Guild Wars 2

Linken.6345:

To get into the jungle areas you have to start the hot story, it will leady you there through the silverwastes.

Yeah. I started it and completed exploring the first map but didn’t find where to go next and it looked to me that first map linked only to Bloodstone Fen and my only way to get anywhere is purchase of LS season 3. So I thought that as I don’t have access to that map I can’t get to the rest of the maps in the region as well.
Now I know that only few of them are unaccessible for me.

Ashen.2907, Oh… I see. I thought access to all those jungle locations is restricted as restricted bloodstone fen and maps linked to it. So only those few maps weren’t supposed to be original HoT content. That explains it. I’m glad that I was mistaken. Thank you for clearing things out for me.

So. I played GW2 from release day 1 from time to time leaving it just to return few months later. Loved it a lot. Especially I appreciated that I could play it when I feel like it and leave it the same way. It was stated that if you bought the game, you gain access to all content that it contains. And it was true… at least until my recent return.
I never felt that I should play the game when I don’t want to. So I have missed great deal of living world story and was ok with that. It was enough for me just to catch story of what happened by listening from friend or watching videos. And when I was coming back to the game it every time felt like “Welcome back. As you can tell by the look, theres some stuff happened but you’re free to play as it always been”. Yes, there was living story, but the game just kept going. It hadn’t restricted you. You simply rolled in and played. Then came the idea of replaying the episodes of living story that you have missed. It was free for you if you catched it when it was live and you was charged to pay for it some real money/gold if you missed it but was willing to play it. Firstly it was optionable. When HoT came out, it was stated that things will stay the same. You bought it, you free to play all the content it has. And so I’ve been away from the game for last 2 years. A few days ago when I felt that now I like to play it, I bought my copy of HoT. With a full pants of joy I rolled in just to find out that I don’t have access to like half of new content including the entire maps just because I don’t have access to living world season 3. It means I bought the expansion that consists of that maps and as a fact at the same time I don’t have access to them. And I won’t until I pay more. It was a game for me about which I thought as my favorite and never felt the way about it as I feel right now. A dissapointment. And not because the game is bad. I enjoyed these days of playing it again a lot. Look at that as like you have been buying lets say tomatoes from the same person for some time. And nothing special happened. You payed the stated price for stated goods on a stated conditions. But one day you come to this person again and when you already gave money and just about to take your goods, trader says that today you must pay a bit more. “I already payed the price I was asked for, it’s mine now” – you say. And you hear: “Nope. I won’t give it to you until you pay me more”. And at this moment I really don’t understand what anet think of when doing something like that. If only you would say “We need a bit more” strictly from the beginning looking in the eyes of your customer. But the way you do it… You guys are the last ones I was expecting things like that from. The thing is not how big or little that price but the way you put it in. I have always felt with gw2 that after I payed the price I was asked for, I’m free and that feeling was very special thing about this game. Well, not anymore.