{"id":1417610,"date":"2025-12-06T21:58:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/EW7WSJ7xLzbTBTgjkiuc2m"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:58:41","slug":"players-are-piling-in-to-the-guild-wars-remaster-and-its-giving-the-servers-trouble-demand-for-guild-wars-reforged-blew-past-our-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/players-are-piling-in-to-the-guild-wars-remaster-and-its-giving-the-servers-trouble-demand-for-guild-wars-reforged-blew-past-our-projections\/","title":{"rendered":"Players are piling in to the Guild Wars remaster, and it&#8217;s giving the servers trouble: &#8216;Demand for Guild Wars Reforged blew past our projections&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>There&#8217;s still nothing quite like the original Guild Wars. It came out before World of Warcraft had crystallized the face of the modern MMORPG, and was as inspired by Magic: The Gathering as it was by Everquest or Ultima. It turned out as more of a co-op ARPG with shared town hubs, dual-class deckbuilding, and a cutscene-driven narrative\u2014and that unique confluence of inspirations may be why it&#8217;s still popular today. So popular, in fact, that it&#8217;s even a surprise to developer ArenaNet.<\/p>\n<p>The game&#8217;s recent remaster, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/mmo\/guild-wars-celebrates-20-years-with-a-reforged-overhaul-thats-free-for-existing-players-and-offers-the-whole-shebang-to-newbies-for-usd20-it-was-a-good-time-to-give-it-a-refresh\/\">Guild Wars Reforged<\/a>, launched Wednesday as a free update for existing players and an inexpensive way to get in for newbies. While most Guild Wars fans are on to the game&#8217;s more traditionally MMO-ish <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/mmo\/guild-wars-2-visions-of-eternity-is-the-mmos-best-annual-expansion-yet-but-the-real-test-is-going-to-be-whether-it-can-keep-up-the-momentum\/\">sequel<\/a>, Reforged still brought the game&#8217;s concurrent player peak on Steam up to over 5,000 at time of writing, according to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/29720\/charts\/\" target=\"_blank\">SteamDB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That may not sound like a lot, but it&#8217;s floated for the last several years at around 200-600, and since the game came to Steam relatively late in its life, there&#8217;s likely a big contingent of people playing on the standalone client available on ArenaNet&#8217;s website (anecdotally, that&#8217;s how I play both Guild Wars games when the mood strikes).<\/p>\n<p>The population surge was met with surprise from ArenaNet, which shared <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GuildWars\/status\/1996722265573199948?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">a post on X<\/a> saying, &#8220;Demand for Guild Wars Reforged blew past our projections, causing long downloads for some non-Steam players. We\u2019re adding servers &#038; exploring new options to fix this before the weekend. Thanks for your patience!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mercifully, it doesn&#8217;t sound like anything game breaking or even unexpected when an online game gets such a sudden spike of players. If anything, I&#8217;m just happy to see people diving into the original Guild Wars; the remaster doesn&#8217;t look like a huge iteration on the original game, but the chance to see pre-Searing Ascalon abuzz with novice players once again is a tantalizing prospect indeed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"26c1fdd3-c19e-419d-9a88-eaea5b08d2b2\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:400px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Vji3V6i3HDWUHeQ22PrjFL\" name=\"New Project (8).jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/players-are-piling-in-to-the-guild-wars-remaster-and-its-giving-the-servers-trouble-demand-for-guild-wars-reforged-blew-past-our-projections.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"26c1fdd3-c19e-419d-9a88-eaea5b08d2b2\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: This year&#8217;s upcoming releases<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/mmo\/players-are-piling-in-to-the-guild-wars-remaster-and-its-giving-the-servers-trouble-demand-for-guild-wars-reforged-blew-past-our-projections\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s still nothing quite like the original Guild Wars. It came out before World of Warcraft had crystallized the face of the modern MMORPG, and was as inspired by Magic: The Gathering as it was by Everquest or Ultima. It turned out as more of a co-op ARPG with shared town hubs, dual-class deckbuilding, and a cutscene-driven narrative\u2014and that unique confluence of inspirations may be why it&#8217;s still popular today. So popular, in fact, that it&#8217;s even a surprise to developer ArenaNet. The game&#8217;s recent remaster, Guild Wars Reforged, launched Wednesday as a free update for existing players and an inexpensive way to get in for newbies. While most Guild Wars fans are on to the game&#8217;s more traditionally MMO-ish sequel, Reforged still brought the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/players-are-piling-in-to-the-guild-wars-remaster-and-its-giving-the-servers-trouble-demand-for-guild-wars-reforged-blew-past-our-projections\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1417611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,135],"class_list":["post-1417610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-mmo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Players are piling in to the Guild Wars remaster, and it&#039;s giving the servers trouble: &#039;Demand for Guild Wars Reforged blew past our projections&#039; | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There&#039;s still nothing quite like the original Guild Wars. 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