Guild Wars 2 blijft voorlopig nog wel onder ons, zo laat ontwikkelaar ArenaNet weten. De sales van de game blijven nog altijd hoger dan verwacht en het aantal spelers is hoog en constant.
Director Johanson lichtte toe dat de sales wel wat omlaag zijn gegaan de afgelopen maanden, maar dat is ook niet zo gek ruim een jaar na de release. Ook gaat men de game nog uitbrengen in grote pc-landen zoals China, Korea, Rusland, Zuid-Oost Azië en Brazilië. Johanson vertelde:
If you look at any game ever made, a year after release, sales are always dropping – that’s just very normal. We’re also very happy with the rate the sales have been dropping down. It’s actually dropped much less than we would have forecasted. Something people forget about a lot is that we’re already the fastest-selling MMO in history, so even if sales are declining a little bit, that’s on the fastest selling MMO in history. We don’t really have a problem with that. Sales-wise we’re just following what any game would naturally follow.Guild Wars 2 gaat dus stevig door en ArenaNet voegt zelfs servercapaciteit toe om aan de vraag te kunnen voldoen en spelers snel toe te kunnen laten op de spelservers.We’re extremely pumped about adding to each of [the new] regions – we think that that sales number is going to take off again, and we’re going to see a resurgence in territories we are out in as more and more players from other parts of the world get invested. And also as some of the really big projects we’re working on in the background come to fruition, we’re going to see a spike again in users.