think that those who would consider a p2p game as people who flunked math, or at least economics.


edit: also, given how one friend of mine spent over 5 hours trying to d/l the latest WoW patch and actually had to reinstall the entire game because of it, i think we'll have lots of WoW converts soon.

if you really want to be serrious then.....

EQ2 and WoW already had a very large fan base, that is why the have the most subcribers.

I feel that GW will grow very large, but we must give it time to build its fan base.

I doubt GW will have as large a playerbase as EQ or WoW, Just because it hasn't been advertised as much. It hasn't been released yet, So it's numbers will still be good for a release, but not as good as WoW or something like that because that has been out for awhile. I'm guessing GW will have a fairly large playerbase in a matter of weeks, though.

Edit: 3!!

Not advertised much? Damn I remember the hype when I was still playin DAOC like a year ago, most everyone there was talking about converting once it came out lol.

i think that he means no real magazine advertizeing, or tv commercials or any of the other much utilized adertisement that games as large as GW usually do.

i honestly havent seen one advertisement for thegame in all the pc mag's or vid game mags that i subscribe to, the only reason i found out about this game was from word of mouth and a crazed gamestop employee who wouldnt shut up about it...now i can see why

*edit* heres a quick way to see how many people are gonna be in this game at full release, go to every single fansite and add up all the registered members of each fansite, this site alone has almost 3,000 people, then add about 200,000 who dont bother posting anything and just read all those boards as guests, thean add another 100,000 or so people that will prolly just buy the game at full release, then add another 50,000 who will hear about it from a friend andthen go out and purchase it, ect ect ect

Hmm well lets see then,.... 500,000 for last year's premere event, another 400,000 every beta weekend there after (minus of course the die-hards who always join EVERY beta..say 150,000)... Even without doing any REAL math..you're looking at easily over 1 million waiting for release. Either way, a whole lot of other online games are going to feel the GW "pinch". And most of it by word of mouth advertising.