Originally Posted by
GayGirlie
Well, I obviously do not have any exact numbers to throw around, but just by looking at the most popular Guild Wars 2 videos on YouTube you see the most popular videos have received well over 700k views. If even half of those people buy Guild Wars 2 at the predicted 59.99€ price the devs will have just made 21 million Euros. The likely number of people who end up buying the game will be a lot higher than that, not to mention how many people are going to buy Collector's Editions and whatnot. So, at this point they've already way past of breaking even, but that's not enough: they are still going to get a good trickle of money from their GW2 store from all the little goodies people wish to buy, including the extra character slots and whatnot.
I just really don't share your pessimism here. All my "evidence" is obviously anecdotal, but atleast my opinion gathering from it all is that they're going to do perfectly fine.