Guild Wars 2

I’ve been a loyal customer to Arena Net since 2005 and I have never once felt that you have charged unfair prices for the content provided. However with the recent pre-purchase announcement, I have been severely upset with how you intent on conducting your purchasing models.

Heart of Thorns, as a 50 dollar game, is fine in my opinion considering everything you promise in it. This is despite the fact that we have gotten no new information on the amounts of areas in the game, or the challenging content promised. We’re still missing 6 out of the 9 specializations that will be included. Despite all that I still trust in you that this game is worth the 50 you are charging because I have seen the history of quality game design you have.

But what is absolutely disgraceful is not including an extra character slot in the base purchase of this game. One of the few features we do know about is a new class. A new class is the major selling point in ANY expansion in ANY franchise. But now for us veteran players, one of the exclusive features of this expansion is now locked behind another pay window. It’s either drop another 10 dollars into the game to buy a slot, fork over a large amount of in-game gold, or delete one of our previous characters. Is that really the message you want to be spending? “Please pay $50 on our expansion and another $10 to play the new included class!”

This is absolutely insulting to your player base ArenaNet. I will not be purchasing Heart of Thorns until either the base purchase includes the expansion slot it should so that we can enjoy ALL of the content for the full retail price or the price is reduced to the point where dropping another 10 dollars doesn’t seem like a pathetic money grab.

I have never been so disappointed in this company as I am today. :\

Yep. They could even have made the price $55 – if it included a slot. Its not so much the price as its how it feels being asked to bender over..

Wait, you mean the regular edition of HoT doesn’t have a new character slot AT ALL? That’s crazy. Thinking back to the days of the first Guild Wars — and yes, I was onboard Day 1 plus bought all the expansion packs — each EP included an additional character slot or two.

I just…. I can’t even….

Totally agree, this is not about money but manner

I think it was very deceitful to first say HoT needs the core game, then have sales for a few months, and then change it so you get the game essentially for free. So many people bought it because they were preparing for HoT. Now they got slapped in the face.

As a veteran player if I want to experience the Revenant class I would have to delete one of my level 80 chars, or buy a char slot. Not only do I have less to gain from the 50$ purchase, I also have to pay extra to get access to the whole thing.

And this right here is why people are kittened off. None of that other nonsense everybody else is claiming or the fanboys are throwing around to misdirect the anger. But all of the things mentioned in this topic so far, from the OP down to the guy above me.

1. No character slot in an expansion with a new class.
2. Shady advertisement and flat out lies on the HoT FAQ to sell copies of a game they were going to give away within months.
3. Still missing tons of information on what is in the expansion.

I’d say the whole gimping Standard to make deluxe and ultimate look better but thats tied in with the character slot so I’ll leave it at that.