Guild Wars 2

Is the current HoT pricing making us subsidise new players ?

While many may say that the cost is for the new features we are going to enjoy….lets face it, the game makes a lot of money from gem sales too. We have been supporting the game development for years by buying gems. I don’t think we should have to pay for new players too….

We are not. It’s just that the product itself is dry and sold at too steep a price for the current state of the mmo market, with – yes – some subbed games but also f2p ones similar in quality and content with this game that’s now reaching the $100 cap.

Limited inventory and characters (fewer than the classes available) are features of a f2p game. Not giving a character slot with HoT is both mean (9 classes – 5 slots) and very not ANet-ish.

New players can get the whole thing for $40 for all I care. GW2 core will still give them a feint feeling of playing a beta with all the bugs still there. Veterans were rewarded their loyalty through LWS1 and 2 (before that became too good to be free anymore). Since less loyal people like myself don’t have any chance at the LWS1 content and the 2nd season had a price tag too.

It’s, as such, less of an issue of how the old people who survived the brutal years of ANet experimenting on your patience. But really the issue of the way they treat everyone like f2p clients, while waving their “no sub fee” banner… That’s confusing. Condi removal needed.