Guild Wars 2

Stormbolt.7293:

The Rice Hat Samurai.5348:

Yojimaru.4980:

The Rice Hat Samurai.5348:

Guild Wars: Factions, $50, Guild Wars: Nightfall, $50. No. Look at EVERY expansion for World of Warcraft then come back.

Factions: Separate Campaign, added an entire continent, 2 new professions, multiple skills and armor sets, $50. Nightfall: Separate Campaign, added an entire continent, 2 new professions, multiple skills and armor sets, $50 bucks. WoW expansions, generally pretty kitten big.

HoT: Expansion, adds one profession, multiple skills and armor sets. As far as we know, the only areas added in PVE will be just to the west of Silverwastes and south into Magus Falls. I won’t be super pessimistic and say “lol only three maps!”, but such a small area doesn’t seem worth standard expansion price to me. Perhaps if they added the Maguuma Wastes all the way up to the coast of Janthir Bay and east into the Woodland Cascades, the current price would be more palatable.

I can agree with that. My issue is everyone screaming like they didn’t see this coming. Anyone with an iota of common sense saw this coming a mile away.

We wanted to believe that Anet was different from other MMO developers. After all, that’s what their entire image revolves around.

But at the end of the day they need to make money, that’s the point everyone is forgetting. We pay no subscription fee, get free content regularly. This isn’t a Steam sale, this isn’t a DLC bundle for a game. This is an expansion. Everyone seems to have forgotten the days past when expansions were things. Remember venerable old Diablo II? I do. I bought the Lord of Destruction expansion when that came out. $60. Look at Diablo III, oh, they have expansions there don’t they? $40 currently, but only because we’re in the age of people expecting DLC this, DLC that, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap. There’s more than the maps being added, people are ignoring that fact. There’s also allegedly more things to do.

Is it worth the $50? Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. If people aren’t happy with the price, then don’t pre-order. Let those of us willing to risk it do it. If it ends up being good, I’m sure people will hail it as the next great thing in Guild Wars 2, if not, well, anyone can do the math on that one.

Yojimaru.4980:

The Rice Hat Samurai.5348:

Guild Wars: Factions, $50, Guild Wars: Nightfall, $50. No. Look at EVERY expansion for World of Warcraft then come back.

Factions: Separate Campaign, added an entire continent, 2 new professions, multiple skills and armor sets, $50. Nightfall: Separate Campaign, added an entire continent, 2 new professions, multiple skills and armor sets, $50 bucks. WoW expansions, generally pretty kitten big.

HoT: Expansion, adds one profession, multiple skills and armor sets. As far as we know, the only areas added in PVE will be just to the west of Silverwastes and south into Magus Falls. I won’t be super pessimistic and say “lol only three maps!”, but such a small area doesn’t seem worth standard expansion price to me. Perhaps if they added the Maguuma Wastes all the way up to the coast of Janthir Bay and east into the Woodland Cascades, the current price would be more palatable.

I can agree with that. My issue is everyone screaming like they didn’t see this coming. Anyone with an iota of common sense saw this coming a mile away.

DaShi.1368:

The Rice Hat Samurai.5348:

DaShi.1368:

The Rice Hat Samurai.5348:

DaShi.1368:

The Rice Hat Samurai.5348:

Ephemiel.5694:

The Rice Hat Samurai.5348:

waSte.8640:

Khristophoros.7194:

I am willing to pay $19.99 for an account upgrade that has the HoT content and includes a character slot. I am not interested in your products if you’re trying to scam me.

My thoughts exactly. Not buying at that pricepoint especially kitten off no character slot. LOL!

How is it a scam? Have you ever bought an expansion for an MMO before? News flash, they’re all $50+.

Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward is $40. Shut up.

Guild Wars: Factions, $50, Guild Wars: Nightfall, $50. No. Look at EVERY expansion for World of Warcraft then come back.

Factions and Nightfall weren’t expansions. They were separate games that could be linked to each other and Prophesies.

Still expansions regardless. Do you need me to point out WoW again? Eye of the North was an expansion, $40 and came with no character slots.

Factions and Nightfall weren’t expansions.

And you keep repeating that ignoring the other examples.

I don’t care about the cherry picked examples. You’ve already demonstrated that you don’t want an honest discussion.

You don’t care about examples period it appears.

DaShi.1368:

The Rice Hat Samurai.5348:

DaShi.1368:

The Rice Hat Samurai.5348:

Ephemiel.5694:

The Rice Hat Samurai.5348:

waSte.8640:

Khristophoros.7194:

I am willing to pay $19.99 for an account upgrade that has the HoT content and includes a character slot. I am not interested in your products if you’re trying to scam me.

