about the veteran player thing
so veteran players only get a free character slot when buying heart of horns right?
basically have to pay for an entire new game but really only getting a dlc, and older players get a free character slot, correct?
Pretty sure that the offer for the ‘free character slot’ ended months ago.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/pre-purchase-community-address/
July 31st, 2015
so veteran players only get a free character slot when buying heart of horns right?
basically have to pay for an entire new game but really only getting a dlc, and older players get a free character slot, correct?
Pretty sure that the offer for the ‘free character slot’ ended months ago.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/pre-purchase-community-address/
July 31st, 2015
that’s the deadline for the refund.
The one char slot offer for veteran runs until the game launches
“who upgrade their account by prepurchasing and registering any Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns edition before Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns‘ launch, we will add one additional character slot to your Guild Wars 2 account.”
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thanks, couldnt find out for sure what was what
basically have to pay for an entire new game but really only getting a dlc
In terms of DLC, what you’re getting is more like a season pass. The living world has always been ArenaNet’s goal, so although HoT may look small at first, it will be expanded on over the following years. Keep in mind that moving forward, HoT will be required to access future new content.
How they end up marketing the future of the living story, you can only guess. Instead of giving it away for free for logging in, I’m guessing they’ll simply link it to the purchase of HoT as if it were a season pass. ArenaNet’s new business model is to bundle all prior expansions for free. The trick is, if they sell the living story separately like that, the game will retain its original price if you want the full package.
What you’re getting is a very updated version of the game. Anet is lousy at advertising their own product.
In most games, when an expansion comes out, you generally get more content. But Anet is giving us entirely new systems and those systems are the ground work for future expansions. This expansion, in the surface, may not look like much content-wise, but the changes it’s bringing in change this game significantly.
You may or may not think that’s worth it, but I think it is.
Why has this happened? Because this game dared to stray from what other games are doing. It tried to find some new path for MMOs and got some things wrong and some things right. There’s a price to be in the forefront of that sort of experiment. You don’t always get it right the first time.
One of the main issues, for example, that people have had is the lack of max level progression. So Anet added masteries. But it’s not just a closed system. It’s a system that can keep on growing, pretty much as long as the game exists.
I’m probably more excited about the mastery system than I am about anything else in the expansion. Calling a major game reboot a “dlc”, in my mind anyway, undermines what the expansion is really about.
Well we have no idea on the quantity of content. We speculate on what anet told us and what we datamined, but we really have no idea on the scale of the content and there is still stuff to be announced.
Anet is lousy at advertised, but they want to keep the expansion as fresh as possible when it come out. Will it be small or big in term of quantity of content. We have no idea.
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You missed the point Vayne was trying to make. The majority of this expansion isn’t about the content, it’s about the systems they had to build to make this expansion possible.
Large examples are the mastery system and the specialization system, both of which can be expanded upon indefinitely.
Smaller behind the scenes changes are also present, such as updating the game engine to allow new combat mechanics like the free camera, cascade effects, and mobile combo fields. (FYI when I say small, I mean less noticeable, not necessarily less work. It wouldn’t surprise me if the combat system overhaul took more work than the mastery system)
In short, maps and skills aren’t the only “content” we are getting.