Upgrade to the Deluxe Edition.
You will even get the complete Deluxe Edition, opposed to my pre-ordered one that didn’t came with a 18 slot bag or a armor skin.
I feel the same way. Pre-ordered the CE and have a limited banker to show for it. Oh yeah and that mini that sits in my collections tab.
Are you guys really upset that 1 year after launch people who buy the game now can get 10 exp boosters (which I think are useless either because most people have all lvl 80s right now, or because of the achivement chests which gave a ton of boosters).
An 18 slot bag that costs like 1.2g to buy/craft. Or if you ran fractals at all since Dec you could have had free 20 slot bags (plus the free 20 slot bag from southsun, and the free 15 slot bag from wintersday).
And the armor skin, which you could have bought if you wanted it since launch for 400 gems. And back at launch that would have cost you ~2g, when the rates were 1g=~240 gems. Or 4g in October when the rates were 1g=~120 gems.
Plus not to mention all of the free LS updates since launch (and their respective back items or minis or whatever which you got usually in <5 hours).
Shouldn’t you be happy more people buy the game, and that means more money for Anet, which means more continued support and more free updates in the future.
I’m annoyed a lot by this most recent patch, but giving people an incentive to buy the game a year after it came out isn’t one of them.
Really its not unreasonable. They both bought the exact same thing. Fact one person got something more out of it buying it later is a bit screwed up. If you expand what it grants those who got it before hand should be grandfathered in to it as they have it already.
I don’t know, I do kinda find it unreasonable. They may have bought the exact same thing, but the people who bought it first got to play for the past year, and experience all of the game plus any LS stuff released during that time for free (and with the most recent patches they had the option of a month long farm fest, and a year of gaining a good amount of karma from dailies/monthlies). I argue that whoever bought it first got more out of it than any current buyers.
I mean I bought the CE game, the sound track, and the strategy guide (as silly as it is I’d rather buy that than gems personally). In the past year I got ~1.4k hours out of gw2. I sure as hell got my money’s worth. And as I stated most of those rewards are worth nothing (you can maybe argue the $5 skin, but if someone wanted it why didn’t they buy it within the past year). To reiterate the arguments that flooded the forums when the Heroic edition was first announced.
When the price dropped X months after release, did we all ask for the difference? If a company selling a product has a special deal does it apply retroactive to all previous purchases (see comment below)? This is their way to keep sales up. And again, more money for them, means more free content for all of us. I mean look at any video game, you can buy it at launch for full price. A year later (or two) there may be a GOTY edition that includes all the previous DLC. People who got the game at launch don’t get the DLC for free (or get reimbursed if they bought it already) just because now new people can buy the GOTY edition which includes all the older DLC.
The main (and possibly only way) I can agree with you, is for people that very recently upgraded to the Delux Edition. Like if you upgraded within a month (though whatever number you pick is going to anger someone) you’d also get the Heroic bonuses. That is something that I agree with, though I never followed the issue enough to see if that was a reality. (For example Nintendo compensated the first 3DS owners when the price dropped after the first ~2 months or so, but if the price dropped again everyone who already has had one for over a year isn’t going to get an additional kickback).
Technically, yes, all of this stuff is free, and it could have just been given to all of us with the CE or DD editions. It would have been nice if we were grandfathered in, but I don’t think it was worth all the complaining that was done (not specifically calling you out here, but just in general). If you buy something and a year later it goes on sale or has some special promotion “THING NOW INCLUDES X” the people who bought it the first time around don’t get X, but they got to use the product for all of the previous amount of time.
