After checking through the forum , I am very disappointed on most of the players of Guild Wars 2 ever since the announcement and pre-purchase were released . First of all , many of you (old players) have proclaimed that the price is unreasonable for old players due to the fact that the price is $50 for the expansion with a free core game provided in the package.This is truly an unforgivable way of forcing players to support the devs IF they really meant to do that , but let’s be clear over here … The prices were CLEARLY stated to be sold for new players who are interested in the game itself, since the original price for guild wars 2 standard edition was $39.99 , and now it’s $49.99 .Which means, the expansion alone costs about $10 in this case.That means there will be another standalone edition for the expansion for the older players to purchase sooner or later.
If you’re thinking how sure can I be , it’s pretty obvious. What would happen if they decided to not do anything about the prices ? They will lose lots of old players and fans (excluding brainless fanboys/girls) compared to the quantity of new players buying the $49.99 package which are estimated to be not even more than 5% of the current
population of old players.Of course there will be people who are willing to buy the packages without hesitation and overlook the ‘fairness’ of prices for the old players, but is it confirmed that the expansion that players bought will be on their old account ? Since Gw2 has already mentioned that it will include the core game itself when you purchase it. Meaning , you might have to make a new account in-order to play the expansion.If you do not need to make a new account to be able to access the expansion, then Anet will probably come up with a way to replace the core game for players who have already own an existing corr game with something else.
So why not let all of us have faith in them instead of bragging and complaining about it without actually reading and thinking carefully about the outcome ? It’s very bold of those of you thinking that Anet would actually do this kind of thing to us after so many years of playing this game.
Start giving motivations ! Not criticisms!
“Since Gw2 has already mentioned that it will include the core game itself when you purchase it. Meaning , you might have to make a new account in-order to play the expansion.If you do not need to make a new account to be able to access the expansion, then Anet will probably come up with a way to replace the core game for players who have already own an existing corr game with something else” in the picture you posted he clearly said that the expansion costs $50 and that the core game is free. everyone will have to pay $50 cause this is the price of the expansion. if you can’t understand that it’s a trick, i feel sorry for you. they say that the expansion costs $50 and the core game is free so that they don’t have to sell the expansion separately and sell it at $10. if the core game costs $39.99 that means that the expansion price should be $10: $49.99(HoT+free core game *free. nice bait) – $39.99(core game now) = $10. we have already bought the “CORE” game, why would we want it for free again? do we look that stupid to them? i guess we do. i’m not buying on this trick and certainly won’t be buying HoT until it’s been sold separately from core game for $10 as it should cost. i have already bought the core game for $39.99. i don’t want it again. i don’t have faith in them when they think i’m a $ milking machine like WoW players