Guild Wars 2

Yes. The expansion is not locked in that aspect. The store will allow you to add the serial key to your account

Well that didn’t take long thats one account down.

The other choice they had was coming forward and being honest instead of ignoring the community (hostile or not) and trying to pull a fast one. It may be true now but it contradicts what it said before that brought in sales/revenue.

What they need to do is man up and explain to the community why they are trying to cover this up instead of confronting the community.

People will still rage but they will save face by being honest, the whole trying to hide it behind edits is doing nothing positive for them. All they are accomplishing now is making themselves look even more shady and dishonest/guilty of false advertising.

You call this classy ?
It is anything but classy, giving the new players a gift is all fine and good but this is blatantly trying to cover up their previous FAQ’s that stated you need the base game to be able to play, which suggested that people needed to buy it before hand, which SEVERAL people did as per Anets answer.

You and I have a very different definition of classy.

I can tell you what you don’t do, you sure as heck don’t try and cover it up.

They outright lied to people on their FAQ’s and then edited them to cover it up. Sorry there is no understanding now, the second they tried to cover it up is the second they basically admitted to lying.

Shame on you Arena Net, this is what I would expect from my 15 year old that is trying to get away with something.

I’m actually shocked you went this far to hide your blunder. Would it not have been easier to say “oops, we made a mistake” or simply explain why you felt this was the best course of action.

Q: Do I have to own Guild Wars 2 to play the expansion?
A: Yes, but Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns includes the Guild Wars 2 core game.

This is not what your FAQ’s read a couple days ago, I mean one needs to ask, is this even legal ?

godz raiden.2631:

Nuzt.7894:

Yip, the servers that do not have the coverage will not get the rewards they deserve for fighting an uphill battle for 2 months. They will work harder get beat up worse and have their Morale challenged on several occasions only to be slapped in the face at the end of it all.

I know. Isn’t it exciting! I love fighting in silver league where servers are either way so overpopulated thanks to free transfers that they just blob everything for easy wins, or a server is so dead that they put up no fight at all leaving some matchups a 1v1. WvW working at intended I’m sure!

I’m assuming things aren’t much better down in bronze league in some matchups either.

I wouldn’t say Bronze is quite as kittenilver when it comes to stacked servers, GoM/DR/DH/SF are all decent size. DR probably received the most transfers in Bronze but it was no where near the extent of HoD. They are doing well but its not like they received so many that they don’t have to work for anything. Silver is more fubar then bronze, we really only have ET & Ebay that are suffering and even they put up a fight.

I’ll throw in a vote for TBT from low teirs, open field WvW I’m not sure if I’ve seen a guild in bronze to match them.