In a recent Facebook post, the ArenaNet team mentions that in order to prevent players from experiencing issues while playing the game, they have temporarily stopped all first-party sales of Guild Wars 2 via guildwars2.com.
However, you can still purchase boxed versions of the game and digital versions from other retail partners.
I guess that having an issue where you need to halt sales due to the immense popularity of your game isn’t such a bad thing. With game sales well over a million, the game has clearly generated a solid fan base. Once server activity is under control game sales will resume.
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