Guild Wars 2

You know, I actually might have bought the following pre-purchase offer:

-People, who pre-purchase receive a free character slot, people who buy the regular expansion at release will receive just the expansion.

This is important, because Arena.net is basically asking us to give them more than we’d normally do. For them, receiving the money in advance is a big deal. For many of us, giving them money in advance is a big deal. So why don’t we get any benefit for pre-purchasing on a bunch of promises and hardly any revealed content?
The benefit of a pre-purchase commitment can be quantified. It’s simple economics. The impact of pre-purchasing on our wallets can also be quantified. It just makes no sense that you get nothing for forking out cash in return for promises… Except for the base game, which many already have anyway and thus will only receive, if we don’t use the expansion for upgrading our existing account.