Guild Wars 2

Lazze.9870:

ZennithRising.8653:

He mentioned that all of Gw1 expansions came with one

GW1 only had one expansion, Eye of the North, which didn’t add any slots.

The other three games were called campaigns and were standalone to eachother. You had the options to either make a new account (which gave you 4 slots) or adding the campaign to an excisting account (giving you 2 new slots).

HoT doesn’t really compare to how they did it in GW1.

Alright well then if we’re gonna compare expansions. EoTN was priced at $40 on release.

And if we want to get on prices. The stand alone campaigns which obviously will have more content than an expansion, but also acted like an expansion since you could add them to an existing account were priced at $50.

Manasa Devi.7958:

GW1 has stand-alone campaigns that came with the option of adding them to a single account so one could have the totality of the gaming world available for all characters on the account. Fusing the campaigns that way made them appear much like one game was an expansion to another game. This is what makes people confused about the whole thing, incorrectly calling Factions and Nightfall expansions.

If you owned one campaign, you’d get 4 character slots. If you bought another campaign and created a separate account for it, that account would also have 4 character slots. Joining a new campaign to an account already owning at least one other campaign, that existing account would gain 2 character slots. This added up to, like Echo said: 2 slots for the account plus 2 slots per added campaign.

Along came GW2, and somewhat later, HoT appeared, with GW2 added in for free. GW2 gave us 5 slots, and the new HoT bundle will (presumably) also give people the same 5 slots if they add that to a fresh account. Adding HoT to an existing GW2 account however, will add no slots.

With GW1, buying 2 campaigns will get you one of the following options:

• An account with campaign 1 (4 slots) and a separate account with campaign 2 (4 slots)
• A single account with both purchases combined (6 slots)

4 and 4, or 6.

With GW2, buying the basic game and the expansion that comes with a free basic game will get you one of the following options:

• An account with GW 2 basic (5 slots) and a separate account with the HoT expansion that comes with the free basic game (5 slots)
• A single account with both purchases combined: the basic game and the HoT expansion (5 slots)

5 and 5, or 5

GW1’s 4+4=6 for single account players is obviously more attractive than GW2’s 5+5=5 for single account players. GW2 completely eliminates an entire game’s worth of resources for single account players, which is obviously a very unattractive prospect. The alternative is to have two separate accounts, which is equally unattractive because that way the original account doesn’t get “expanded” with new content and features.

The HoT deal makes us chose between 2 bad options: no new character slots, or no new content and features for our old account.

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While I don’t feel entitled to anything. I feel a kitteneated with them being so stingy to the point that they would not include an extra character slot with the standard versions, at least for veteran players. This isn’t me feeling entitled. It’s me holding them to their own standard. They’ve always included an extra 2 character slots in their add on campaigns. I’m not angry about them including the base game. That’s a great deal for new players and is a great way to bring in new players. I would love to see this game expand. But come on. At least show you’re thinking of veterans. I honestly think something as small as the extra slot in the standard would have helped avoid all of this.

Hey guess what this isn’t WoW so lets not compare their price model. What we should hold it against is the value we got from the old Guild Wars games. They were expansions but basically stand alone games that were priced the same as this expansion. The only problem is this expansion in terms of content is pretty light at least everything they’ve revealed and is no where near a stand alone game. On top of that they don’t even have the decency to give you a god kitten ed character slot in the standard version. To me that’s extremely stingy. In the old games on top of more content you also got extra character slots. They were not used to fluff up a “deluxe” version. To patch things up they need to be more clear as to what content is being added as well as give an extra character slot to all versions.

As a side note many buy to play and free to play games with micro transactions actually do far better than most subscription based games. Because many people end up spending around the same or more a year on them.

I’m just posting this again here to make sure it’s seen. My friends account got hacked on the 3rd of September and he is still waiting for a reply. The email was changed and he didn’t authorize any such thing. So anything the account is being used for is not him. But someone elses doing. Please help him out in getting his account back.
Ticket number – 120904-009601

My friends account got hacked on the 3rd of September and he is still waiting for a reply. The email was changed and he didnt authorize any such thing. So anything the account is being used for is not him, but someone elses doing. Please help him out in getting his account back.
Ticket number – 120904-009601