Guild Wars 2

I see a lot of complaining about the lack of additional character slots, and the fact that the base game is going to be included which “screws over” the current player base. I’m going to avoid those topics.

I’ve also seen people defend it saying it’s to include newer gamers and we should “welcome in more, fresh players” as well as referencing previous expansions/standalone/dlc packs that have come out for previous MMOs.

All I’ll say is, when Gw: Factions game out, it literally DOUBLED the size of the game. When Nightfall came out, it added yet another continent (just like factions did), therefore DOUBLING the ORIGINAL Prophesy game. When Eye of of the North came out and it did NOT double the scope of the original game (though it did come pretty close), guess what happened? Anet did not price it as highly as they would a standalone game.

Under this logic, unless HoT literally doubles most of it (land mass, end game content, dungeons, new skills/weapon sets, titles, achievements, pvp battle maps and modes, etc), then I don’t see how they can justify charging the same amount as their base game. Eye of the North wasn’t the same price as a full Gw campaign and neither should this “expansion” be.

It’s not like were getting a brand new continent or map expansion that is the same size as the one that came with the launch of the game. It adds maybe 30% of the total map size. It adds one class/profession, and a bunch of sub classes that won’t have a tremendous impact on gameplay. And it includes a bunch of features that were promised to the ORIGINAL game. This expansion should cost 1/3 of what it does and I don’t care what anybody says, that’s the truth in my opinion.

I got eye of the north for 99 cents 3 months after it came out at target. Wait to buy this expansion, and it too will come down. Obviously I got an obscenely good deal that will not happen with this. All I ask of this community is to use your money to show your opinion. Calling someone a child because they feel they should get more for their money, or a fool for buying something without a release date doesn’t help.
Just buy it or don’t. If you are worried that this will be low content and will not come out too fast, or will be full of stuff that isn’t that compelling , don’t buy it. Anet will get the message that way. If you want to buy it based on what you know, do it and they will use this money to try to market to you. Working Capitalism is when people buy the best product for the lowest price. No one here is wrong so lets be nice.

LukeBu.5381:

I got eye of the north for 99 cents 3 months after it came out at target. Wait to buy this expansion, and it too will come down. Obviously I got an obscenely good deal that will not happen with this. All I ask of this community is to use your money to show your opinion. Calling someone a child because they feel they should get more for their money, or a fool for buying something without a release date doesn’t help.
Just buy it or don’t. If you are worried that this will be low content and will not come out too fast, or will be full of stuff that isn’t that compelling , don’t buy it. Anet will get the message that way. If you want to buy it based on what you know, do it and they will use this money to try to market to you. Working Capitalism is when people buy the best product for the lowest price. No one here is wrong so lets be nice.

Well, currently, I am refusing to buy this. Unless they announce that this expansion is just as big as the original game, I won’t be paying the original price for it. It should cost $15 based on what I’ve seen, because it only seems to be 1/3 the size of the original Gw2.

Factions and Nightfall gave us 2 professions each EotN gave us 0 HoT gives us 1 so it should be more than EotN but less than the other 2 on this point.

From what we’ve learned so far the total land mass will be less but the content density should be about equal to EotN therefore it should be equal to EotN on this point.

All give personal story I’d imagine this will be comparable to the other parts of the story and therefore moot.

Factions gave us high end pvp content (JQ,FA,AB,) Nightfall gave us high end pve content (DoM) EotN gave us dungeons and minigames HoT gives us pve pvp and wvw updates along with some minigame type things; one could argue WvW and PVP are upgrades to the base game but they are investments towards the HoT revenue and can be counted as part of the package so on this point it should be more than the campaigns or EotN.

Factions and Nightfall each gave us 1 character slot for their 4 professions EotN had no professions or character slots.

In conclusion HoT should be more than EotN less than the Campaigns and give us half a character slot.

All maths should be based on release prices only.