Guild Wars 2

At first I was a bit annoyed with the pricing, not outraged just annoyed enough to take a break from the game. But now I’ve come to terms with how I’m going to approach this whole thing. Simply I’m not going to pre-purchase the game at all.

This is because pre-purchasing only gives two things; Weekend Beta access and a title.

1. Beta Access: This is the only reason to pre-order because you get to experience Weekend Beta which is a whole lot better than the Portal beta event. Which sucked for me since it clashed with sleep and work (Australia based player who got 5 minutes of beta at 6:00am before leaving for the train). I had a bad experience with HoT beta so far, so although weekend events are so much better, I’m cool with skipping them because it means very little in the grand scheme if I eventually end up playing the final product. Besides whatever time you spend in the beta is eventually erased when your beta character is deleted.

2. Maguuma Trailblazer title: Way too regionally specific and actually doesn’t mean a whole lot. Especially since you can only equip one title and there are dozens of others that actually set you apart in terms of achievement.

So I’m going to do the following:

1. Wait for an actual release date and more details of content.
2. Continue to play but casually and without buying anymore gems.
3. Purchase the expansion when I feel the need to. There are still some base game things I need to do like level some characters to lv80 and do some world completion stuff. I can live with missing out on a couple of weeks of HoT since I did miss out on LS Season 1.

I mean who knows what other price shenanigans they’ll pull in the future with HoT, they might even do a small Holiday sale.

As things are right now, there isn’t a whole lot that has actually changed aside from the price inequity (which has been covered extensively). HoT hasn’t even gone live or close to it. I could frame this as a protest but it’s just me stepping back and looking at this objectively. The things I actually care about is what HoT will deliver, we need to ensure it is first worth the money. So I’ll wait and watch what unfolds.

Mordeus.1234:

At first I was a bit annoyed with the pricing, not outraged just annoyed enough to take a break from the game. But now I’ve come to terms with how I’m going to approach this whole thing. Simply I’m not going to pre-purchase the game at all.

This is because pre-purchasing only gives two things; Weekend Beta access and a title.

1. Beta Access: This is the only reason to pre-order because you get to experience Weekend Beta which is a whole lot better than the Portal beta event. Which sucked for me since it clashed with sleep and work (Australia based player who got 5 minutes of beta at 6:00am before leaving for the train). I had a bad experience with HoT beta so far, so although weekend events are so much better, I’m cool with skipping them because it means very little in the grand scheme if I eventually end up playing the final product. Besides whatever time you spend in the beta is eventually erased when your beta character is deleted.

2. Maguuma Trailblazer title: Way too regionally specific and actually doesn’t mean a whole lot. Especially since you can only equip one title and there are dozens of others that actually set you apart in terms of achievement.

So I’m going to do the following:

1. Wait for an actual release date and more details of content.
2. Continue to play but casually and without buying anymore gems.
3. Purchase the expansion when I feel the need to. There are still some base game things I need to do like level some characters to lv80 and do some world completion stuff. I can live with missing out on a couple of weeks of HoT since I did miss out on LS Season 1.

I mean who knows what other price shenanigans they’ll pull in the future with HoT, they might even do a small Holiday sale.

As things are right now, there isn’t a whole lot that has actually changed aside from the price inequity (which has been covered extensively). HoT hasn’t even gone live or close to it. I could frame this as a protest but it’s just me stepping back and looking at this objectively. The things I actually care about is what HoT will deliver, we need to ensure it is first worth the money. So I’ll wait and watch what unfolds.

In my opinion it doesn’t seem like the marketing team or the decision makers of the company made good choices. I’m currently dealing with something as a new player but I’ll put that aside and say.. what incentives do I have to actually pre-purchase? A title which really has no baring to me especially being new and not knowing the game that well. And then there’s Beta weekends.. which I would think they would want everyone to do. It’s a beta.. it’s to get feedback.. bug reports..etc. etc. In my opinion this should be allowed to the whole community. I’m surprised they don’t have a public test server. Does the company have whitelist testers from the community or no?

It would be nice to know also everything that is included. It probably would help many people decide already what they want to do.