The ArenaNet Response is very sloppy. The problem isn’t it being $50, obviously. The problem is why is there NO OPTIONS to buy the expansion on it’s own? If I purchase a car, I would understand that I will need to pay for oil change when I need to, but they wouldn’t make me BUY A NEW CAR every time I go oil change, so every time I go oil change I come home with one extra car which I don’t need; If I purchase a phone, I don’t expect to pay for the SAME PHONE again every time there’s a new case to fit on it, and I go home with one extra phone just to sit in the corner of my room, because “The phone comes with the new case! So basically your phone which you paid for is valued at $0 and the NEW CASE is valued at $800”.
And still the question remains, WHY CAN’T WE BUY THE HoT with just the expansion? NONE OF THE staff team can give me a straight answer, because basically old players are getting kitten. ArenaNet is ran by morons.