Guild Wars 2

Tl;dr -

If you purchase the digital deluxe upgrade with a F2P account, do you officially own Core and have no more F2P restrictions? Or do you just get the mail items but still have restrictions?

Long version -

My friend says she is interested in trying GW2, but she doesn’t like the restrictions when I showed it to her.

Basically she says she wants to play, but without restrictions. So pretty much she wants to play Core even if she has to buy it. Then she’ll decide from there if she wants HoT or not.

She pretty much does not want to buy HoT no matter how much logic I throw at her even though I told her it comes with the Core game and if she buys Core and plays HoT. I also tried telling her that if she does this, she’s going to be paying like 75 dollars rather than just 50 dollars. She’s okay with that.

So I was wondering, if she signs up for the F2P version, then buys Core for 2000 gems (around 25 bucks), can she now play without restrictions?

I don’t think the core game is even available standalone?

She can try places like Amazon.com. They still sell the core version only.

Eddie Mo.7169:

Tl;dr -

If you purchase the digital deluxe upgrade with a F2P account, do you officially own Core and have no more F2P restrictions? Or do you just get the mail items but still have restrictions?

Long version -

My friend says she is interested in trying GW2, but she doesn’t like the restrictions when I showed it to her.

Basically she says she wants to play, but without restrictions. So pretty much she wants to play Core even if she has to buy it. Then she’ll decide from there if she wants HoT or not.

She pretty much does not want to buy HoT no matter how much logic I throw at her even though I told her it comes with the Core game and if she buys Core and plays HoT. I also tried telling her that if she does this, she’s going to be paying like 75 dollars rather than just 50 dollars. She’s okay with that.

So I was wondering, if she signs up for the F2P version, then buys Core for 2000 gems (around 25 bucks), can she now play without restrictions?

you need to buy the core game before you can get digital deluxe.

Thanks for the replies.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

She can try places like Amazon.com. They still sell the core version only.

Wow thanks, I didn’t even know physical copies of the game existed. Is it possible to get a digital?

Eddie Mo.7169:

Thanks for the replies.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

She can try places like Amazon.com. They still sell the core version only.

Wow thanks, I didn’t even know physical copies of the game existed. Is it possible to get a digital?

You download the client separately. Anyone can do that, with or without ownership of an account. Buying only gives you a key to make an account.