Cisaro.3169

I didn't know I wanted them because I didn't know about them - that's the issue. I'm not begging for LS content for free, I'm letting them know my CX was poor because they didn't give me visibility on what I should buy upfront. There are a lot of responses from people that either hasn't read the post properly or haven't got the point I was trying to make, if that's the latter it's my issue and I'll improve the original post. Your comment, however, is completely unhelpful but thank you for your time.

How would you change things, without hurting ANet's bottom line?Charge more for the expansions? Charge veterans for the Living World too? Charge a subscription and include the episode as part of that? There aren't all that many alternatives and each alienates someone. I think I've already said this - it's not a cash issue it's visibility on content issue. Just tell me upfront or increase the price and throw it all in so there are no surprises.

Expecting new players to gold farm after playing content so they can go back and play content to give the content they've just played context is a ludicrously inelegant solution Not really if gold farming includes actually playing the content you already have access to. ". Going completely conservatively and just doing SW farming , which is easy to do, its sth like 4 hours a day. And this reduces a lot if you are skillful in the game and know how to do fast t4 runs and dungeons runs or raid full clears. And you can mix by adding istan and HoT metas for some variety." I think you proved my point about expecting new players to gold farm is silly. Not to mention it's terrible game design.

Again my complaint has nothing to do with price - please read my post carefully, you're arguing against a point I've not made.

Expecting new players to gold farm after playing content so they can go back and play content to give the content they've just played context is a ludicrously inelegant solution

Yes! Please do not skip this message OP. You can buy the season bundle packs for much less than individual sales. Hi there, This doesn't address the core issue, a lot of people seem to be confused my complaint isn't about the price or having to pay for the content, it's about not having the clarity up front when I bought the game. I expected to be able to play through the game chronologically - a lot of people here have posted around ways of buying/waiting for items to go on sale ect ect (Also i got the number 3400 form all the 17 episodes I need across the playable 3 seasons at 200 gems each) This is not knowledge a new player has, or should have to have in order to play the story. I've just bought what i perceive to be the game yet when I start the heart of thorns expansion i have 0 context given to me as I don't have season 2 included. I don't view the living world as DLC as it's not an expansion after the main story its content that gives the expansions I've bought relevance. I just wanted to the clarity of the Living World content and what it was so that I could have bought it all neatly up front. My purchase journey went like this: -Free Game - Both Expansions - It would make more sense if I was informed to go like this: Free Game - Living World Season 2- HoT- LWS3 - PoF

'You can buy the gems with gold' This is unlikely to be attainable for most new players, myself included, I don't have the gold for that so I couldn't even start at season 1 if I wanted to. What I do have is the willingness to pay for the content if it was clearly laid out as an option when i bought the full game.

Hi there, I've just purchased GW:2 and both expansions, I'm a GW1 player and it just seemed like the right time to get back into the franchise, i've also bought a few friends from other MMO's with me, and we're all loving the world & the combat. Considering i'd just bought what i considered the 'whole game' (main game is free & then the two expansions) I don't think it's unreasonable for somebody buying both expansions to assume they can play the story line of the game chronologically in its entirety. I went to start with the living world, I couldn't play season 1; fair enough I thought - it was exclusive and owing to the type of content produced for it retrospective playing of it is impossible. I like the fact there was a cinematic of it, though this could be expanded on. Luckily the content creators on Youtube for this game are fantastic. I went to start the story - at the accessible start - in Season 2 of the living world and then I realised that i'd need to purchase 17 episodes individually to play the story properly to give the expansions i'd paid for the proper context. So 3400 gems required, i'd need to buy 4000 to get that so around £40 on gems. I really would not have minded buying the gems upfront when I purchased the game if I was given clarity of the fact I needed these to progress through the story naturally, though the price of them is rather penalizing considering a single currency for both content and vanity objects seems a bit jarring. Really looking forward to playing the story, the world is stunning and i'm loving my experience so far. I just found this experience awful. Perhaps there were ways I could have found out this information and avoided this upset but they were not as clear. I'm aware this is likely PEBCAK but it seems like a quick win for you guys to sell more content and new players not to feel hard done by just by letting new players know. Thank you for your time,CharliePS. Why can't I use abilities while jumping? It would be fun.