Guild Wars 2

Lets say you’re a new player, would the new player have to buy HoT for the gliders, maps, etc? Or does PoF include all contents that HoT has? It would suck if I would have to buy both expansions in order to get specific things.

I was wondering if PoF includes EVERYTHING from the previous.

You have to buy both.

Nihevil.8024:

You have to buy both.

Nooooooooooooooooo

The current business model has a few divisions. F2P gives you access to all of the content in Core, but heavily limits how you can use them (as anti-spam/anti-goldfarming). The purchase of any Expansion upgrades your account to Base [equivlent to launch when the game was Buy to Play], removes all restrictions on the account, and unlocks access to that specific Expansion’s content.

The confusion tends to come up due to Arena net constantly changing its business model, as their initial approach to continuous content failed to keep retention. So this is the 4th or 5th revision since 2013, when the executives got spooked.

Now that we’re at the 2nd expansion, we have an answer on how they’ve decided to do multiple expansions….. a modular approach. Unlike WoW, which has a linear level cap, GW2 doesn’t need previous content outside of Core in order to function. Granted the story gets disjointed…. but that happened anyway, when they shifted the player’s role in the story after the Scarlet Wars (which you’ll never get to play again outside of the few Fractals).

So until they change their minds again….. the Base game is included in all Expansions, and each expansion has to be picked up separately. But they do offer a discount if you buy multiple expansions as a package, and the price of the individual expansions will drop over time to some minimum. But as a result, you only need to buy a given expansion if you want; and not need them to level up toward new Content. If you’re willing to wait, you can get them on sale later, and not be worse off outside of lagging behind on collections.

While not as ballsy as what they were going for before; this is the most stable sales model they’ve had to do date, and is extremely predictable on what you do and don’t get in the arrangement…. which was a problem when HOT first launched.

You have to buy both to get everything. You can however play PoF without having HoT.

You can pay US$50 to get both, which is the same price that HoT alone cost when it launched.