Guild Wars 2

Benson.9063:

Xawen.2658:

Just to be sure.
A vet player that bought the game 40$ (yes some had, even know one that paid 60$ when the game just got out.) and buy the expension at 49.99$ will have pay a total of 89.99$.
But a brand new player will pay only the 49.99$ (add a 10$ if you want to count the extra character slot for the equivalence, so 59.99$ in that case).
So a vet player would have paid at least 30$ more then the new player in that case…
Sorry, but I don’t see the fairness for loyal players.

I pre-ordered the game at full price (I think it was $60). That was 3 years ago. I’ve been playing the game on and off for 3 years. If they had told me in 2012 that I had the option of paying $60 now + $50 for expansion later, OR I can wait, not play the game for 3 years, but just pay $50, I still would have bought the game 3 years ago at the $60 premium.

As a vet you are entitled. Yes, you are entitled to 3 years of gw2 that a newbie did not get. I want gw2 to grow and I want them to bring in new players because I want to play a game with an active playerbase that isn’t dying out.

I also want them to make $$ to keep their game going and because they have a good product and rightfully should be making their $$. And they can’t just be running on the revenue from selling the base game 3 years ago… they have costs, and people have salaries and kitten. They didn’t just hoard their initial game sales revenue to pay all of that every year, every month etc… they make $ from their cash shop (which i’ve chosen not to use until today and still have enjoyed my game); i’m guessing that’s their primary source of revenue over the past 1-2 years, and the way you keep that constant or growing is with new players.

Thank for your reply, explained that way is a bit more understandable. Just that like I said in a comment after the one you quoted, me and my guild-mates were more expecting an upgrade of currently owned game by elder players, like 10$-20$ to upgrade to the expansion pack, a bit like getting to Digital Deluxe.

I agree with your point, the game worth more than you pay for seeing that way. And we don’t pay normally for the evolution of the story.

I understand your point. It’s just that I might be of the ones that where expecting an upgrade expansion from their current game for XX$ instead of a re-purchase of the game more expensive then their original purchase of the game.

Ayrilana.1396:

Xawen.2658:

Just to be sure.
A vet player that bought the game 40$ (yes some had, even know one that paid 60$ when the game just got out.) and buy the expension at 49.99$ will have pay a total of 89.99$.
But a brand new player will pay only the 49.99$ (add a 10$ if you want to count the extra character slot for the equivalence, so 59.99$ in that case).
So a vet player would have paid at least 30$ more then the new player in that case…
Sorry, but I don’t see the fairness for loyal players.

Game prices depreciate over time in case you hadn’t realized. When the game was marked down to $10, did you make a complaint known to Anet that people were getting the game $30 cheaper than you?

Far from me the idea of getting rude.
But the game didn’t lower in price below 40$, it happened the have special rebate on sporadic weekends for various occasion. But it was still quoted 40$ or 40$ -75% special on those occasions. so according to this, the game cannot really be quoted at 10$ for calculating it’s value compared to the expansion since was still valued at 40$ when off rebates.

Just to be sure.
A vet player that bought the game 40$ (yes some had, even know one that paid 60$ when the game just got out.) and buy the expension at 49.99$ will have pay a total of 89.99$.
But a brand new player will pay only the 49.99$ (add a 10$ if you want to count the extra character slot for the equivalence, so 59.99$ in that case).
So a vet player would have paid at least 30$ more then the new player in that case…
Sorry, but I don’t see the fairness for loyal players.