I just bought Guild Wars 2 last month from an online video game store (not through ANet) on the recommendation of a friend, and I’ve enjoyed it so far, though I haven’t even quite gotten my first character to level 80 yet. I’m kind of annoyed to find out after the fact that I could have gotten it for free with the expansion had I waited another month, but I guess I won’t stress over that. My issue is that the small amount of content in the expansion (such as we know about so far) is Not worth 50 bucks to me. I’m not keen on buying things sight-unseen when they cost that kind of money. If it was 20 bucks, 30 bucks, I might bite. But for 50 bucks? That’s not a pre-buy price. That’s a “wait until it’s been out for a while, read some reviews, watch some videos of people playing it, ask friends what they think of it, and then make an informed decision” price.