Guild Wars 2

Maybe I didn’t understand the “SKU” part clearly as when I quoted it, it seemed largely irrelevant to me. Is this implying that we’d have to buy essentially a “battle chest” under a new account to receive this kind of discount? If that’s the case, that seems troubling as well and still gives me no real incentive to purchase either of the expansions under my particular situation.

Edit: To further clarify the issue I have here – I believe the entire HoT fiasco was because new players could wait for the launch of HoT and get HoT and Core for approximately $35. And the wording of that article makes it seem like each expansion, it would include all previous expansions and Core for essentially the same price as the newest expansion.

That’s not completely out of reach to believe that’s how it was going to work since that’s exactly how it worked with HoT. Now let’s do a thought experiment here: What if GW2 goes the way of WoW and has 4+ expansions all roughly $35 on average. What do you think is a better way of getting the maximal amount of players in? 4 x $35, or a single $35 payment to get all old content + the newest content?

I don’t particularly understand this response based on information from the HoT outrage 2 years ago. Here’s an example:

“What it means is that for one price you will get the new expansion plus the original game and any previous expansions thrown in, an NCSoft spokesperson clarified. That’s the same as with the £34.99/€44.99 Heart of Thorns bundle, in other words.” – Linky

Why has this policy changed now? I was looking forward to buying PoF and getting HoT since I haven’t played GW2 for about 2 years. Now, I’m second guessing whether I should buy PoF as since it’s been so long since I’ve played I can be perfectly content playing just the Core for a significant amount of time.