Guild Wars 2

Hi,
Personally I will definitely wait till ANet gets their sanity back, before I even consider getting the expansion.
First of all since the expansion includes a new profession, everyone getting the expansion should be granted an additional character slot.
Comparing “Standard” (£34.99) and “Deluxe” (£59.99) editions, I find it hard to believe that a character slot, miniature, finisher animation and a glider skin, are worth an additional £25; that’s four things that take very little to no effort to make, cost just £10 less than an entire game + expansion… this already says something about the sales side of things. Where are those prices pulled out of?

Then once again we see the trend of treating new customers better than existing, long time customers. If ANet is happy to give base game (for which I paid almost £50) to new players for free, as an add-on to the expansion, why not give expansion free to existing customers, as an add-on to the base game lol /jk

And to those blinded by the hype and love to the game and the so called car “analogy” – cars break over time and older models usually aren’t as economic as the new ones, while software matures over time (bugs removed, new features etc.). So really it’s like buying a car full of inconveniences and broken parts, reporting them to the manufacturer so that he may fix them (making the car higher value), while telling the world just how great this car is, so that more people buy it, and then after 3 years being able to buy an upgrade for it for the same price that a new customer will pay for the upgrade + brand new almost perfected version of your car, with 0 mileage.

Somebody is forgetting that success of any game (and releasing company) is entirely dependent on the community – the loyal player base who despite many problems didn’t claim their money back and looked elsewhere, but supported the game by playing it and in many cases making extra payments. It’s thanks to those players that GW2 is where it is. You can make the best game ever, but if there aren’t enough people playing it, more will leave until there is no one.

By getting a worse deal than new customers, I feel unappreciated as a player… I feel like a thief who got mugged and had gunk thrown at him (no kidding – hard feelings :p )

Meanwhile I’m gonna enjoy playing a gunner in this other game that just released the class in it’s free update, probably funded by players buying inappropriate costumes…
And how is it that GW2 can’t pull that off with it’s gems store? I mean I was promised free updates for life and evolving world at launch, but other than some bug fixes the only things that I remember are Lion’s Arch getting wrecked, OP spiky-tentacle monsters, some nerfs and maybe a story or two that wasn’t really worth playing the second time…