Guild Wars 2

Figured I’d bring this up, as I don’t recall seeing it posted elsewhere and it really needs raising.

Anet, why lock guild-members out from using functions they can contribute materials towards, just because they don’t have the expansion? This isn’t even just the new functions, I’m talking about guild buffs that before HoT came out, everyone in the guild was able to benefit from.

Now only HoT owners can access them.

Let’s look at the Guild Arena. Yes, it’s new, but it takes a lot of mats and effort to get it… Yet half the people in my guild can’t use it, and are forced to sit back and watch all the others have fun in it because the NPCs to enter it refuse to talk to them. The whole guild worked together to get that arena, and a lot of other upgrades, yet those who can’t afford the expansion are being punished for not having it.

So please, Anet, consider this. Only lock out the ability to purchase/access HoT only items/functions. Things like scribe, or the map currencies that can be traded for using Guild Commendations. Don’t stop players who don’t have HoT, from being able to access the things they had before the expac launched. And don’t stop players from having fun with their friends in the arena.

This game is supposed to be about community and guilds, yet this is something that is splitting guilds right down the middle.

I just had a friend quit the guild and gw2 because the PvP arena he contributed a lot to also is for HoT players only (among a lot of other guold stuff). He even bought the original game, but can’t afford HoT now. He paid once for the game, but now can’t use guild functions that were available to him before Hot.

Please reconsider this at least for the people that bought the initial game.

i agree with what was written above

i think you should consider enabling guild hall unlocks like the arena atleast to people that have bought initial game, locking them out of things like that makes no sense…
cause ye you can look at us have fun in there but no you can’t join….not really fun…..

The search function sucks, but this conversation has been had in a large number of threads already.

This should really be merged with an existing hread (and perhaps one day anet can get someone to update their forum software)