Guild Wars 2

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

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, besides the “free character slot” for players that have been around for a while (like me, who bought the game about 2 weeks after launch) what is my $50 getting me? A new character class that I probably won’t play anyway, because it doesn’t interest me. Opening one new zone on the map and reorganizing the specs for characters (oh wait…that already happened!). Still not interested in paying $50 for a game I already own and what amounts to some DLC that could be downloaded as a game update.

Also, what happened to the Anet announcement about a year ago that there would never be a paid xpac for GW2? It was less then 3 months later that HoT was announced as a paid xpac. You can’t honestly say that no one knew it was being produced. You guys are coming off even more shady then Blizzard right about now.

I’ve been excited for this expansion since it was announced, but I’ll be joining what seems to be a rapidly expanding majority in saying I will NOT be buying HoT for a long while. There is NO WAY I’ll spend $50 for a game I already own just for some tweeks and a couple new maps, regardless of the “guaranteed beta access” . (BTW, isn’t that just open beta by that point?) Nor will I pay $75 for all of the above, a character slot and a bunch of vanity crap.

The point is, I think this release should be seriously rethought, otherwise this game is going to lose a lot of the player base that has made it so great.