Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure if this is the correct forum for this topic, so I apologise if it should be somewhere else! So, myself and one of my brothers both got Guild Wars 2 at launch. We got 8 character slots each, which made sense as there are 8 different classes to play. Which is great, right? However, my other brother brought the game much more recently (last few months or so) and I learn today that he only has 5 character slots available. I guess this might well be old news, but I was doing some searching around and I can’t find any information about when this number was changed or, more importantly why it was changed. He got the digital deluxe edition of the game too, (this was prior to Heart of Thorns going on pre-purchase) so it seems really odd that he’d have less slots than us.

This seems kind of disingenuous to me, especially since it doesn’t seem to have been mentioned or announced anywhere, but rather the purchase of the game simply included less stuff one day. How long ago did this even happen? Was it announced and I just missed it? Was a reason given? I don’t recall reading anywhere that people who pre-purchased the original game got more so it must have changed at some point no? At this stage I’m just trying to get some more information about this, because it looks more than a little strange and anti-consumer to quietly remove features (even ones as small as individual character slots) from a product already released. Again, I know this might be old news, but I couldn’t find any information on this anywhere.

If anyone can fill me on what’s up here I’d really appreciate it.

The core game never came with 8 slots. Only 5 character slots. You, and your brother, must have purchased additional character slots at some time in the past.

You can check the Wiki for the contents of the original launch and/or pre-launch editions of the game.

Good luck.