Guild Wars 2

Might as well throw in that I know numerous people were able to get accounts back with little to no info at all for a long time now, at this point you can just tell support to give you this account email back and they will do it.

This is the best first hand example i have, everything is verbatim from the email except for info being taken out (this account was perma banned as well as had a forgotten password):

Hello, I wanted to try and get out some nostalgia out playing guild wars, but I’m having trouble logging into my account, is there any way you can help me out? Thanks

Hello *******,

Thank you for contacting Guild Wars 2. I am sorry you are having issues with your account.
I have verified your information, unblocked your account, and sent a password reset to your email. If you have any other problems please feel free to contact me. Have a good night.

Regards,

GM ********
Guild Wars 2 Support Team
http://help.guildwars2.com/

I can see this takes some pretty hardcore “social engineering”.

I honestly believe that the marketing team thought that, given World of Warcraft’s success at selling 40-50 dollar expansions with a subscription fee, that they can get $50 for a game without a subscription fee. Many people justify that the price is perfectly fine given that there is no subscription fee. There is of course no way to really know this without an official statement.

Been “playing” (aka have had an account since beta) the game since beta, and have played the original Guild Wars since 2006.

I was excited for the game at first, but after a month of play, I realized I wasn’t really having much fun with the game. It felt like I was honestly a child being sent to a daycare center, running around doing tasks that really didnt feel very rewarding..

The Heart of Thorns expansion rekindled my hope for the game as it was bringing more depth to the game ( + Guild Halls and GvG from GW1). But for the amount of content I was seeing, I was honestly expecting a $20 price tag at minimum. As more and more announcements went on, and I began to see the detail in the new maps, this jumped to $35. You can blame this pricing on what we got for our money in the original guild wars I guess.

$50 for only the base expansion was crazy for me. People can say that blizzard commits worse atrocities, and I do not like their price models either. In the end I played Guild Wars for the fact that they were aiming to have a price model that competed with blizzard, not imitated blizzard.

My advice would be to drop the Heart of Thorns Expansion to $35-40 (with the deluxe/ultimate getting a price drop relative to this of course) with no base game inclusion. And then to put the base game back up for sale at $15-20. This is what I was expecting the pricing to be in all honesty.

Until then, I dont really see a reason to buy this expansion. For those that do, I am hopeful that the upcoming heart of thorns announcements do warrant the $50 dollar price point, at which time I will reconsider buying the expansion.

Catseye.3164:

You can buy guild wars 2 at other stores. Such as amazon. They aren’t offering it in website other than as a free bonus but if you just want core game its available. Amazon lists ncsoft as seller.

This is true, until stock on the base game goes out. This is more of an actual question that I cannot answer rather than a rhetorical remark, but what will happen then? I will not be suprised if only the heart of thorns bundle gets restocked.