Guild Wars 2

I’m still relatively new to guild wars but as i look up more and more stuff about the game i keep hearing how great the soundtrack is so i listened to it a bit on youtube and thought i might buy it but can only find a disk copy for sale on amazon for $249.99. I would like to know why the price for the soundtrack is so high and why it hasn’t been sold digitally.

Because the composer stopped selling it through his website.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Soundtrack

You can get some tracks, at no charge, on the ArenaNet Soundcloud site page.

Good luck.

We may never know the details of why Soule severed all connections with ANet (or vice versa). But as far as “stopped selling it” goes, that pretty much happened before it was released. Lots of pre-orders never got filled, nor did the customers get their money back.

I got my disk set many weeks late, I should have had it a month before launch and I got it in the game’s first week when I no longer had time to just sit and listen. But at least I did get it.

I don’t know what the copyright laws are on things like this where the artist isn’t ever going to sell the music so “piracy” wouldn’t actually cost him a dime. So I’m not offering to send digital copies to people. But my usual moral objections to anything close to digital piracy by others are firmly suspended in this particular case given how incredibly shady and nasty Soule’s company was in the whole thing. More power to you if you find someone who knows the rules well enough to find a way to legitimately get you copies.