Guild Wars 2

As the title states, a friend of mine is planning on buying Guild Wars 2. I showed him around on my account, a new player and an old player’s accounts are different so I told him that you won’t have these shining swords or footstep effects or stuff like that. And he asked me if he could buy it through g2a.com which is not in the official retailer list, but is also a well-known online marketplace. So I hereby ask you all if it is recommended or not to buy the game using that website?

It is not recommended to buy from any site not on the official list. Your friend will be very unhappy if he starts the game, gets some goodies, becomes attached to his characters, and then has the account banned because the serial key was bought with a stolen credit card.

Thanks for the reply Donari. I think you’re right as well.

Be aware that anet does disband acces to accounts using fraudulent keys.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3ik6o3/i_i_cant_believe_what_happened/cuh7tiu

HoT is on sale on Amazon (official retailer, which means no risk) for 20€ :
http://www.amazon.fr/Guild-Wars-2-heart-thorns/dp/B0140RS8RK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450381348&sr=8-1&keywords=heart+of+thorns

so why bother buying elsewhere ?