South Korean online game publisher NCsoft revealed that
Guild Wars has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide since the episodic action MMORPG launched five years ago (when the firm last shared sales figures for the title in April 2009,
Guild Wars had sold 6 million units).
Around half of those sales took place in Europe, the company
told consumer site Joystiq. NCsoft noted that
Guild Wars' largest regional audience is in Germany, where it allowed the public to play the PC MMO's upcoming sequel for the first time at last month's Gamescom.
Developed by NCsoft subsidiary ArenaNet, the first
Guild Wars episode released in April 2005, followed by two episodes,
Factions and
Nightfall, and the
Eye of the North expansion. The company is currently working on
Guild Wars 2 and says it intends to release the game "when it's done".
While gamers must first buy a
Guild Wars episode to play the game, the MMO does not require monthly subscriptions to play (users cannot access some content without buying all of the episodes).
Guild Wars 2 will feature a similar subscription-less model.
