{"id":24269,"date":"2012-09-17T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T07:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=24269"},"modified":"2012-09-17T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T07:17:00","slug":"guild-wars-2-sales-break-two-million-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=24269","title":{"rendered":"Guild Wars 2\u00ae Sales Break Two Million Units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>Critically-acclaimed online RPG quickly surpasses milestone after re-opening sales<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SYDNEY \u2013 SEPTEMBER 17, 2012:<\/strong> NCsoft\u00ae, the world\u2019s premier publisher and developer of massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) and ArenaNet, developer of the renowned\u00a0<em>Guild Wars<\/em>\u00a0franchise, has announced that the chart-topping MMO <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> has sold more than two million units. Despite temporarily halting first-party sales and replenishing retail stores to maintain an optimal player experience, <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> surpassed the two million sales milestone shortly after turning sales back on.<\/p>\n<p><em>Guild Wars 2<\/em>, which launched just over two weeks ago, has captured the imagination of the gaming community around the world. With peak concurrency regularly exceeding 400,000 players and first week sales that placed it at the top of the All Formats charts across ten European territories, it\u2019s clear that demand for the game hasn\u2019t slowed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reactions from around the world justified the time and care we put into developing <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em>\u00a0and making it into the game it is today,&#8221; said Mike O&#8217;Brien, president and co-founder of ArenaNet. &#8220;And this is only the beginning. We&#8217;re continually fine-tuning the game to deliver the polished experience that our players expect, and we\u2019re already working on new adventures and experiences to introduce into this truly dynamic online world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to purchase <em>Guild Wars 2,<\/em> visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myguild.com.au\">www.myguild.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critically-acclaimed online RPG quickly surpasses milestone after re-opening sales\u00a0 SYDNEY \u2013 SEPTEMBER 17, 2012: NCsoft\u00ae, the world\u2019s premier publisher and developer of massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) and ArenaNet, developer of the renowned\u00a0Guild Wars\u00a0franchise, has announced that the chart-topping MMO Guild Wars 2 has sold more than two million units. Despite temporarily halting first-party sales<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=24269\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24270,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24269\/revisions\/24270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}