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Guild Wars Hits the Million Mark

Posted by Zonk on from the hacking-and-slashing-with-no-fee dept.

-pms-mistletoe writes "Hot on the heels of World of Warcraft's breaking the 4 million subscriber mark, Guild Wars has also reached a big milestone with over 1 million users. The differences and similarities between the two games are marked, especially given Guild Wars' lack of traditional sharding and no monthly fee. Are these large numbers of players signals that the popularity of MMORPGs is growing? Or are the same people playing both games?"

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  1. Katrina: Number of Users a Coincidence? by justanyone · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does anyone think it's mighty strange that the number of users here coincides EXACTLY at 1,000,000 with the number of people left homeless by Hurricane Katrina?!?!??!

    News reports have cited a figure of exactly 1 million people left homeless. I suspect this is MORE than a coincidence! There have to be larger forces at work here!

    Perhaps all those displaced people have become enthralled with this game and have been sucked up, TRON-like, into the depths of the online environment!!!!

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