Guild Wars 2

Much like some single player games with Demos, you can try out the demo to see if you like it for free and that can be your selling pitch. Since many of us are Vets of the GW series maybe people with existing accounts could have access to beta weekends already. Allows us to judge the 50 dollars while we play, and much like a demo, if we don’t like what we see then unfortunately that is a customer lost, but if you believe there is 50 dollars worth of content in the game, then maybe allowing Vet accounts access to play it hands on could really help your sales pitch.

There are people that have purchased GW2 more than once. Same goes for other games too. What HoT does is exactly that: having people rebuy GW2’s core which got assimilated in the HoT “expansion”. And as such, there’s only one problem:
If you’re trying to resell me the game, say so and let me think if I want to support you, don’t wrap it up in a nice “Dragon Box” HoT foil and call it “expansion”.

That, of course, applies to people who’ve been playing the game long enough. For everyone else who just purchased GW2 and can’t get a refund…well… probably the only viable option would be to deduct the cost of the GW2 from their pre-sale and upgrade their accounts (since they’re not refunding producs bought anywhere else other than their store).

All in all, the lack of transparency on the matter aligns well with their deceiving statements (and the FAQ isn’t their first kitten , but their MMO Manifesto)