Guild Wars 2

I game on a 4K TV from my couch. I recently came back to GW2 after a long time away, thinking about buying the HOT expansion. I logged in on a fresh install, and was getting a silky smooth 80+ FPS in 4K, but couldn’t read the UI even on the largest setting. Scaling down to 1080P looked hideous. Then I realized, instead of getting to enjoy some of the content that had been added since I was away, I had to actually BUY season 2 in addition to HOT. …I’m now uninstalling the game, and I am convincing my play group to take a closer look at a few other MMOs. Anet might think it doesn’t matter, but this is one more anecdote on the impact of a a tiny UI at 4K (along with some of their less than intelligent marketing practices, I guess). 3 HOT sales lost/pending now in the ether.

I was coming back to Guild Wars 2 because of the expansion. Then I saw Areana.net wants me to buy the core game again. I also saw they insulted my intelligence by playing semantics with what the price of core game is vs. price of the core game and expansion. Whatever, I’m sure they don’t care, but this one customer they just lost, along with my friend, actually, who was going to buy the game and install it this weekend for the first time. Now we bought Dying Light instead, and we’re playing that together (it’s a full game that’s cheaper than your “expansion”). You can word it however you like, Arena net, but you know you didn’t support your original customers with a value price for the expansion to add to their core game. That’s the kind of thing a game company pulls when they have a monopoly, not the kind of thing they pull when there are more options for playing games now then ever before in the history of gaming. I can hardly keep up already. …all that your policy does now, is make me think that not only are you extremely greedy and short sighted, but you are going to do it straight again on your next expansion too. So I uninstalled Guild Wars 2, and I think I’ll just skip all of your future expansions. I’ll probably skip your next game too, as I already have a few MMOs backed through kick starter as it is. If your next game looks good, I’ll wait until your first expansion comes out, since that’s apparently the sweet spot for your marketing guys and will be the best deal for me. Good luck with your business model, hope there’s enough suckers left to take the bait after you burn all those bridges.