Guild Wars 2

Outnumbered I am. Guess no one else is bothered by it. Fair enough, its probably just cause I’m subjectively bias. Was excited for new story content, just didn’t expect to have to pay for it. I haven’t played many games that had major sections of story content free at times and priced at others. Its usually either/or, like in priced expansions or small content packages, or free in the form of updates/patches. I guess if its a matter of it not existing anymore cause it costs ArenaNet too much money to maintain then it makes sense. Sorry for venting.

Perhaps the extra character slot wasn’t greedy, although I would point out that most preorder bonuses are limited to cosmetic items, extra out of game items, or buffs which usually wear off in usefulness after some in game time. However, you are right, the extra character slot for people who preordered probably isn’t as big of a deal. But I was under the impression that buying their games was a show of support for a company. I fail to see how not logging in frequently means you should not get major story content that everyone else got for free? I guess you disagree. You’ll keep playing and buying their stuff and I won’t. No big deal.

I don’t know if admins read this but I just wanted to vocalize something here on the forums where maybe they would. I bounce between games, including MMO games, and haven’t played GW 2 in a while, although I did always enjoy the game. I was recently thinking about purchasing HoT and playing again, until I logged in today and found out I would have to pay for season 2 story content, or do a large mount of farming to trade gold for gems. I respect that the game is free to play, and is a quality game. I understand that some elements of game, cosmetic and item wise will have a cost associated with them. However the cost of experiencing major story content that other players got to experience for free certainly deterred me from returning to your game in any meaningful way. It seems to me that if someone purchases a game, any significant story content associated with that base version of the game should not have an extra price on it that only applies to some players. A similar thing happened with the extra character slot for preorders of HoT. Its greedy, and disloyal to your original customer base. And it certainly is not inclusive of any new players that might wish to join.