No need to buy them, Gw2 will feature consistent free content updates and in-game events going forward. Our goal is to make it so you get more from Gw2 for free than you get from a game you pay a subscription for.
On top of a large amount of free bonus content, we will be expanding on offerings in the Black Lion Trading Company going forward, as well as be doing large-scale expansion content down the road.
We’ll cover a lot of the details on the kind of support and plans we have in place over the next month or so on the Gw2 blog and with our press partners.
We do appreciate that you’d like to buy lots of new content, but we’d prefer to give a lot of it to you for free, cause that’s what we think a responsible MMO company does!
You realised you essentially just killed SWTOR…Right?
How so? Youll still have to buy the huge expansion packs with real money. The $15 sub on other MMO’s pays for the infrastructure and wage costs of the developers. In GW2, it seems the servers have been coded cheaply, and ANet seem intent on nickle and diming for almost everything. Trading post, and the fact that they intend to charge you for character slots and even to switch servers says enough.
The general consensus by those not blinded by the marketing spin have already said and proved that the game isnt worth a sub fee. At least not the $15 that other MMO’s charge for more features, a bigger game and more depth.
I realise i could be banned from the forums for this, but it seems that when you provide criticism, even constructive criticism, the posts get locked down pretty fast. But lets not get into that as that can be kept for a new thread.
). I started out with turrets a lot; now I hardly use them, preferring the bomb / grenade kit. A guildmate swears by the elixir gun. I never equip anything other than pistols, but I’ve seen other comments here that tell me rifle or pistol / shield are great builds. One person expressed astonishment that I don’t slot a stun-break (but I don’t).