I honestly don’t get why people defend Anet here. This is just a good example of bad marketing from ANet their side.
I don’t get it why you couldn’t see this coming. Aside from the expansion’s price tag, which your financial department has alot more knowlegde about than I do, the marketing was just plain bad.
For alot of players this feels like ANet ignores the fact the players already payed for the base game, and someone else is getting it “free”. Ofcourse people tend to forget they’ve already been playing this game for a few more years than the newbies. But it’s not an uncommon response, and that’s why I don’t see why ANet didnt see this comming.
And all they had to do is just give the players who already own the base game a little thingy. Character slot, gems, pet, I dont know? Something that could’ve calmed their nerves a bit. Because, lets be honest 45euros is alot for something we barrely know something about.