Remember when GW1 came out?
I do, I beta tested it back in the day. I did not buy it for $39, It was the complete game you got 4 character slots. and 6 classes.
Remember when GW Factions came out?
I went out and happily plunked down my $39 for it, It also was a complete game, you did not need the original Guild wars to play it. While it was built on the same engine, and existed in the same universe, it was a separate and completely independent game.
It came with 4 character slots, and 8 classes, and took us to Cantha.
Remember when GW Nightfall came out?
I also payed $39 for this. It also was a complete game, you did not need the original Guild wars to play it. While it was built on the same engine, and existed in the same universe, it was a separate and completely independent game.
It came with 4 character slots, and 8 classes, and took us to Elona.
Now with both of the “Expansions” being they were not really an expansion but a full game, if you already had an account, the ANET would join the 2 games, in that you could share storage but the characters could not travel between the two. ANET also gave you 2 character slots out of the 4 to link the account.
Remember When Eye of the North came out?
Now this was truly an expansion, you had to have one of the three previous versions to play it, and you got to take your characters to the North, It introduced us to the Asura, and the Norn. It also allowed your characters to visit the other lands, providing you had that game. It was available buy itself for typically $29 at release and dropped in price. After it was officially announced that ANET was working on GW2 you could get EotN with one of the core (GW,Factions, or Nightfall) for $29-$39
Now I purchased it in an Ultimate pack, it came with the Core GW, Factions, Nightfall, and Eotn and I payed all of $19 And because I was adding the Core GW I got 2 more character slots for a total of 8.
Now, I see all sorts of posts about rage over HoT. And I look at what is offered, and I remember. In fact, I bet a lot of Veterans who played GW1 remember even if they don’t articulate it. I understand the rage, because it seems ANET has forgotten us Veterans.
Now people talk about price, some for some against. In truth its only about price to a few. Its about being forgot about. And for many of us long term Guild Wars vets, HoT makes us feel like the older dog( sorry to those that are offended by being called a dog in this analogy) whose boy keeps playing the neighbors puppies. He’s interested in only the new and shiny, While we want to play with the new and shiny too, but also get the love we’ve been getting, before those yappity puppies came along.