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Q&A: Guild Wars' Jeff Strain
Guild Wars is an unusual beast among the hordes of massively multiplayer online role-playing games out there; it charges no monthly subscription fees guild wars gold, in stark contrast to other popular titles including World of Warcraft and Lord of the Rings Online. And the strategy is working for ArenaNet, the subsidiary of NCsoft and creator of the title, with the game having sold 3.5 million copies so far.
Guild Wars was launched in April 2005, followed by its first two expansions Factions and Nightfall in 2006. A new expansion, Eye of the North, is due for release on August 31. Guild Wars 2, a completely separate game, is also in production, slated for sometime in 2008. Since Guild Wars 2 will not support characters from the original Guild Wars games, Eye of the North is intended as a bridge between the two, with the Hall of Monuments allowing players to save weapons, armour, and other achievements for retrieval in the sequel.
Jeff Strain is one of the cofounders of the Bellevue, Washington-based ArenaNet, where he currently holds the job title of programmer. Strain leads the production and art teams on the Guild Wars series buy guildwars gold, and before working for ArenaNet he was the team lead on Blizzard's World of Warcraft, a senior programmer on StarCraft, and a programmer on Diablo.
We caught up with Jeff Strain at the Develop Conference in Brighton, where he was showing off the new expansion.
