New tweet by the devs of Guild Wars 2. This.. this is something I’ve never seen a game company do in my life. In anticipation with the preordering of the Heart of Thorns expansion, if you bought the core game between January 23rd to June 16th of this year, they will REFUND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE!! 😮
So if you paid $60 for the game, they will refund that $60! I.. wow. Just wow. I don’t know what to say, except… how are they making a profit if they’re refunding what you paid for the core game? Are they truly trying to set an example of what video game companies should be; caring for their customers instead of their money?
Note, you must preorder the expansion to qualify for this refund deal.
As sweet and perfect(to me) as this sounds, it almost smells fishy at the same time. It feels too perfect, as I got the game between those dates. Yet why is it just those dates, when veterans had the game a lot longer than that? Why are they giving new players the red carpet?
Surely, they’re going to give the veterans something better, right? … Wrong. If you look at the top where it shows about ‘Veteran Player Appreciation’, they’re going to get another character slot… that’s it. Another character slot. W… why? Again, they should be giving this refund thing to the veterans… not me! I–.. I don’t feel I’m worth having my money refunded for as little as I play that game (which hasn’t been for months as I’m bored with it already) just to get the expansion.
You know what this reminds me of? That thing where Blizzard was giving away those statues for veteran players. I never got one, as I got into WoW a year later. Still, that was something pretty cool for veterans. This… what the devs of Guild Wars 2 are doing, is a joke. A fucking joke, for how they’re treating veteran players.
Yet why should I care, as I’m not a social person (yet play MMORPGs)? Because I have moral values. And I think I’m going to boycott this thing instead of take advantage. The veterans deserve more than a second helping of gameplay (with another character slot). They deserve this refund, not me.
I don’t know how I’m going to boycott this, but I’m going to find a way until the devs give veterans what they deserve, for all the work they put into the game. They are the reason the game is so popular.
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EDIT: Perhaps I was wrong. I was told on the forum, that veterans aren’t getting ‘the short end of the stick’. The character slot alone is quite expensive, which is why it’s fair. The thing is, veterans have another problem (and the reason why this even happened).
Basically, people had thought you don’t have to own the core game to get the expansion, because said expansion comes with the core game. It was confusing people (and it would with me as well) Who fucked this up? This is why this thing is happening, to apologize.
Unless the developer states that it doesn’t require the core game, it does.