Guild Wars 2

Just need some clarity.

When you purchase any of the HoT preorders, the base game comes free.

Does this mean I can upgrade my main account and use the base game I get as an alt?

Or do I preorder HoT and ignore the free base game? If this is the case, shouldn’t this be more clarified? Otherwise, isn’t this false advertising?

Just to put this out there, I’m okay with the pricing for HoT, it’s not that surprising. I’m a little concerned that the base upgrade doesn’t already include at lease one free character slot, unless we can merge the 5 slots from the free game into our main account.

Thanks again for the responses, there are just way too many threads at the moment, and I can’t seem to get a direct answer while I’m combing through it all.

If you’re not a new player you only get the expansion, basicaly an upgrade to your existing account. You don’t get a new account or a free character slot.

If you buy the expac, and are already an existing customer and want to use your current account. You’re paying for only HoT content, and cannot use the base game to make an alt.

If you buy the expac, and are a new customer. You’re paying for GW2 AND HoT content.

Being a new customer seems the better deal eh?

Jordo.5913:

If you buy the expac, and are already an existing customer and want to use your current account. You’re paying for only HoT content, and cannot use the base game to make an alt.

If you buy the expac, and are a new customer. You’re paying for GW2 AND HoT content.

Being a new customer seems the better deal eh?

Yeah, feels like I’m getting screwed for being a veteran player, even though I know I’m only paying for the upgrade. The way they have the features of each pack is so misleading, they have to put a disclaimer or something.

A disclaimer for the base/standard upgrade would also be nice. We know you’re hyped for the new profession, which represents 20% of the profession based features we’re adding, but if you buy the base/standard upgrade, you’ll either have to delete a pre-existing character (we created this brand new horizontal progression system so you wouldn’t ever need to delete your existing characters), have a empty character slot already or buy a new character slot. Otherwise, you won’t actually have access to 20% of the profession based features we’re adding

I say 20% because they’re adding 9 elite specializations and 1 new profession, so the revenant and its elite account for 20% of all the profession based content they’re adding with HoT.