Retail copy
Anet no longer directly sell GW2 core from their site. Only available from other store. No way for Anet to know if person pay full price same as HoT for core game from other store to give the person HoT. Would not work. Can find core game for less than HoT many places. People would take advantage and buy core game cheap then say to Anet I pay same price as HoT give me expansion.
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(edited by Qugi.2653)
then perhaps providing a receipt would be required for the upgrade … but even still most retailers have a no return policy on online games due to the one time use nature.
is there nothing they can do to tell retailers to stop selling the core then? especially since it is now technically free.