Guild Wars 2

All this whine because of one short sentence “contains core game”.
You know this is common in MMORPG industry? (SOE, Blizzard do the same – even more they give a newcomer 30 free days and old accounts get nada…)
Would you be happy if someone who wants to buy a game would have to buy base game & expansion?

Simply:
- current players are buying an expansion
- new players get bonus of not having to buy original game in sale for $1.

You can whine about $50 for expansion being too expensive – well for me it is normal price of expansion of AAA title.
I will probably go for $100 package which is actually quite cheap when you count in price of gems&slot in the package.

Well I am probably not kitten as many of whiners here and simply looking forward for great fun in the game which is sooooo cheap in terms of time to $ ratio…. $100 every 2 years for countless hours of fun I have???

Shut up and take my money!

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If people do the math for the object contained in the assorted packages, they’d see they are getting what they are paying for (plus a couple extra nicetries, like access to all future open betas).

Personally I’m looking at 1 deluxe, and 1 standard Maybe 2 deluxe, depends on if the hubby wants the shinies.

Ryouzanpaku.1273:

All this whine because of one short sentence “contains core game”.
You know this is common in MMORPG industry? (SOE, Blizzard do the same – even more they give a newcomer 30 free days and old accounts get nada…)
Would you be happy if someone who wants to buy a game would have to buy base game & expansion?

Simply:
- current players are buying an expansion
- new players get bonus of not having to buy original game in sale for $1.

You can whine about $50 for expansion being too expensive – well for me it is normal price of expansion of AAA title.
I will probably go for $100 package which is actually quite cheap when you count in price of gems&slot in the package.

Well I am probably not kitten as many of whiners here and simply looking forward for great fun in the game which is sooooo cheap in terms of time to $ ratio…. $100 every 2 years for countless hours of fun I have???

Shut up and take my money!

Do y
ou like spend money for someone that you already payed? Well, good for you. I’m supporting this game since 3 years (first year was a beta by the way) and that’s the result? No thx. Arenanet Marketing Team < Mordemoth

What’s funny (ho ho, not ha ha) is that – every single argument they’ve made to the contrary aside – probably 90% of these whiners would shut up if Anet just GAVE them a free character slot – to which they apparently feel entitled to for their “loyalty” …as if years of no-subscription game time and birthday/anniversary/login rewards never happened.

It would be funny (ha ha) if it wasn’t so sad.

Whiners gonna whine. And at the end they will still buy it. 45euro is not a biggy for me as i bought original over 2.5years ago.

Look at WoW – Expansion there is like 35-40 PLUS monthly subscription.

Diablo 3s xpac was $40 bucks at release…id say that is more comparable to what GW2s xpac should be considering the amount of content..

Now the full details of HoT is not released but I have my hopes and doubts at the same time…Of course anet just HAD to announce this ridiculuous price tag before telling the buyers what all would be even included in the xpac…that just sounds stupid.

No release date or window, no full details of what content will be in the xpac… but they have their priorities straight by making sure they rip off as many people as they can first!

I’ve always been a “wait and see” kind of person. This attitude has served me well over the years (same with “I’ll believe it when I see it”). I’ve always been rather patient, and understand that things change and/or become more clear over time.

That being said, recent events reminds me of Micorsoft’s Xbox One reveal and the rage that ensued.

I can’t count myself as a hater but honestly they could have done something like “if you already own an account you will be granted a new character slot”. At least it makes a difference between those who got the game before the xpac.

The way it is done is more that not already playing the game is the best deal… not the best way to thank your player base.

Coming from an iOS Pay2Win Freemium MMO, to me GW2 is incredibly “cheap”. Even with my occasional gem purchases i am spending way less after breaking the Freemium addiction. To me the Ultimate edition with the gems and char slot is fine. I would be buying gems at some point in the next 6 months anyway.

As the OP said the Time to $ spent ratio is very very good.

Ryouzanpaku.1273:

You can whine about $50 for expansion being too expensive – well for me it is normal price of expansion of AAA title.

Yes, but is this the expansion of an AAA title?

I mean, so far, what do we know about this expansion? too little….

I’m not hating because of the “free game included” (wich essentialy isen’t true)

I’m hating because the price tag doesnt justify the content we will get. at least not now.

If they informed their players a bit more, told us what would come with the expansion from A to Z it would probably have offered much less rage then we see now.

I’m hating because after playing in & out for 3 years they still seem to resort to desperate measures for trying to keep their game alive, neglecting ALL DECENT SUGGESTIONS GIVEN BY VETERAN PLAYERS TO KEEP THE GAME SOMEWHAT INTRESTING ALONG THE WAY.

I’m hating because they simply ignored all our warnings and continue to do so.

But no worries. I’m not forced to pay for it. I will gladly step aside and make room for new players if thats what they prefer

I wonder why people try to defend these ridicoulus price with comparisons to other non anet games like wow… If you love these kind of pricing, then play wow!

You have to compare anet’s prices with anet’s products. There you have gw1 and gw2. One gw1 expansion had way more content then HoT and the price was 30$. Gw2’s price at release was 59$ and 79$ for digital deluxe.

Basically gw2 veterans now have to pay for an expansion that includes close to no content (remember most of the changes are not HoT changes, it are gw2 core usual update changes which are paid by the gemshop!) but the veterans have to pay the same price again for a 3 year old game they already bought.

The conclusion is easy, currently anet is ripping off their loyal (some 10 years+) customers and is sadly defended by new customers (and some kids that changed from other games to gw2 and will leave again after some month/years).