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Press Release - October 5, 2006
Guild Wars Nightfall Debuts to Mass Acclaim and Record-Breaking
Numbers in Weekend Global Event
Nearly 500,000 Fans Played more than Four Million Hours in Landmark
Gaming Event!
October 5, 2006 (BELLEVUE, WA) With the October 27, 2006 release
of Guild Wars® NightfallTM drawing close, nearly half a million
players around the world got their first taste of one of the year's
most-anticipated games in last weekend's World Preview Event.
Players spent an average of 8.5 hours each over the course of the
weekend, announced ArenaNet®, developer of the award-winning Guild
Wars franchise, amassing more than four million total hours of game
play. This weekend's numbers shattered the previous attendance
record of three million hours set during the Guild Wars FactionsTM
preview event earlier this year, as fans immersed themselves in the
new Guild Wars Nightfall continent of Elona, sampling the game's
new features, mechanics, and missions.
"We knew we had struck a chord with our players as soon as the
Nightfall World Preview Event got underway," said Mike O'Brien,
co-founder of ArenaNet. "Their response has been amazingly positive
to everything in the game; especially the Heroes." Heroes are a new
feature of Guild Wars Nightfall. They are non-player characters
integral to the storyline that players can customize and control
throughout the game. "Heroes gain experience, follow player
direction in battle, and can be equipped with skills, weapons, and
even secondary professions of the player's choice, said O'Brien.
"They are a wildly popular component to this game that we've spent
significant time developing, and we're thrilled our fans have
responded to it the way they have."
Guild Wars, an instant bestseller in North America and Europe upon
its release in April 2005, and Guild Wars Factions, the number one
game in both North America and Europe earlier this year, are global
online roleplaying games. In Guild Wars Nightfall you'll explore
opulent cities, brave savage coasts, delve deep into ancient
monuments, and find your way across poisonous deserts as you
determine the fate of the new realm of Elona. The Guild Wars
Nightfall Prerelease Bonus Pack is available in retail stores
worldwide now. The Guild Wars Nightfall Standard Edition and Guild
Wars Nightfall Collector's Edition will be released worldwide on
October 27, 2006.
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