Guild Wars 2

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I have read so many replies and so many topics.

This is how it goes:

Core game = 50$ (3 Years back)
Core game = 25$ (1 Year back) (I bought it for 30€ = now its 30$)

Gem store = 1k gems = 10$ (I have bought over 15k of gems = 150$, and I am sure others have paid even more.)

Gem Store 1 outfit = 800 gems (8$)

1000 Players buy 1 outfit = 800,000 or 80,000$ (They could pay the salary for 10 designers, programmers for 10 months if they paid them 800$ each month, but it doesn’t take them 10 months to release a 1 outfit.)

Couple of events, that went with new skins or other ways in which they gain money, which we think were for free… The thing is that nothing anyone does in this life is for free… so even though you say that 2 stories were for free, they were not, they were there for a reason, in this case for profit.

Now we arrive at the expansion.

Guild wars 2(core game) + HoT = 50$
For those who own GW2, HoT = 50$

As I describe earlier, you cannot think that they have given you anything for free, we ALL paid for the Guild Wars 2 game, 50,40,30,20$ over these years, the game development has paid for itself twice by now…
We all paid for the events when we bought Gems… By buying gems we gave them money to make those “FREE” events…
I haven’t seen them donating any of it to some charity…
Quote from Wiki: " In its first 2 weeks of sales Guild Wars 2 sold over 2 million copies"

So you can’t say that they have been spending their own money to give us FREE stuff.

The expansion for players who already own the game and have been each month paying ArenaNet so that they could produce “Free” events, we should receive a discount for this expansion.

We have been spending our money to allow them to make a huge expansion which now costs for us 50$ also?

Then what has been the point for me spending the money on gems? If anything they should give the expansion for free for those who have spent the 100$ or more on the Gems to pay for the creation of expansion…

This is just like kickstarter, just with Gems, you pay for the gems certain amount, and you receive posters, wallpapers, music kits, and you get to try the game in Alpha or Beta…. BUT once the game is finished, the company asks you to pay 50$ more to actually play the game, by saying yea you supported us, you paid for the creation of the game, but see now you can buy it for just 50$ don’t worry you can still play the game in Alpha or beta, but with the bugs and what not… but those who buy it now get everything without the bugs all they have to do is make their character from again, totally fair right ?

My personal opinion:
I would not mind paying 20 okay 30$ extra for the expansion since they do need to make profit to keep the company running… because at this point the expansion has already paid for itself 2X or even 3X we will see how many preordered the game…

And I do believe that Anet will put the HoT expansions on the gemstore at a certain time in next couple of months after release. Otherwise they would lose huge crowd of already paying players…

There is no point of getting 100 new players that pay 1$ each if they lose the 100 old players that as well pay 1$ each or even more because by this time they are so deep in the game that they need to have everything…

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Anet needs to rethink their policy, and attitude to those who pay them, because they live on our money, and they need it to survive. Without a paying community they won’t release next expansion or game….