Guild Wars 2

phys.7689:

Ayrilana.1396:

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Ayrilana.1396:

Gw2 was $60 and not $50. You don’t know how big/small HoT will be..

HOT is $60 bucks as well. So you are paying exactly the same.

And no we don’t know how big HOT will be. But we do know:

-It will be smaller than the core game, and thus shouldn’t cost the same.
-It’s a small expansion, not a full standalone expansion like in GW1.

Ayrilana.1396:

EotN and HoT are priced similar to their base games.

EotN was NOT priced similar to it’s core game. It was a lot cheaper than Prophecies.

You’re purposely inflating the cost for the extra character slot which comes free with pre-purchases. EotN was priced similar as I showed by showing the percentage of the original’s cost.

Prepurchase bonuses are irrelevant to the actual product. They are special offers in exchange for buying a product which does not exist yet

And the actual product is $50, not $60.

If an extra character slot is not part of the actual product, then how can the price of the actual product be the cost of the actual product plus an optional addition?

This logic doesn’t even make sense. If you are going to complain about character slots not being baseline with the actual product, then do so, but don’t try to suggest that the actual product costs $10 more than it actually does simply to include something the developers have deemed optional.

keelaunaw.3285:

most mmo xpacs give you huge maps, and things to do. anet tries to make you think a free toon slot for a new class is something to behold, when other mmo xpacs give those to you FREE.

and this xpac only opens up 3 areas in maguuma, out of the HUGE tyrian world atlas. this maguuma isnt even maps, it is areas because they are much smaller, like dry top.

and after leaving the broken personal stories to linger rotting like no one cares abt the game for nearly 3yrs, wtf makes you think this game/xpac is worth even $20, let alone $50….?

Behold, the prophet of HoT, privvied to information the rest of us can only dream of.

Seriously, raging about price and throwing out some completely unverified “facts” as justification only makes you look like a kitten .

Asudementio.8526:

Your argument is that quantity of content is the only metric on which price should be established. Fine that is a fair position to have then. For others this is not the case, it is always something nice but for some of us we weigh the worth of games more abstractly.

Preach. I don’t care about 78 instanced maps that are all basically the same thing. I don’t care about silly desktop memorabilia to look at. I don’t care about 2 professions that I didn’t end up playing more than maybe 2 hours of total (my Paragon was only leveled so I could run Imbagon in FoW and my Dervish made it to level 3).

If you can’t justify spending $50 on an expansion to a game you (presumably) enjoy, then don’t get it. NOBODY is forcing you. I’m very excited about this expansion. Will I be let down? It’s always possible. Will I be blown away? It’s always possible. In the end, very few people are going to care that they aren’t getting a physical copy of the game with a bunch of desktop filler books and miniatures. I want $50 worth of content.

I’d rather pay $50 and get $50 worth of in-game content than spend $50 and get $25 worth of random filler crap to clutter my desk.

The people in this thread who pretend to know exactly what HoT will contain make me laugh. Nobody knows; stop pretending like you’re not just mad that mom won’t shell out $50 for a prepurchase for you.