Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone!

As we all know, ANet doesn’t support the old editions of the game anymore. Therefore, if you have one, and your edition changes (due to participation in a beta test, for example), you’ll be “upgraded” to the equivalent newer edition, which usually goes hand in hand with one (or two) heroic chest(s).

Now, what I got from the announcement regarding that matter was, that it wasn’t really ANet’s intention as a reward for beta testers, but they roled with it. Good for them. But, I’d like to know, is there anything that would speak against just upgrading all of the old editions to the newer ones? It seems like it would be easier to manage for ANet, and all the old players would get a little something for staying with the game for so long.

Obviously, I am biased because I would very much enjoy a heroic chest. So, for the sake of being honest, I’ll mention that here.

So, what do you think? Thank you for your answers.

PS. I’ve tried searching for the topic, but the search function isn’t really that helpful. “Heroic chest” returns nothing and “Heroic” returns a load of stuff that doesn’t even contain the word heroic. Sorry if I missed something.

I think it would be nice for them to do that (I did already get my heroic chest thanks to being in the first beta stress). I don’t know if it would be easy for them to do it; the beta people were auto-flagged for it as a consequence of having to revert their account when the beta ended.

For searching, it’s been long acknowledged the forums are in poor shape. The contractors that made them are long gone and until all-new ones can be implemented this is what we have. The search feature is useless. I think there is a sticky on how to google search for desired posts, and it offers a better method than mine which is to google for “GW2 forums (keywords here).”

While it certainly would be a nice gesture, i fear having to do that to the thousands and thousands of ppl(if not millions) that still have the old editions is likely to cause their servers to overload, that is a LOT of info, so if they do it i am sure they have to be very careful at least how they do it