Guild Wars 2

They can’t mail but they can join guilds. Farm laurels, convert to materials, deposit materials in the shared guild bank…done. Can transfer all the wealth necessary,

EDIT: I stand corrected, no guild banks either. Interesting. We’ll see how it goes.

EDIT 2: Well only way to go around this (that I found so far) would be to buy some items in gem store as gifts for main account.

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157-Account-types-Free-Core-HoT

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157-Account-types-Free-Core-HoT

Ice.5162:

Free accounts can’t mail kitten. Think.

account a sold out a cheap product from tp and add a cheap item for much money his new f2p account can buy to transfer the gold to the main acc

or other way bankguild

problem solved

think!

Can someone from anet explain this DUMB and UNREASONABLE move please?-.-

FAQ

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157

“We stand by Buy to Play as the best monetization model for players and developers.” And then in the next breath “Which is why we’re going free to play.”

How can a company like Anet say one thing and completely contradict it in the next sentence?

Considering I just got HoT(+base game) a month ago, I feel kinda… not positive.

John Smith.4610:

Don’t worry, the economy will be ok. We put a lot of effort into keeping it protected.

That’s kind of a non-answer. What’s to stop players from just making several accounts, farming the laurels, and then using heavy crafting bags?

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157-Account-types-Free-Core-HoT

Thank kitten.

John Smith.4610:

Don’t worry, the economy will be ok. We put a lot of effort into keeping it protected.

The sad thing is you actually believe that. There is no economy, no game will ever have an economy. Yet you keep believing you can just adjust droprates to keep your “economy” protected.

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157

Free accounts:
- Do not get daily login rewards.
- Cannot map chat.
- Cannot mail non-mutual friends.
- Cannot enter WvW until level 60.
- Need to unlock squad chat and LFG individually on each character by reaching level 30.
- Can only sell selected items on the TP.

John Smith.4610:

Don’t worry, the economy will be ok. We put a lot of effort into keeping it protected.

John, help us! The site doesn’t list what items exactly free accounts can buy/sell!!!!!

From FAQ:

Can buy and sell items from a selected list.

Looks pretty good to me. I know this worries a lot of people, but I don’t think it will hurt the game.

Free accounts do not get daily login rewards.

Source: https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157-Account-types-Free-Core-HoT

Zaron.1987:

Ice.5162:

Free accounts can’t mail kitten. Think.

account a sold out a cheap product from tp and add a cheap item for much money his new f2p account can buy to transfer the gold to the main acc

or other way bankguild

problem solved

think!

F2P account is TP limited

“Can buy and sell items from a selected list.”

xinkspillx.3914:

Giving f2p accounts log-in rewards is a serious slap in the face. :/
We need an official statement about this that includes all the details.

That’s why THEY DON’T GET THEM.

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157

Setz.9675:

“We stand by Buy to Play as the best monetization model for players and developers.” And then in the next breath “Which is why we’re going free to play.”

How can a company like Anet say one thing and completely contradict it in the next sentence?

*cough*ascended gear*cough*

Not completely surprised about the restrictions. However Anet trying to force SMS is a terrible idea, while luckily grandfathered in, it is still a petty way to promote the service.

Yeah. I just hope this doesn’t get merged with the other threads. It’d help calm everyone down once they’ve read it.

Look f2p should NOT and I mean NOT have access to WvW for obvious reasons, have you ever heard of server spys, its a real thing and now you just made it easier to do thanks alot Anet. Also not happy that they can go all the way to max level like come on slap a lvl cap on that thing make them actually want to buy the game. and Don’t let them have daily rewards. Still not happy at all really about this I feel like this is a huge slap in people’s face who actually paid for the core game. I paid 60 bucks for the core game when it came out. Cause honestly right now I feel that everyone who spend 10 to 60 bucks should get refunded by Anet personally for this ridiculous thing. But in reality the least I want done is f2p Accounts CANNNOT GO INTO WVW. Please like seriously you guys are making spying to easy its stupid.

yes !! TY ANET

Literally no one in this thread has any foresight beyond what they want for themselves…

Healix.5819:

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157-Account-types-Free-Core-HoT

Thanks for this

Yeah F2P accounts won’t get the daily login bonus

The tp items should be white gear only I hope.

