Guild Wars 2 temporarily stops digital sales

ArenaNet has temporarily stopped selling digital copies of Guild Wars 2 as the servers are becoming too busy.

The game was released earlier this week with ArenaNet saying that having too many people playing may compromise player experience.

A post on the game's Facebook page said: "Ensuring the best possible play experience for our fans is our highest priority.

"We've said before that we would be willing to temporarily disable first-party digital sales if we felt our high player concurrency may compromise player experiences. We have now reached that point.

"Effective immediately we have disabled sales via buy.guildwars2.com."

The post confirmed that players would still be able to purchase the game from other places.

"To be clear, box and digital sales are still available via our retail partners. We are tracking our concurrency closely while expanding our infrastructure. We'll re-enable first-party digital sales as soon as we feel that we can do so safely."