My thoughts exactly. Not buying at that pricepoint especially kitten off no character slot. LOL!

How is it a scam? Have you ever bought an expansion for an MMO before? News flash, they’re all $50+.

Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward is $40. Shut up.

Guild Wars: Factions, $50, Guild Wars: Nightfall, $50. No. Look at EVERY expansion for World of Warcraft then come back.

Factions and Nightfall weren’t expansions. They were separate games that could be linked to each other and Prophesies.

Still expansions regardless. Do you need me to point out WoW again? Eye of the North was an expansion, $40 and came with no character slots.

Factions and Nightfall weren’t expansions.

And you keep repeating that ignoring the other examples.

DaShi.1368:

The Rice Hat Samurai.5348:

Ephemiel.5694:

The Rice Hat Samurai.5348:

waSte.8640:

Khristophoros.7194:

I am willing to pay $19.99 for an account upgrade that has the HoT content and includes a character slot. I am not interested in your products if you’re trying to scam me.

My thoughts exactly. Not buying at that pricepoint especially kitten off no character slot. LOL!

How is it a scam? Have you ever bought an expansion for an MMO before? News flash, they’re all $50+.

Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward is $40. Shut up.

Guild Wars: Factions, $50, Guild Wars: Nightfall, $50. No. Look at EVERY expansion for World of Warcraft then come back.

Factions and Nightfall weren’t expansions. They were separate games that could be linked to each other and Prophesies.

Still expansions regardless. Do you need me to point out WoW again? Eye of the North was an expansion, $40 and came with no character slots.

mimijimi.8537:

The Rice Hat Samurai.5348:

Harrier.9380:

The Rice Hat Samurai.5348:

waSte.8640:

Khristophoros.7194:

I am willing to pay $19.99 for an account upgrade that has the HoT content and includes a character slot. I am not interested in your products if you’re trying to scam me.

My thoughts exactly. Not buying at that pricepoint especially kitten off no character slot. LOL!

How is it a scam? Have you ever bought an expansion for an MMO before? News flash, they’re all $50+.

I beg to differ.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/359480/

We also don’t pay a subscription fee.

do you realize how much they make off of gems

Which is entirely optional and voluntary. Not compulsory like a subscription fee.

Harrier.9380:

The Rice Hat Samurai.5348:

waSte.8640:

Khristophoros.7194:

I am willing to pay $19.99 for an account upgrade that has the HoT content and includes a character slot. I am not interested in your products if you’re trying to scam me.

My thoughts exactly. Not buying at that pricepoint especially kitten off no character slot. LOL!

How is it a scam? Have you ever bought an expansion for an MMO before? News flash, they’re all $50+.

I beg to differ.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/359480/

We also don’t pay a subscription fee.

Ephemiel.5694:

The Rice Hat Samurai.5348:

waSte.8640:

Khristophoros.7194:

I am willing to pay $19.99 for an account upgrade that has the HoT content and includes a character slot. I am not interested in your products if you’re trying to scam me.

My thoughts exactly. Not buying at that pricepoint especially kitten off no character slot. LOL!

How is it a scam? Have you ever bought an expansion for an MMO before? News flash, they’re all $50+.

Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward is $40. Shut up.

Guild Wars: Factions, $50, Guild Wars: Nightfall, $50. No. Look at EVERY expansion for World of Warcraft then come back.

If this is your first MMO, news flash, every other MMO, including Guild Wars 1, put out their expansions for $50, if not more. How about we calm down and demand that they at least put a character slot in the standard edition? That’s just common sense.

waSte.8640:

Khristophoros.7194:

I am willing to pay $19.99 for an account upgrade that has the HoT content and includes a character slot. I am not interested in your products if you’re trying to scam me.

My thoughts exactly. Not buying at that pricepoint especially kitten off no character slot. LOL!

How is it a scam? Have you ever bought an expansion for an MMO before? News flash, they’re all $50+.

I think the biggest point of contention for people I’ve been talking to is that the standard edition doesn’t come with a character slot. Consider the pricing in Guild Wars 1, and yes, I am aware it is a different game from another era. What you got for $50 was the expansion and two additional character slots. Makes sense, all of them but eye of the north came with two more classes. Why not throw a character slot into the standard edition? That would make a lot of people happier.

$50? Fine. I get it. Company needs to make money and as stated above, we get content regularly for free. Free. Let that settle in guys. Don’t be entitled, don’t be jerks. They need to make money at the end of the day to pay their people and to keep the servers running.

You may want to just tell people that you’re throwing in the base game for “free” to anyone who doesn’t have it just because people aren’t going to accept the line “includes the base game.” Just figured I’d put that out there so people stop being in such an uproar.