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    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Guild Wars 2 has sold over 2 million copies.

    Though the days of plain old WoW-alike subscription MMORPGs seem numbered, Guild Wars 2 is proving you don't need to go fully free-to-play to find an audience. The subscription-free MMORPG has sold over two million physical and digital copies, publisher NCsoft announced today, and hit over 400,000 concurrent players.
    Sep 13, 2012 9:30am PDT
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    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Guild Wars 2 has sold over 2 million copies.

    Though the days of plain old WoW-alike subscription MMORPGs seem numbered, Guild Wars 2 is proving you don't need to go fully free-to-play to find an audience. The subscription-free MMORPG has sold over two million physical and digital copies, publisher NCsoft announced today, and hit over 400,000 concurrent players. : ShacknewsThis person is cool!

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      Yay, this is great news. Love this game. I just hope people will continue playing via PVP once everyone h... : Sgt_BoomstickThis person is cool!
      • I've been having a blast playing. While there's not a whole lot of innovation they did everything great.... : Onumis
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      I'm interested in knowing what their content expansion plans are going to be like. Will they do big retai... : joesnizzle
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        according to one dev today lots of free stuff, eventual expansions: "No need to buy them, Gw2 will fea... : thebigbeefsandwich
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          Since they've got skills tied to weapons, it'd be neat if expansions added new weapon types (I'd love a s... : Vincent GraysonThis person is cool!
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            I'm sure they will, as well as new class types and possibly races. : one random winner
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              Yeah, I figured new classes are likely. I guess new races would surprise me, but I wouldn't complain. : Vincent GraysonThis person is cool!
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                I really, really want to be that polar bear race. : Sgt_BoomstickThis person is cool!
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                  Those bird/hawk dudes look neat. : breadsticks
                  • If they made playable Skritt and Hylek races, I'd have no choice but to play them. Hopefully they'd ... : jet-poopThis person is cool!
                • Yes! That would be something I'd absolutely buy another character slot for. : Vincent GraysonThis person is cool!
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            I would love for them to add on to the combat system and have alternate weapon skills added onto a weapon... : Sgt_BoomstickThis person is cool!
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              They should add weapon level tiers, so that would be your first tier, then you get second tier weapon ski... : one random winner
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                Maybe so like Diablo 3 and add modifiers that you could pick : rodneystubbs
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                  Possibly, haven't played D3 and D2 was so long ago I don't remember if it was in there or not. : one random winner
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                    In Diablo 3, you unlock a skill to use and then at later levels you unlock "runes". Each skill has 6 you ... : Vincent GraysonThis person is cool!
                    • I remember reading about that now, something like that could definitely work. : one random winner
                • Agreed, Diablo 3 did it right with the skills. : Sgt_BoomstickThis person is cool!
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              I actually kinda love that part. It's always bugged the shit out of me that you spend 90% of any given MM... : Vincent GraysonThis person is cool!
              • I agree with this too, except the nuance is easy to nail down after 20 levels. After that you are just ri... : Sgt_BoomstickThis person is cool!
        • Excellent, thanks for the link! : joesnizzle
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      This game deserves a ton of success, it's awesome. : niceguynickThis person is cool!
      • I agree. I had no intention on playing, until some friends dragged me in saying how good it was. I am gla... : SunnyTelight
      • Agreed. It could use some refinement here and there, but all those beta weekends paid off: they had a ter... : EntityThis person is cool!
    • So far I'm enjoying this MMO a lot more than other recent games. : Proven28
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      Bought it, played a weekend, haven't played again :( I don't know why. It was fun and I can tell it's ... : freakynipples69
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        WvW is perfect for that. Seriously, it's 75% of my gameplay. Probably more actually, and I've leveled up ... : Visceral MonkeyThis person is cool!
        • Yeah I gotta give it more of a chance. : freakynipples69
      • The nice thing about GW2 is you can just play it on the weekends like I am doing. : rosewoodThis person is cool!
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      Loved the game but a recent patch made my fps go from 50 to 10 and it is now unplayable. : scatterblack
      • A lot of people are reporting that :( Performance seems to be getting worse and worse across the board... : Visceral MonkeyThis person is cool!
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      Fun with maths! GW2 has sold 2 million copies. Assuming 1 mil are NA, and 1 mil are EU, and 25% of th... : pantsburgh
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        Of course, that assumes the 400k number is at all times and that everyone actually wants to play WvWvW. ... : Vincent GraysonThis person is cool!
        • I would be surprised if 50% of the playerbase knows about WvWvW. : Sgt_BoomstickThis person is cool!