Guild Wars 2

mulzi.8273:

It may be the cynic in me, but announcing working on an expansion while there is a myriad of bugs and balancing issues currently in the game, I can only think that this will be their excuse for not balancing or releasing any meaningful content until the next expansion.

Sort of like the lead-up to Hot, where updates came few and far between for months.

Think of the devs like this:

you have a total of 100% production. I’m hoping anet is splitting that production up into 80%+ towards current things (bug fixes, LS, balance, etc, which would be divided up moreso), then 20% or less into the next xpac

Donari.5237:

“this is our new model, you’ll have to buy expansions but all earlier versions will be included so no one ever has to buy multiple games at once just to play.”

That means we veterans have to buy base game and every expansion, but newcomers have to buy only the last expansion and get the rest for free. Because Anet doesnt refunds the purchases made long ago does it? And yes indeed, no one haves to buy it all at once. because it is either buy only latest expansion, or buy everything over time.