Guild Wars 2

Unlike other bundles in the Gem Store where the price is lowered to only cover new items for the account, Knight of the Grove remains the same price even if you already have the glider, mail carrier, and outfit unlocked even though those are account wide unlocks that cannot be applied a second time.

Thus there is a severe overcharge if one wants the new backpack, enough to either dissuade buying altogether or to cause Support to have to deal with a lot of refund requests if/when the backpack becomes available to independently purchase.

Donari: this might be worth contacting support in advance. It’s possible a supervisor might be able to advise you as to how to proceed, if you don’t want to wait for an update that adjusts this.

Oh, I haven’t spent a dime on it. Either it’s a bug and they’ll fix it in time to get more money from people, or it’s a marketing choice they made. Were this a skin I was drooling for, I might very well see if I could get Support involved to find a way to provide it at a fair price. However, it’s more a “cool, works for Sylvari, I might use it some time despite my general preference for letting my armor show” sort of thing.

But if it were prorated down to remove the cost of the other three items, yes, I would spend some dollars on gems to get it because I only skip collecting skins that I find completely ugly and useless to me (hi, Lawless, boxing gloves, and the like).

I just wanted to bring it to ANet’s attention in case this was an oversight on their part as this is probably one of those times when they’d make more money on the backpack by not shoving it in with account-wide items most ’vari fans will already have.