Guild Wars 2

Oh I wasn’t taking it as an attack phys, I was agreeing with what you said and was just saying why I’d worded it the way I did

phys.7689:

Nekosumii.7852:

What you people need to realize is that they’re doing this so they can still be competitive. They’re offering the xpac with the base game to basically say “hey you can get the original game AND the xpac so you can get some more bang for your buck” this game isn’t sub based, they need to be able to keep getting new players in so they can keep their income from ebbing to the point they can’t stay afloat. I’d say they should probably just have some kind of compensation since everyone’s making such a big fuzz over this…

you are right, they know that heart of thorns to a new player is not worth 50 bucks alone. They know that a guild wars player places a higher value on HoT. The miscalculation may have been how much of a higher value does the core player place on it.

as well as pricing it at 50 for the standalone makes the core player crystalize the value of both together.

No matter how you slice it, its bad marketing. They should have had the combined game at 60 and the expansion at 40, if only to maintain the illusion that the base game was worth 60.
truth is most of their money is going to come from people who already purchased, they should have built their marketing strategy around older players perceptions of things, rather than new players.

they can give a discount on the combined game later. It would have been better to have 30% of new players waiting for a discount than have 30% of old players waiting for a discount, since they have probably gotten most of the new players they are going to get by now.

I agree, I never said it was a good business move but I was just getting annoyed that people were just immediately getting kitteny over this rather than atleast trying to understand Anet’s rationale behind it.

What you people need to realize is that they’re doing this so they can still be competitive. They’re offering the xpac with the base game to basically say “hey you can get the original game AND the xpac so you can get some more bang for your buck” this game isn’t sub based, they need to be able to keep getting new players in so they can keep their income from ebbing to the point they can’t stay afloat. I’d say they should probably just have some kind of compensation since everyone’s making such a big fuzz over this…