Guild Wars 2

So the Heart of Thorns Expansion, buying it gives new players the core game for free, but if you are already playing it and buy it, basically you don’t get the core game for free.

Basically, people already playing the game pay the same as a new player but get less for their money?

Have I got that correct? If so….what? Being a veteran is penalized now?…

Surely that isn’t true right? We are going to get like gems or something as compensation for having already been playing and having bought the core game on release and having supported the game all this time till now?

I doubt it. The expansion is $50 for old and new players alike.

Leo.6817:

So the Heart of Thorns Expansion, buying it gives new players the core game for free, but if you are already playing it and buy it, basically you don’t get the core game for free.

Basically, people already playing the game pay the same as a new player but get less for their money?

Have I got that correct? If so….what? Being a veteran is penalized now?…

Surely that isn’t true right? We are going to get like gems or something as compensation for having already been playing and having bought the core game on release and having supported the game all this time till now?

What you get is the past ~3 years of playtime, and if you logged in, the living story season 2 all of it.
All the other updates you would have gotten for free anyways even if you join the game now for the first time.
So you are actually 3 years ahead of a new player, thats about what you get for allready being a veteran player.
I dont mind, I got the Deluxe game and I am happy.
Over and out.

ArenaNet made the mistake of not dumbing it down. They should remove the “(includes Guild Wars 2 core game)” part and make a new $59.99 edition for that.

Manifibel.8420:

Leo.6817:

So the Heart of Thorns Expansion, buying it gives new players the core game for free, but if you are already playing it and buy it, basically you don’t get the core game for free.

Basically, people already playing the game pay the same as a new player but get less for their money?

Have I got that correct? If so….what? Being a veteran is penalized now?…

Surely that isn’t true right? We are going to get like gems or something as compensation for having already been playing and having bought the core game on release and having supported the game all this time till now?

What you get is the past ~3 years of playtime, and if you logged in, the living story season 2 all of it.
All the other updates you would have gotten for free anyways even if you join the game now for the first time.
So you are actually 3 years ahead of a new player, thats about what you get for allready being a veteran player.
I dont mind, I got the Deluxe game and I am happy.
Over and out.

Well uhm, sorry but no, not really, first of all I haven’t logged in every single day over the last few years, I played the game a lot right up to the Karka release since then have been on sporadically, over all that time I’ve spent plenty of money on gems and of course supported the release by buying the gem.

I didn’t get to do the whole Scarlet Living World story, and when I came back I actually had to buy the living story pack for season 2, so how exactly am I ‘ahead’ of a new player who can just do the exact same things as me?

Your putting a price on the time I spent being able to log on or not on the game? Hello? This is basically saying the game should have a subscription cost.

If all I get for being an original supported of the game is; “You were able to log on before Heart of Thorns” that seems like a pretty lousy ‘gift’ I’d have rather saved my money and joined with Heart of Thorns and got the best value even if it meant starting at lvl 1 with the expansion release.