Guild Wars 2

Reduce the cost for waypoints and repairs for low-level characters during the first few weeks after an account is created.

Background
A lot of in-game costs are important to reduce the inflation that is inevitable among all MMOs. It’s also important, for gaming purposes, to provide disincentives to death and to warping around (instead of stopping to smell the Red Iris Flowers).

On the other hand, it’s very frustrating to be a new player and to feel at the mercy of these in-game costs. The amounts are negligible for new characters on existing accounts, but they feel exorbitant if you just started.

Similar mechanics
The game already includes limits (for other reasons) on how much money one can email to an account based on the account’s longevity and playtime. This cost reduction would work the same way: a new account would pay the least on the first day and after a week or three, would pay the same costs as everyone else.

To reduce the likelihood of abuse, this would only apply to low-level characters, perhaps up to L11.

While and nice thought and all really is not needed, Both when i played my first beta weekend, and my first character made at launch, really… those cost were NEVER a problem

Actually, I think the exact opposite.

Lower costs for new accounts = easier time for bots = bad

I say costs should be roughly the same or a bit higher by default, but:
a) once you complete a zone you get reduced costs on that zone, forever.
b) once you reach a certain level you get reduced costs forever.

Pick one of the above.

what? reduce costs for low levels? :| Even at lvl 56, my repair costs cost < 3-5s (for total repair) and wp is <1s. I disagree for the notion. Mainly coz when I started all my alts, I did not transfer any coin to them as there really is no need for it. I even earned 2-3g on my 56 alt which I transfered over to my main. (I got it all by just selling armors. I even salvage all whites I see (usually) and keep all food/gem/ore/wood/FCMs I see) so I see no reason to lower the prices. Sure at lvl 80 it’ll be very different, but at that point, you should be able to have a good grasp on how to earn some decent coin.

No need, a new account means the player will be low level and therefore have such a low cost as to be negligible. If in that short amount of time you mentioned they were able to get to a high enough level to have the price be more noticeable then that would indicate to me they are not newbies to MMOs and will not be frightened off by such a thing.