Guild Wars 2

Some retailers are still selling boxed editions of the core game (usually the heroic edition) and at low low prices, presumably because HoT is out.
Anyone know if these are still valid? Will the code still work?

They’ll still work for creating paid core accounts. Haven’t bought one since HoT released but I did after they stopped selling the core on the website, and it worked fine.

Curious where you’re seeing it extra low, haven’t seen any drops in price myself so far.

Ta.

Depends what you mean by “extra low”.
I’ve seen prices ranging from £19 from Amazon UK, new and boxed, presumably 100% legit, down to under £10 from various Chinese ebayers “download code only”, presumably not very legit.

The interesting bit is in between where several lesser known but legit-looking sites are selling for the £12 to £15 range, some download only and some physical box. Apart from Amazon, these are all “buyer beware” but it surprised me that a non-HoT version is still available at all. I’m a bit tempted to risk one of those middle options.

Ah, gotcha, Amazon’s price has hovered around $20 for a while, oddly the heroic edition being slightly cheaper.
I’ve considered picking up a couple alt accounts this way.