Guild Wars 2

I’m planning to buy an old copy of gw2 ( not expansion ) due to daily login reward.

It will count as an old standard account or as f2p ( no daily login reward ) plus heroic edition bonus, for instance?

Either. It will upgrade an f2p account and you’ll keep all the progress, chars and stuff or you can create a whole new fresh ’n clean account.

You’ll get a full core account.

Thank you Doc.

Last question: Have i to create a f2p account and then uppgrade it or can i create a new one directly?

Either you buy it and make a new account OR you make a f2p account and upgrade —- it is entirely up to you how you want to do it.

You can create a new one directly.

I don’t quite understand the logic of buying an old key. Why do this? You can find fairly cheap HoT keys from reputable vendors so what gives?

Yargesh.4965:

I don’t quite understand the logic of buying an old key. Why do this? You can find fairly cheap HoT keys from reputable vendors so what gives?

If the person is not planning to do HoT content on it, why should they pay even one dollar more?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Yargesh.4965:

I don’t quite understand the logic of buying an old key. Why do this? You can find fairly cheap HoT keys from reputable vendors so what gives?

If the person is not planning to do HoT content on it, why should they pay even one dollar more?

True enough but sometimes it feels more like being petty not to buy it than cost concerns.
Disclaimer: I have a non HoT account that I bought before the release of the expac. Not going to upgrade it, but if I was buying new I would just go for the HoT.

Non-Hot is available for almost half the discounted HoT price.
Haven’t looked for a couple of weeks but in the UK those prices were about £12 for core and £22 for HoT. That’s a significant saving, especially if you just want it for dailies and extra storage.

Yargesh.4965:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Yargesh.4965:

I don’t quite understand the logic of buying an old key. Why do this? You can find fairly cheap HoT keys from reputable vendors so what gives?

If the person is not planning to do HoT content on it, why should they pay even one dollar more?

True enough but sometimes it feels more like being petty not to buy it than cost concerns.
Disclaimer: I have a non HoT account that I bought before the release of the expac. Not going to upgrade it, but if I was buying new I would just go for the HoT.

When did being frugal with money become being petty? No wonder so many people get in debt with attitudes and thoughts like that. It’s not petty to wish to not pay more for something or to not pay for unneeded features. Do you go somewhere and insist on paying extra for things you don’t want or need? Of course not. If someone is buying an extra account to make ingame money then every dollar they spend takes it that much longer to break even.

I am not talking about being frugal, read my post. I am talking about the crap storm of people claiming not so long ago that the vicious evil ones destroyed their lives and how to only get the base game. Nothing more.

Yargesh.4965:

I am not talking about being frugal, read my post. I am talking about the crap storm of people claiming not so long ago that the vicious evil ones destroyed their lives and how to only get the base game. Nothing more.

In that case your post is irrelevant as the OP was only asking about buying a core account for login rewards and whether or not an core account would be a f2p account with no login rewards.

Having a regular day one account and upgrading to HoT, along with a purchased core game account, just before HoT, is really nice. It doesn’t take long to do the core account things that benefit my Hot account. But, having a guild is a must here.

Having 2 Hot accounts would make me want to advance both accounts equally and that’s simply too time consuming for me.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Yargesh.4965:

I am not talking about being frugal, read my post. I am talking about the crap storm of people claiming not so long ago that the vicious evil ones destroyed their lives and how to only get the base game. Nothing more.

In that case your post is irrelevant as the OP was only asking about buying a core account for login rewards and whether or not an core account would be a f2p account with no login rewards.

taking advice about relevancy from a person with the highest post rate on the game is something to think about.

Yargesh.4965:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Yargesh.4965:

I am not talking about being frugal, read my post. I am talking about the crap storm of people claiming not so long ago that the vicious evil ones destroyed their lives and how to only get the base game. Nothing more.

In that case your post is irrelevant as the OP was only asking about buying a core account for login rewards and whether or not an core account would be a f2p account with no login rewards.

taking advice about relevancy from a person with the highest post rate on the game is something to think about.

And that post is relevant to the discussion?

I rest my case.