HoT Price Feedback + Base game included [merged]
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Georemjimg.3490
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As a rule I prefer not to pre-purchase. I buy products after they are released and have been reviewed. The language in this implies that these rewards are only for pre-purchasing. Is that correct? Thank you for a reply and for addressing a couple of the issues, at least for those that will pre-purchase, but I’m still a little in the dark here, too much so to give up $50 quite yet.
No release date + Unclear deal of the pre-purchase + Unclear amount of new playable content + Don’t care much for guild halls and limited gliding = Not sold quite yet.
As I see it, the only thing you’ll be missing out on is the new PvE map(s), the new profession, and the elite specializations. From my understanding, the guild stuff doesn’t even matter, as long as the guild leader bought the expansion. (The guild hall stuff to me seems the most interesting out of the non PvP or WvW stuff)
I don’t really need a new character, really as I already have 8, one each prof, including an empty 9th slot. And I don’t really need the elite specs… maybe one or 2 of my chars I might want to use them, but no biggie. PvE… don’t really care much about that; haven’t really even been to much of the new PvE content since Karkas flooded the islands.
That’s kinda my take it. And, for me, if I end up really wanting the expansion… as someone who has been there since the beginning, I don’t really have any incentive to buy early anyway. So why…
A lot of the vets seem happy with this change, and I’m glad they are happy now too. That said I’m still not going to pre-purchase. I just can’t afford to drop that on the game any time soon, and I already had a open character slot waiting for something like this, so that new bonus doesn’t really speak to me.
Maybe offering 800 gems would have been better. I’m in the same boat.
I too think it’s great they acknowledge poor decisions, but still think this was a rather odd ball approach to resolution. Seems very “Oh crap, we messed up… gotta think of something to fix this… oh yeah, give em a free character slot. They will all need that anyway…” … or not.
I’m sure someone already said this among all the posts in this thread and several of the others I saw… but I personally would have preferred, instead of a free additional character slot, seeing an option for those who registered PRIOR to Jan 23, 2015 – discounted pricing for the expansion, something like: 49.99 gets you the Deluxe version and 74.99 gets you the Ultimate version.
Might actually see some people jumping at the second, higher priced alternative who meet the “older than this year” criteria… been here since the game started? Where’s my reward?
$50 worth of gems might sway some people… then it only feels like you are paying $15 for the “new” content (when you already had the core part anyway). And that feels to me more like I got a reward for being a long term player…
Getting the extra fluff of the Deluxe version for 49.99 also doesn’t make me feel like I was somehow cheated.
Anyway… needed to get that out.