Guild Wars 2

Is this a violation of the terms of service at all?
Right now it seems if I buy another copy of Path of Fire, it’ll be accredited to an account that already has it. (mine) Is there any way I can send the serial code to someone who is not exactly the richest and would not be able to play Path of Fire otherwise?

It is not a violation as long as the code is unused.

To gift buy it from the web store or other authorized retailer (when available) and once you get the game key provide it to your friend. Just don’t register it and don’t buy it through the in game store as the in game store automatically adds it to your account if you don’t have it already. Of course if you already have PoF on your account the in game store won’t be an option anyway.

I was able to do that with HoT. It should be fine. I believe you’ll need to order from the website (or authorized retailer) rather than via the in-game Gem Store. That gets you a code to apply to an account by copy pasting it in. So long as the code isn’t used by anyone else before your friend does, it should work. (I cannot verify that PoF works by sending you a code to apply because the Java errors got me to order via the Gem Store interface and that had it go straight onto my account).

Each time I gifted HoT I made sure I was in direct communication with the recipient and had them confirm first that they got the code and second that they successfully applied it to their account. I did not want any problems caused by delay or carelessness in handling the code.

Thank you Trogdor. You were right. I had assumed that it worked a different way than it had with previous iterations. And well, it doesn’t! My mistake.

Donari.5237:

I was able to do that with HoT. It should be fine. I believe you’ll need to order from the website (or authorized retailer) rather than via the in-game Gem Store. That gets you a code to apply to an account by copy pasting it in. So long as the code isn’t used by anyone else before your friend does, it should work. (I cannot verify that PoF works by sending you a code to apply because the Java errors got me to order via the Gem Store interface and that had it go straight onto my account).

Each time I gifted HoT I made sure I was in direct communication with the recipient and had them confirm first that they got the code and second that they successfully applied it to their account. I did not want any problems caused by delay or carelessness in handling the code.

That is actually what I did with HoT as well. I had made incorrect assumptions about the web store this time. Thank you for the feedback