Guild Wars 2

- Date: June 23rd, as soon as update hits.
- Time: As soon as update hits.
- Details: A “meetup” for Necromancers at the newly rebuilt Lion’s Arch statue, to “celebrate” the changes to Necromancers, and our beloved healing skill, Consume Conditions.
- World/Server: Tarnished Coast
- Region: NA

Hosted by Necromancers for Change, a gathering of Necromancers.

Bring your minions, and Molachev kittentails!

Ark Bladesteele.2943:

I redeemed the HoT code on my current account. There are no separate codes, it appears if you redeem the code on your existing account you do not get another “free” copy of the base game.

This is highly misleading, unless someone from ANet wishes to explain to me how to start another account from a code that has already been redeemed.

If not, and I suspect as such, then that’s BS. The news and order pages should be updated to state that you do not get a free copy of the base game if you activate HoT on a pre-existing account. It means that veteran players are indeed getting screwed; those of us that have an account already will pay whatever we paid for the game originally ($60 in my case) plus $50 for the expansion and no additional account. That brings my total up to $110.

New players get both the base game and the expansion for $50. Wow.

That’s really all I have to say about that.

quacthulhu.2546:

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For previous players…The $50 price tag would be fine, if HoT was the size of a Nightfall-esque Xpac, in other words: almost an entire game’s worth of content. From what we’ve been told, it’s nowhere near that much.

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Also Nightfall, you were given 2 character slots if you already owned any other campaign. It shows how Arenanet handled these things in the past vs. now.

Gotta say this is a HUGE disappointment from a company I have supported and defended for the last 10 years. Now IF I get access to a 2nd account (with full HoT) and the HoT on my original account, the $50 is reasonable (tho I dislike being forced into buying a 2nd account), but I do not think this is the deal being offered. Not sure why a separate package including the core game and a discount priced one for ($30) Veterans is not possible. It’s not the $20 as much as the feeling I’m being gouged by a company I have supported for over a decade.

Frankly, $50 is just too high for what I have seen being made available at this point (I’d pay the $50 for the $80 package possibly). Just making sure Anet is aware that this decade long supporter is going to turn his back on this offer and wait for HoT to be discounted (and if they don’t offer a different package, that will happen rather soon after release).

Very disappointed long time supporter of Anet here.

Quarktastic.1027:

Watson.6492:

The only regulatory mechanism for business practices that are not outright illegal is the consumer. If the consumer doesn’t react in kind, the market doesn’t regulate. Everything is working as market mechanisms intend.

I’m a consumer, but I don’t react like the people on this forum.

I quietly put back whatever I was looking at buying, and walk away.

I guess silent protest works in some cases, but i’m all for the workings of the vocal majority, the business/game practices ANet has been showing in recent are downright bad, i’m glad people are making this vocally known

Spoiler Alert .. Dhuum’s awake .. all that banging of hammers in LA has finally kittened off a sleeping Giant.
End result ….. we are all going to die.

Ooh, after over a year of turning GW2 away from all what GW1 was, Anet may implements a major GW1 mechanic.

Sounds cool, would have loved that from the beginning ofc….and I bet most of those GW vets who have already left too.

Maybe Anet starts to realize that chatacter customization is currently non-existant in GW2.

Maybe there is a real game designer left in some dark corner in Anets cellar (probably next to that missing story writer^^).

We’ll see…