Guild Wars 2

Like many others I found this first update to leave a great deal to be desired in respect of implementation and action taken to remedy it.

My experience of the 3rd phase and Ancient Karka fight was to be placed in the overflow, where with many others I attempted to complete it. The lag was such that several times our ‘zerg’ found itself suddenly ‘one shotted’ and 95% of us down. After a couple hours of play during which I repeatedly got a message appear to say that I was loosing contact with the client, this happened and I found myself transported to the normal server. There I found the event was over and I could not get back to the overflow.

It pretty much sums up my entire experience of this event, lot of frustration and nothing to show for it at the end.

This is not the first game this year that seems to discriminate in respect of it’s charges depending on where one lives. Funcom did the same initially and then altered it’s UK subscription costs to ’ … bring it more in line … ’ with the rest of the EU.

If Arenanet’s charges where determined by a country’s tax rate, I would have expected some official comment to say so and emphasise how ‘fair’ its charges were after 5 days.

However, trying to put scepticism aside and keep an open mind, could someone please tell me what is tax rate in the USA for a digital purchase such as this game’s ‘Gems’?

Many thanks in anticipation.