The current versions are really bad, especially the standard edition for $50. What you get is HoT and the core game (they say core game is included for free, but we all know that is bullkitten. They only want to manipulate the price and charge us more.)
The first problem here is that you don’t get a character slot and the second problem is that you pay too much for less content than the core game and the third is that you get the core game that you don’t need if you already have it, and the fourth is that you only get one code for both the expansion and the core game. So you can’t give away the core game and use the expansion for yourself.
When I first saw the prices I thought like woah ok, and when I saw what was included in the versions I thought it was a joke. Is this really ArenaNet? The same people who made gw1? Nope.