Guild Wars 2

“There’s probably very few of you who grew up with less than I did so believe me, I understand the value of a dollar. You are right, kids are expensive, family in general is expensive, having a social life is expensive. Fifty dollars for a game you’ll play for a long time is not expensive.”

The problem is something else! You must look at the deal proposed by Anet! When the GREED gets out of hand this is what happens!
Until days ago they were selling GW2! Some bought GW2 just days ago for about 40 Euro! What about them!?

The following was posted on this forum:

“So last week I bought GW2, I’m more then a little annoyed about the expansion including the base game(with ANET doing this, they are essentially saying the base game is worthless).”

And this is another great comment from another forum!

“As of late, the decisions with trying to bring in newer players after almost 3 years feels like a slap in the face to veteran players. If people aren’t playing this game by this time, it shows that your “Base” game is not what’s going to bring in a TON of new players because that’s what should have happened anyways. It is the veterans that are supporting your company. If you want to bring in new players to help revenue, then that’s your right. However, if you make business decisions that show respect to the core player base, they will throw money at you!"

Anyways sometimes it is good to see what others think as well.

“The person who thought that was a great markething idea need to get his school money back, it is the complete opposite of what you want to do.
Normaly you reward people who support your company and helps you raise funds for new products, that you can sell to excisting and new customers. But this is a kick in the nuts for all the customers who supported you (except for the white knight/fanboys and trolls, who will buy your product no matter what you do)”

I totaly agree with you. Well said. The thing is , people don’t see the trick behind this deal! They know it better than us , that most of the GW2 core players are vétérans. They are the ones that supported this game despite its ups and downs from day ONE. Most of them have no character slot left! I know quiet many players that bought gems for additional character slot. So what good it is to have the expansion and not a character slot!? The answer is , because they know, when you get the expansion, if you can afford you’d run to ingame shop and buy a character slot! If you can’t afford then you grind…keep grinding until …. or never! I am not for FREE stuff but least they could do , give us a free character slot with expansion not GW2 core instead .

I am not suprised to see many GW2 players refusing to buy the expansion! Or some even thinking of leaving it until they come up with a reasonable offer! I hardly post in this forum, but this morning after seeing what GW2 is selling us , put a big WOW on my mouth! I already have gw2 so why should I pay almost 50 euro and get what I already have including the Heart of Thorns ! All I need is Heart of Thornes , so I assume it must be less! On top of that, we are told that they have done that to attract new players! This is throwing the old players down the drain or what! Buying gems all these years , making them earn alot of money in the ingame shop was not enough, is not enough! Now this! With 50 euro we don’t even get 1 free character slot! We get AGAIN GW2 core and the new expansion! Seriously have they taken us for idiots!
Anyways I stop playing until they come up with a better offer for all and long time players. I have been looking forward to this expansion, but unfortunatly this is not a FAIR deal!