Guild Wars 2

Vayne.8563:

Just so you know, the original is not free. That is the game you bought is NOT the free version. There are a boatload of limitations on the free version. You can’t send anything to anyone. Your access to the trading post, both buying and selling is extremely limited. You only get 2 character slots. You can’t talk in map chat. Playing the unrestricted game is very different from playing the free game.

Anet has to compete with other MMOs and most of them are doing the same thing. Imagine how hard it would be to get someone to start the game three, four expansions down the road, if the buy in price is 300.

For two years of WoW, you’d be paying for the game and $15 a month. This game doesn’t charge for a monthly fee. I’ve personally gotten my money’s worth for the $60 I spent originally, even having bought it for me and my wife.

So 3 years later, they come out with an expansion and ask for another $50?

One of the best deals out there for an MMO that doesn’t have a pay to win cash shop. That’s my take on it.

Ok, I totally agree that I’ve gotten my money’s worth with my copy, the game is awesome so let’s get that out of the way. If I had only bought the one copy and had to dish out for HOT this post wouldn’t even be here.

It’s really just that I’m an older game whose been dying to play with his family, and yes maybe I rushed into buying the other 2 copies when I should’ve waited (didn’t see the 12.5K hospital bill coming), but I was so enthusiastic about the game, and the prospect of having my own little ‘home-guild’ if you will, that I grabbed the other two copies before I had the computers for the girls to play them on.

Vegeta.2563 – Awesome, thank you for that!

I bought GW2 4 years ago and loved the game. I set a goal to get 3 gaming computers so that I, my wife and my daughter could eventually play together. After a few setbacks, nearly kicking the bucket thanks to my appendix, and the passage of a couple years my wife bought 2 more copies of the game for herself and my daughter in May of 2015 because she saw it was on sale at a discount. Finally, after working my tail off and not having time to play for a year and a half, I have the computers so we could all play together.

When I returned only to learn that the Original was now free and there was all this content that we were not privy to without the HoT expansion, when I realised that I would be paying double the amount of a new player, compounded by the fact that I had not 1 or 2 but 3 accounts to upgrade, essentially paying for 6 copies of the game, I can’t pretend I wasn’t disappointed.

Is there really no discount for returning players? Is there possibly a way to buy one upgrade for all of my accounts?

All I can say is that having to afford 3 more copies of the game is going to further delay the time that my family and I get to play the game to its fullest together by quite a long time. We are not wealthy.