To clarify: $50 is the price of the expansion. We included the core game as a free bonus to make it easier for new players to get into it.
So what about existing players? I just feel like it’s totally excluding people who already own the game. It means the money we spent to buy Guild Wars 2 in the first place doesn’t mean anything anymore. Most of us don’t want a free second account with the expansion. It’d be nice if existing players got some kind of bonus to the account they already have, or some kind of loyalty discount for HoT.