Also, for those of you who are saying the core game inclusion is just a prepurchase bonus… its not. Anet has contradicted themselves immensely by stating this at all.
What they’ve actually repeated more is that the HoT will now be the base game. In other words, when it is released for the same price… it will include the core game because it will be the core game… so no its not just a new player bonus. If you own GW2 you still are technically rebuying a product to get a partial upgrade… which isn’t justifiable.
What is justifiable is an upgrade fee for… um… an upgrade… How do you people not understand this?
I don’t care if there is incentive to bring in new players, I don’t care if the core game will be HoT after release. That’s a good thing. I applaud the idea… but I’m not rebuying the game for an xpac… its kittened. Provide an upgrade package and I’ll throw my money at the screen.
How is this not reasonable? This solves ALL problems!
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How is this not reasonable? This solves ALL problems!*
It doesn’t solve the problem of their revenue stream, which this plan would reduce by 40% for the 3-4 million players most likely to purchase the xpac.
Or do you think that lowering the price for veterans by this much will increase the number of people pre-purchasing by a lot more than 40%? I don’t know myself, because I don’t have access to any of their sales data. I don’t doubt sales would increase; I only doubt that it would increase by enough to make up the difference in price.
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