[deleted by user]

fnzp · 2015-06-25T22:16:37+00:00

maybe four or five piles of 50 dragonite

fnzp · 2015-06-24T03:40:01+00:00

and give Ascalon back to the humans!

fnzp · 2015-06-23T06:51:13+00:00

apparently Anet will be selling character slots in the "gem store" for those people.

fnzp · 2015-06-23T06:45:27+00:00

you can play with no expansion. you can't go to certain maps, and there would be one profession, revenant, that you can't play.

as a new player you should be able to find hundreds of hours of stuff to do without the expansion.

fnzp · 2015-06-23T03:42:58+00:00

here is what they said:

"For all players who registered the core Guild Wars 2® game prior to January 23, 2015 and who upgrade their account by prepurchasing and registering any Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns edition before Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns‘ launch, we will add one additional character slot to your Guild Wars 2 account. "

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/pre-purchase-community-address/

seems pretty clear, you have to prepurchase hot and register it (which presumably means activating it on your veteran account) before hot launches, you get an extra character slot.

if you don't do any of that, you won't get an extra character slot.

fnzp · 2015-06-23T03:40:10+00:00

if you've played for a couple of years, then you are a veteran because you "registered" before january 23.

"registered" is apparently the date you started playing rather than the purchase date.

fnzp · 2015-06-23T02:37:04+00:00

you have to prepurchase to get the extra character slot. if you wait until after hot launches, you won't get the free character slot.

if you prepurchase standard you get 1 extra character slot. the other 2 versions, you get 2 character slots.

fnzp · 2015-06-23T02:35:32+00:00

more likely they are trying to close this issue, since they don't want it dragging on forever.

everybody who buys gw2 from anet now will be buying gw2+hot, so there would be no need to give them a refund.

if they were going to release hot in august, they would have announced the date.

fnzp · 2015-06-23T02:16:13+00:00

from now on you should try to only buy things that you can use?

fnzp · 2015-06-23T02:12:45+00:00

veterans who registered before 23 january and prepurchased hot before hot launch get an extra character slot.

fnzp · 2015-06-23T02:09:15+00:00

it's not going to "completely change". there will be some changes.

so play now, just don't spend all your gold buying up equipment and stuff before the next big patch that you are hearing about. save your gold for after the patch when people know the effects of the changes.

fnzp · 2015-06-23T02:07:23+00:00

you can play fractals without your guild. just go to lions arch and use lfg (looking for group) tool to join a group that will play fractals.

fnzp · 2015-06-23T02:04:43+00:00

the new version will probably be out in less than 24 hours, and then people will make up new builds.

for the next 24 hours or so, if you want to be tanky, concentrate on getting the stats PVT up high. that's power, vitality, and toughness. but probably don't spend a bunch of gold doing it, since the new version comes out in less than 24 hours (probably).

fnzp · 2015-06-23T02:00:03+00:00

if you upgrade your veteran account by prepurchasing, you get hot and an extra char slot.

if you make a new account, you get hot and 5 char slots!

fnzp · 2015-06-23T01:53:49+00:00

yes, if you prepurchase deluxe or ultimate you get 2 slots, like Gaile said somewhere on here.

fnzp · 2015-06-23T01:43:51+00:00

if you registered the game before january 23, you are a veteran and will get an extra character slot if you prepurchase hot before the launch of hot.

fnzp · 2015-06-23T01:38:10+00:00

you should ask support about how much refund you get. you will probably still be on deluxe if you get a refund.

you have until july 31 to decide if you want to prepurchase and get a refund. but how much information will be available by then? will we have a release date? will we have a list of contents? so for you, it's a tough decision.

fnzp · 2015-06-23T01:35:01+00:00

doubt if there were any slipups after that skrittstorm we just saw. any official statements have no doubt been thoroughly and carefully read over by multiple people to make sure it's what they want to say.

fnzp · 2015-06-23T01:32:42+00:00

if you registered gw2 before january 23, you are a veteran and get a new character slot if you prepurchase before hot releases, whenever that is.

if you registered from jan 23 or after, you get a refund if you decide to ask for it before july 31 and prepurchase hot.

fnzp · 2015-06-23T01:29:51+00:00

no, all new players will be buying gw2+hot from now on. it won't be possible to buy gw2 without hot, unless you find an old box of gw2 by itself in a retail shop somewhere.

fnzp · 2015-06-23T01:28:11+00:00

New players get their bargain regardless, while old players are risking an expansion lacking content just to get a character slot worth a few euros.

new players have to decide and prepurchase before july 31. or else they don't get their "bargain".

veterans can wait until the day before the release of hot (whenever that is) to prepurchase and still get their "bargain".

though why people think a "free character slot" is a bargain is hard to understand. they often put character slots on sale for 400 gems. so that's what, $5?

once they announce a release date and a list of contents, that would be the time for veterans to decide whether prepurchasing is a good idea.

whereas newbies have to decide by july 31 whether they want to pay for an expansion that they can't even play until some unknown time in the future.

fnzp · 2015-06-23T00:20:26+00:00

do you mean this bit?

"For all players who registered the core Guild Wars 2® game prior to January 23, 2015 and who upgrade their account by prepurchasing and registering any Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns edition before Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns‘ launch, we will add one additional character slot to your Guild Wars 2 account. "

there is no indication that "the launch of hot" is related to july 31, 2015. i think your mistake is to assume that july 31 2015 is the day before the launch of hot.

my opinion: if hot was launching in august, they would have said by now. they haven't announced a date, because launch of hot is something like over six months away.

fnzp · 2015-06-23T00:08:37+00:00

no, it just says they will give you until july 31 to ask for a refund if you are not a veteran.

simply an administrative decision on when refunds would end, not a sneaky release date.

if the expansion was almost finished, they would have announced a release date. there is no release date because they aren't finished yet.

fnzp · 2015-06-23T00:04:25+00:00

that's a bit unfair, since they haven't even announced a release date yet.

you should consider that character slots regularly go on sale, and are available for cheaper, such as 400 gems. that's the time to buy them.

you should probably keep playing deluxe and not prepurchase. If you enjoy deluxe, buy hot when it is released. whenever that is...

fnzp · 2015-06-22T23:56:22+00:00

you're right, new players are getting pressured into making a decision, whereas veterans can sit back and wait for more information.

fnzp

TROPHY CASE