Guild Wars 2

How long do we have to pre-purchase the new expansion? Can you do it just any time before the launch?

Presumably you can. Anet hasn’t given any deadline.

But I won’t recommend leaving it too late… servers tend to go funny when expansions go live.

Yes. It will run right up until the game launches on the 22nd.

But I strongly recommend buying before the 21st at the latest. Depending on where you are in the world and when exactly the expansion goes live the pre-purchase window could end early, or late.

If I remember correctly for HoT it was midnight on the release day, but in Pacific Time (since that’s Anet’s time zone) so we had people in Australia complaining that it was a day late and people in the Americas complaining that they’d miss almost the entire first day because they’d be asleep and then at work/school.

onevstheworld.2419:

Presumably you can. Anet hasn’t given any deadline.

But I won’t recommend leaving it too late… servers tend to go funny when expansions go live.

Danikat.8537:

Yes. It will run right up until the game launches on the 22nd.

But I strongly recommend buying before the 21st at the latest. Depending on where you are in the world and when exactly the expansion goes live the pre-purchase window could end early, or late.

If I remember correctly for HoT it was midnight on the release day, but in Pacific Time (since that’s Anet’s time zone) so we had people in Australia complaining that it was a day late and people in the Americas complaining that they’d miss almost the entire first day because they’d be asleep and then at work/school.

Thank you both!

onevstheworld.2419:

Presumably you can. Anet hasn’t given any deadline.

But I won’t recommend leaving it too late… servers tend to go funny when expansions go live.

Actually they gave the deadline as soon as the purchase page was up “Pre-purchase bonuses end 9/22/2017” is right under the “BUY NOW” button that pops up on the right side of the screen.