Guild Wars 2

Tachenon.5270:

Oh, heh, I thought it was a good parallel. Way too much for an expansion, way too much for a docking station. :-D

Ah- I misunderstood your subtle sarcasm

And as for…

Ayrilana.1396:

No.

After reviewing your post history, I believe you are either an employee for ArenaNet or a sheep.

Tachenon.5270:

Tobias.2693:

If you will, follow me on a mythical adventure using the business model set forth here-

My name is Johnny B. Isness and I am the owner of Best Buy. Today, I am going to offer anyone who purchases ‘Laptop A’ the low price of $500 for said laptop, and nothing else. A year from now, I’m going to offer NEW customers the same ‘Laptop A’ WITH a docking station for the low price of $500. One of my customers from the first promotion wants the docking station? “That’ll be $500 please and thanks!”

…

Let’s say you’re in the first group of people… are you not mad at me for giving away the laptop that you paid $500 for to new people just because, ‘oh they need it to enjoy the docking station’?

Isn’t that price a little, shall we say, outrageous for a docking station?

Plug in whatever product you want… let’s say fridge and oven then… same scenario

If you will, follow me on a mythical adventure using the business model set forth here-

My name is Johnny B. Isness and I am the owner of Best Buy. Today, I am going to offer anyone who purchases ‘Laptop A’ the low price of $500 for said laptop, and nothing else. A year from now, I’m going to offer NEW customers the same ‘Laptop A’ WITH a docking station for the low price of $500. One of my customers from the first promotion wants the docking station? “That’ll be $500 please and thanks!”

…

Let’s say you’re in the first group of people… are you not mad at me for giving away the laptop that you paid $500 for to new people just because, ‘oh they need it to enjoy the docking station’?

I agree completely… They should have never packaged the core game with the expansion for one price like this. The expansion should cost $20-30. They could have created a package for $50 that includes both for newcomers instead of forcing those of us who have had the core game for whatever amount of time to pay an exorbitant price for an ‘expansion’.

At the current price points, I will not be pre-purchasing or purchasing period for that matter. Business/marketing practices like these are just ludicrous.