Now it’s time! Heart of Thorns, the first expansion of the MMORPG Guild Wars 2, has launched and ArenaNet is releasing some interesting information about it!
We will report about the content of the Heart of Thorns expansion elsewhere, so we will focus here on the information provided by ArenaNet. On one hand, the game can now look back at more than 7 million accounts worldwide. According to an infographic, there are many more entertaining facts about the MMO. It reveals that players have explored the world 1,863,654 times.
Since November 2014, player numbers in PvP have increased by 135% and 712,153,959 fighters have been defeated in the PvP arenas (In this context: Guild Wars 2 Interview: GW2 wants to be an alternative to LoL and CS:GO in eSports).
If you received one Euro for each death, you would be richer than the Queen of England. 67,000 times a day, the capture points in WvW change hands and more than 3 billion supplies, which represent the currency in WvW, have been spent so far. If these were bricks, you could build a building larger than the Great Wall of China.
223,484,104 gifts have been sent through the game’s postal system – an amount that could delight all the inhabitants of Brazil and Chile. ArenaNet is also proud that players have spent over 1.4 billion hours in the game, which is almost as long as there have been humans on Earth.
New adventures await you!
Mike O’Brien, co-founder and president of ArenaNet, is also excited about the launch of the Heart of Thorns addon: “For ArenaNet and the Guild Wars 2 community, this has been a year we will all remember. With the announcement of Heart of Thorns as the first expansion for Guild Wars 2, we excited our fans. Since then, player numbers have steadily increased. Our community is known as one of the best and friendliest MMO communities.
Many of our experienced players gathered in the starter areas to welcome new players on the weekend when the free-to-play model of the main game Guild Wars 2 launched. We are excited to see how our rapidly growing community continues to thrive. We hope that our players enjoy the next part of the journey of Guild Wars 2 that the Heart of Thorns expansion has in store for them.”
If you are active Guild Wars 2 players, you will surely dive into the adventures of the Heart of Thorns addon from today and continue the story that now leads you into the jungle of Maguuma to take on a dangerous Elder Dragon. Let us know your impressions of the addon in the comments.
