Thief 80 | Elementalist 80 | Mesmer 80 | Necromancer 80 | Revenant TBA
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More information: https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157-Account-types-Free-Core-HoT & https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/play-for-free-today/
Otherwise the market will be completely destroyed by the abundance of laurels flooding the game.
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ROFL……………..
/sad
This has just completely killed the economy..
So what, you are a new player, you do a few dungeons and now you are a expert at the game? Give it a break, you probally tried to do AC with your lv35 and the people weren’t so happy with you there, I personnaly kick anyone below lv80, when forming parties, then after wards tell them that it was because they are to low lv and how the stats work in gw2.
Any word on the rumored restrictions on free accounts?
brb making my 10 Laural alt accounts.
This is great for the game. They can control it. All of the new content is still paid for, and players will spike. This will bolster the PVP community and brind a LOT of new players. This is a kittening fantastic idea…
Everyone in twitch chat is QQing lol
GG …………….
I cant watch the Twitch stream because I dont install Flash.
RIP gw2
also no price drop for users who already own GW2. bullcrap
and its starting TODAY
Just confirmed from the pres himself
“as soon as we are done here , GW2 will be available to be downloaded from the website”
RIP everything
im already lubing up for all the new gold sellers…
ok good they are controlling the free accounts with chat and slots
Trading post is allowed to free players?!?!?!?!?!!?
Free accounts get:
Fewer bank and bag slots
Limited use of map and whisper chat
Can use the TP but can’t mail items to other players
Have to play to level 60 before you can enter wvw
Time to make 10k accounts for 100k laurels a week. thats atleast 50k gold in a week for logging in. Store all materials in a guild bank and get it on your main account.
F2P, how low can you go
RIP
/15 Charr
My mouth just dropped.. I don’t know what to say..
1. So.. down the line when we get to expansion 2 and 3… does HoT become free to the newer players after that??
And more importantly,
2. How does this now affect the economy??
Arenanet, this A HUGE smack to the face to every loyal GW2 player since day one, heck even GW1… nothing to compensate to veteran players besides mediocre birthday presents and…… “A” outfit?? Really? Is this what all my money has earned over this years?
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It the trading post stuff I am a little worried about and the daily login rewards
This. 100×. Daily Rewards for free accounts will wreck the economy.
Honestly, I’d restrict F2P accounts form WvW completely.
Rip economy, rip ‘friendly community’
I disagree. I go to other games and quickly grow irritated at how immature and obnoxious their forums are.
I am not saying GW2’s community is perfect or even “The Friendliest” but do think it is one of the friendliest.
Free accounts get:
Fewer bank and bag slots
Limited use of map and whisper chat
Can use the TP but can’t mail items to other players
Have to play to level 60 before you can enter wvw
yea but economy is already massively screwed and it just got worse with this annoucnement
The economy is about to get litered with bots getting on all those nodes.
Get ready for a MASSIVE increase in supply for easy gathering mats
Prices will be dropping like crazy for things involve those easily farmed mats
I’d be VERY surprised if they do. Anet have done a good job restricting trial accounts in the past.
Point confirmed.
I agree to this too. I do not mind people who own a couple accounts to do this, because they are supporting the game, but free player getting them, does not seem fair, as it hurt the trading post in little under a month.
I spent my money on this game, started getting hyped for the expansion.
Now this game is going to be way more toxic, a lot of bots, spammers.
I bet the things he said wouldn’t make it less worse, and even if it is I can only see the game going downhill from there.
I wish it wouldn’t.
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“METAZERK NO NECRO NO RANGER”
This game is dead. It is SO incredibly dead.
Don’t worry, the economy will be ok. We put a lot of effort into keeping it protected.
100% agree, it will absolutely crush the economy. They shouldn’t be allowed to use map chat, mail people, use the TP, and a whole host of other stuff.
I fail to see why they should restrict new players laurels, they can give new players some very useful items for getting in the game, like the crafting packs, and the boosters, and the harvesting gear etc.
And the game is about to go to hell. Starting zones will be troll central.
Well, you were good while you lasted.
Gw2 on Console – confirmed.
/sad2
RIP GW2…
RIP Economy
RIP community
RIP game
Oh well it was fun while it lasted.
still a MASSIVE slap to the face to every GW2 player thats been around for three years. so when expansion two comes out am i still going to have to pay the full price when HoT goes free? utter crap
Don’t worry, the economy will be ok. We put a lot of effort into keeping it protected.
Can we get some more information on this instead of just “we put a lot of effort into it”?
Are F2P Accounts able to get laurels? If they are, that needs to be removed.
yeah awesome
account a sold out a cheap product from tp and add a cheap item for much money his new f2p account can buy to transfer the gold to the main acc
gg anet
well done
Don’t worry, the economy will be ok. john you are the best ;D
RIP WvW
/15char
Don’t worry, the economy will be ok. We put a lot of effort into keeping it protected.
can you talk a bit about what f2p players will be restricted to in trading on the TP?
because things that are easily farmed like nodes and other materials will FLOOD the market , creating very high supply..
Plus bots.
RIP WvW
/15char
Free accounts can’t enter WvW until level 60.
Free accounts can’t mail kitten. Think.
Just ask me to help you. look for us with [TTCC] on NA megaserver in game. I’m going to make it my mission to grab every new player in the game starting today!
All PVP is toxic
Wow, thats an very old one, Substatic, get with times
Don’t worry, the economy will be ok. We put a lot of effort into keeping it protected.
Three years of more and more rewards ever creeping away from any casual players range of vision, let alone grasp, would say otherwise. The economy isn’t fine now, how is it going to improve with craptons of players with no monetary consequences for what they do with their accounts?
As for this announcement. What? They just said:
“We stand by Buy to Play as the best monetization model for players and developers.” And then in the next breath “Which is why we’re going free to play.”
I think I’m done, I love this game but its turning in to yet another Nexon scam, and I’ve stuck around like a trusting fool one too many times through Nexons business decisions over games I absolutely loved. I am sick of emotionally investing myself in to a world, a story, and characters, and then getting my heart ripped so some old fat suit can have even more spending cash he’s never going to use. We were just bald faced lied to, millions of players were just cheated out of anywhere from 60 to 10 dollars and years or months of gameplay, and we got, as compensation, an outfit.
Can’t any company in this industry maintain its business and artistic integrity? This crap happens so much these days I am seriously on the cusp of giving up on video games period. Back to chapter books and pen & paper RPGs at this point, their creators don’t rip out your beating heart to keep investors happy.
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Don’t worry, the economy will be ok. We put a lot of effort into keeping it protected.
OK….Tell us in detail then.
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