Guild Wars takes an interesting stand on real money trading and tells customers to file chargebacks with their credit card companies when they delete your gold you purchased. What the hell are they thinking?
North America's Number One PC Game Confirms More than Two Million Units Sold
June 19, 2006 (BELLEVUE, WA) — ArenaNet®, developer of the world's leading subscription-free online roleplaying games Guild Wars® and Guild Wars FactionsTM, and NCsoft® Corporation, the world's leading developer and publisher of online computer games, announce today the Guild Wars franchise has sold more than two million units worldwide to date. In further news, sales data from The NPD Group shows Guild Wars Factions as the number one selling PC game in North America for the month of May 2006.
"The highly successful release of Guild Wars Factions has solidified the Guild Wars franchise as a mainstay with gamers," says Bob McKenzie, Senior VP of Merchandising, GameStop, Inc. "As a top seller for GameStop and EBGames, we watch with high interest how this property continues to make a stronghold for itself in the marketplace."
When the first installment in this award-winning series, Guild Wars, launched in April 2005, it revolutionized online gaming and was an instant bestseller worldwide. Not to be outdone, ArenaNet's hotly 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 roleplaying games in which players immerse themselves in a rich fantasy world, build personalized 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 complete tournament rules, please visit www.guildwars.com.
GuildWarsGuru.com, a MMO Guru Network site, announces a new contest sponsored by ZboardT with a Grand Prize Bundle worth nearly $290.00
TORONTO, CANADA - April 18, 2006 - The MMO Guru Network site Guild Wars Guru is happy to announce the start of a new contest sponsored by ZboardT to the community.
This contest is open to everyone with a Grand Prize Bundle worth approximately $290.00 and runner-up prize worth nearly $90.00.
To be eligible to win the Grand Prize Bundle, we want to see your Guild Wars Factions Top 10 List. Let's see your originality and creativity as you come up with your own Top 10 List for the new retail release of the Guild Wars campaign Factions coming on April 28th, 2006! This could include: Top 10 Reasons to Buy Factions; Top 10 Things to do With the Factions Box; Top 10 Factions Rumors, anything you can think of to put down in a true or humorous way.
You'll need to submit us your Top 10 List as well as your e-mail address, full name AND GuildWarsGuru.com forum account name. With your submission the GuildWarsGuru.com staff will then decide on the winner and runner-up for the prizes! to see your unique use of the name Guild Wars Guru.
The Grand Prize Bundle includes a spread of Zboard'sT gaming products;
ZboardT - The Ultimate Gaming Keyboard (retail value $49.99)
ZboardT - Factions Keyset (retail value $19.99)
a new Verto GeForce 6600 GT PCI Express 123 MB DDR3 from PNY Technologies (retail value $199.99)
and a ZboardT Gaming T-Shirt (retail value $19.99).
Only one prize will be awarded per individual. The contest deadline is Friday, May 5th 2006 with winners announced on Monday, May 8th 2006.
GuildWarsGuru.com, a MMO Guru Network site, announces a new contest sponsored by Logitech® with a Grand Prize Bundle worth nearly $210.00.
TORONTO, CANADA – March 17, 2006 – The MMO Guru Network site Guild Wars
Guru is happy to announce the start of a new contest sponsored by Logitech® to the community. This contest is open to everyone with a Grand Prize Bundle worth $210.00, as well as a chance to win 1 of 5 G5 Laser Mice.
To be eligible to win the Grand Prize Bundle, we want to see your unique use of the name Guild Wars Guru. We want to see those minds going with creative ideas and originality. Artistic skills are not required. It can be anywhere from spelling out our name in game with bodies, cookies shaped into the name, ink tattoo on your arm, a wallpaper you design, throwing our name or link into a blog or up on a website that you run... anything. You'll need to submit us a screenshot, picture or link to what you have created or put up, as well as your e-mail address, full name AND GuildWarsGuru.com forum account name to be entered into the random drawing. This will also allow you to be eligible for the chance to win 1 of 5 G5 Laser Mice. Everyone can also participate in the open contest for the G5 Laser Mice; you just need to submit your e-mail address, full name AND GuildWarsGuru.com forum account name to be entered into that random drawing.
The Grand Prize Bundle includes a spread of Logitech’s® gaming products; G15 Gaming Keyboard (retail value $79.99), G7 Laser Cordless Mouse (retail value $99.99) and a Precision PC Gaming Headset (retail value $29.95). A grand retail value of approximately $210.00! We are also holding an open contest with your chance to win 1 of 5 Logitech® G5 Laser Mice (retail value $69.99). Only one prize will be awarded per individual.
The contest deadline is Monday, March 27th 2006 with winners announced on Friday, March 31st 2006.
A great party it was. We were lucky enough to get invited to the party. We were not sure what exactly to expect and we ended up meeting a lot of great people from NCSoft and well... Lets just say that with the open bar we had quite a few drinks.
Robert Garriott took a moment to tell all of us about the success of Guild Wars so far. He named a dozen markets where Guild Wars is number 1. We got it all on video. It's in 2 parts. Guild Wars party Video 1 | Guild Wars party Video 2.
A but later after the sun went down the party got very lively with several people ending up getting pushed into the pool. It was all in good fun.
Congratulations to the Guild Wars team for their great success. It's an awesome game....
Read more about Guild Wars release party.
As part of our commitment to bringing you new content via our free live updates, the first streaming update for Guild Wars offers players access to two extensive new explorable areas: the barren expanse of Grenth's Footprint and the fiery depths of Sorrow's Furnace. You can get a sneak peek at these two areas today, with concept art and a bit of the lore on this page .
And on Wednesday, we'll preview this area with an in-game movie, a movie that will also be screened at the E3 trade show in Los Angeles.
On the eastern slopes of Lornar's Pass, north of Camp Rankor rests the deep, slag-strewn expanse of Grenth's Footprint. Once a sacred place for the dwarves of Deldrimor, the peak itself has been completely dismantled, and the land torn open to get at the precious metals beneath the soil. The Stone Summit have dug deep into the Shiverpeak Mountains. Underneath the stripped, barren land, are the all-but-depleted mining shafts of Sorrow's Furnace.
On the heel of Grenth's Footprint lies the gate into Sorrow's Furnace—only the boldest and bravest dare enter.
The Stone Summit have mined this area until the ground itself has caved in, draining it completely, leaving only their tattered scaffolding behind.
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