And pm a new person every 30 seconds still is not good with gold sellers, maybe one pm to a new person every 10 minutes

Read the FAQ:

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157

Jeez, people. Calm down a bit and read the FAQ first before doomsaying about the economy, will you…

For those who said things about laurels destroying economy, free accounts can’t get daily login reward. They also dont have access to guild bank to transfer stuff. Or mail for that matter.

Agent Noun.7350:

xinkspillx.3914:

Giving f2p accounts log-in rewards is a serious slap in the face. :/
We need an official statement about this that includes all the details.

That’s why THEY DON’T GET THEM.

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157

I posted my comment BEFORE that went live.

Seems good to me, great restrictions in order to keep the control of the economy

Eh. So only real news is I get a free outfit and the ability to grind out my Belcher’s Bluff wins without bothering anyone else… That’s… cool?

Read the FAQ:
https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157

doesn’t matter they can still go into wvw on another server and spy, f2p account should not by any means have access to wvw.

While I don’t play WvW as much as other members of my guild, they have mentioned that this was a cause for concern should the game go F2P. Although…

Perhaps it would be more prudent to give F2P players access to only EotM, as an example, and to monitor the interaction between these new accounts and older ones, if that’s possible.

If you read the restrictions, this is essentially a non-level and non-content limited free trial. You can technically do everything in the core game, but there are enough restrictions that you’ll feel prodded to buy the game.

There are very few PvP-related restrictions, though, so players who are only interested in PvP can probably play for free indefinitely (provided they don’t want elite specs or Revenant, of course).

xinkspillx.3914:

Agent Noun.7350:

xinkspillx.3914:

Giving f2p accounts log-in rewards is a serious slap in the face. :/
We need an official statement about this that includes all the details.

That’s why THEY DON’T GET THEM.

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157

I posted my comment BEFORE that went live.

Then why rush on the forums to post that? What exactly was the point of your post?

Hm, ok than, seems like a fairly good net to restrict gold sellers.

Menadena.7482:

Well, you were good while you lasted.

I didnt decide to crash it just yet.

Yeah, I think they’re doing this right. We can expect a big influx of players, but that’s a good thing.

Boy is that super convenient for Anet, nope, no way gem store is changing, for sure.

I’ve always felt like T6 crafting bags for 1 laurel was kind of exploity anyway, given how easy laurels are to acquire. I fee like each tier of crafting bag should cost one laurel more than the previous tier, i.e 7 laurels for one T6 crafting bag.

Wanze.8410:

Menadena.7482:

Well, you were good while you lasted.

I didnt decide to crash it just yet.

We could crash the market for a certain item. I am sure you know which one :p

I would be hard pressed to call GW2 economy “good”.

Uriel.6310:

My mouth just dropped.. I don’t know what to say..
1. So.. down the line when we get to expansion 2 and 3… does HoT become free to the newer players after that??

And more importantly,

2. How does this now affect the economy??

Arenanet, this A HUGE smack to the face to every loyal GW2 player since day one, heck even GW1… nothing to compensate to veteran players besides mediocre birthday presents and…… “A” outfit?? Really? Is this what all my money has earned over this years?

I don’t think Arenanet owes us any “compensation”. What about the 3 years of GW2 we’ve been playing? So “all your money” you have spent over the years was so you could earn rewards now? Umm, I think not.

To me this news doesn’t affect us in that way. I’m more concerned about the community changing, and possible abuse. But I feel those were both addressed well in the announcement, and I see this now as simply a marketing strategy, a “hook” to get people to try the game. I do believe, if they like the game enough they will buy the expansion, if not, they probably won’t play that long.

I have read it. It does not say what items. If anything on that list can be harvested, crafted, salvaged, or bought they have basically crashed the TP for that item. About the only way they could do that is to declare the TP totally off-limits to FTP players for selling anything.

0/10 would not read this thread again.

I am pretty new in this game also not play that often. I bought the core game in March and hope for just buying an expansion pack without taking the refund earlier. Because I just want to see how the game goes.

Now core game F2P ? So my 40 euro is gone to waste … only few restrictions for new accounts …

RIP Guild War … Economic will be down to hell ….

Behellagh.1468:

FAQ

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157

Can we get the list of items they will have access to on the TP?

Can’t say I’m happy about this, buy hay never mind, the loyal players always end up.paying more than the scrubs.

No its a joke.. APRIL FOOLS.. oh wait

You’ve had a few bad experiences and you judge the entire dungeon community by that standard? sigh