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Honestly worst week I've had in WvW ever. There don't seem to be ANY large guilds on Giant's Rise in my time zone, and yet we are fighting KOIN, VIP, etc, and the enemy seems to vastly outnumber us in every map in my time zone. We are getting destroyed in both enemy borderlands, and our Home borderlands, and often even in EBG. I'm soloing a decent amount of towers, getting a lot of roaming kills, but I haven't even completed my weekly ad that makes me really frustrated. Also, why are there weeklies i Edge of the mists? like, HOW is that even relevant, there's ever anyone there?

Honestly worst week I've had in WvW ever. There don't seem to be ANY large guilds on Giant's Rise, ad yet we are fighting KOIN, VIP, etc, and the enemy seems to vastly outnumber us in my time zone. We are getting destroyed in both enemy borderlands, and our Home borderlands, and often even in EBG. I'm soloing a decent amount of towers, getting a lot of roaming kills, but I haven't even completed my weekly ad that makes me really frustrated.

Ok, GOOD idea! I remember this being very challenging with Tarkov lol, but maybe GW2 will be easier! Thanks! (These business practices are still a bummer though.)

Good luck getting tax laws changed in any country as a lone private citizen. So in Europe I'm being charged 79.99 Euro +14.99Euro in tax which comes out to $107ish in USD. So $79.99 (what I would pay if I were in Alaska) or $107. I WAS seriously considering paying the fair taxed price, but now that I realize the extend to which they're actually overcharging, I'm leaning against buying now, or even buying at all. They're overcharging because of incorrect currency conversion AND charging tax on top.

So I almost followed through, again. But when I got to check out it was not only charging me $92 dollars or so because it's charging 79.99 euro... but also 14 something tax in euros... So apparently they're not including tax at all in the blanket 79.99 euro price, they're just flat out extorting by refusing to use a fair conversion of the currency. I'm torn, I really want the ultimate edition for the characters slot, gems, etc, and I really want to pre-order... But I will be in Europe until after launch. SO I guess I will wait and buy the cheapest version once I am back home, since I won't be able to get the preoder. Or think about how I feel and if I want to buy the game at all. Unfortunately for me and for Anet and for NC soft... Funny how sometimes everyone loses when someone tries to be greedy.

So, to be specific, my government is the US government, and in the state I live in, Alaska, there is no tax and I would be charged the flat price, 79.99 USD. However, I am not in Alaska, I am not in the US, and I cannot purchase it via "my government". SO it costs $92+tax. I thought I made this clear in my post. Besides, I think you're misunderstanding the point. As several other people have said, this is just greed plain and simple. I can and will insult whoever and whatever company I want for being greedy. No offense to you personally 🙂

I agree. And i didn't mean that the devs could fix it. I meant that they could acknowledge it, and acknowledge the public pressure on their publisher to treat people fairly and be mathematically correct in their transactions. But that would perhaps put their funding at risk I suppose... So i guess i understand why they don't.. That's how greed wins.

Haha, obviously NC soft disagrees with you or they would do it differently. And I disagree with you. No offense of course 🙂

Oh yes, most definitely. If I had that much money I like to believe I would definitely do the morally correct thing and treat people fairly! Then again, I'm not NC soft. Maybe if I was I would already be corrupted

Thanks for your honesty! That makes sense, it's what my intuition was telling me. No chance the devs will ever acknowledge this then I suppose 😒😕

Alaska does not add sales tax to purchases, online or otherwise. Seems like I should just go home already... I think they should consider being more clear about that, instead of advertising one price in USD and then charging another in Euro.

*update* So I tried again. Turns out I can't even seem to log in to the GW2 website while a VPN is active. I can browse while not logged in, but as soon as I try to check out it just says "log in to continue". If I don't use a VPN it works fine, but the advertised price is originally $79.99, and then changes to €79.99 (over $90) when I check out.

Hey Everyone! Happy Holidays, hope you're all having a wonderful wintersday! I want to buy EoD, but I noticed some pricing discrepancy. I have been in Europe for some time now and will likely not be back in the US any time soon, and unfortunately the actual value of what I'm purchasing seems to be different here. So I have one simple question, for the devs really: Why do you not adjust for currency value between USD and Euro? Why financially discriminate against customers in Europe? I'm considering buying EoD Ultimate edition. I was gonna get it for myself for a Christmas present :) I logged on to do so, and realized it costs the same in Euros and in USD! :( Not the same value, just the same numerical digits. $79.99 ≠ €79.99 (just a friendly fyi, ahem, Anet.. they might LOOK the same numerically, but you're gonna wanna check the market currency exchange rate and update your math, it fluctuates.) To make matters worse, they actually advertise $79.99 to me... then when I go to actually buy it they try to charge €79.99! So that's not just ripping off people in Europe, that's lying and false advertising! Now I do realize it's not much money, and you may think I'm making too big a deal, or that i'm rich or whatever since I'm wanting to buy the ultimate edition. But I'm not rich, and while I want to support Anet for making a truly amazing game that I love and continue to enjoy... I just can't stand for this. I mean... what would happen if I try to buy it with Pesos or Rupees... I was curious, I thought it was ridiculous they were charging me and extra $10 in value just because I am in Europe... They wouldn't do that for most other currencies, because if they did they did the ultimate edition of EoD would be valued at about $1.00 in India (approx $79.99 converted to rupees). That thought was slightly entertaining, but Obviously they would never do that. My question is what makes it OK to do it the other way around, and not adjust fairly in a currency that's almost always valued higher than USD$? SO, I VPN'ed myself to India, and checked the price, lo and behold: $79.99, with the exchange rate decided by your card/bank. Same with every other country I have checked outside of Europe, like Mexico, or Brazil. (I tried to purchase with a VPN active, but I got error 106 when I tried to enter my card. I don't actually know if that has anything to do with the fact that I was using a VPN, hopefully just an unrelated error that will sort itself out in time. I will try again. Hopefully it will work eventually. On moral principle, I am not OK with Anet ripping off people in Europe or discriminating in any way. I would like to pay the fair and advertised price, and I would like for everyone to be able to do so.) So my line of questioning continues: wtf? It may not seem like a big deal to some people, or obviously to Anet, but the more I think about this the more crazy it seems. Why charge $79.99 everywhere in the world but Europe, and yet charge €79.99 in Europe? I wonder if it would stay that way if the Euro dropped below the dollar? Why not just charge $79.99 in Europe too? If i'm understanding the bigger picture I'm seeing correctly... it's currently about $10 in value more expensive to purchase EoD ultimate edition in Europe vs everywhere else. The Euro has recently been dropping in value recently, so buying in Euro's is less of a rip off now than it has been. So anyone who bought gems or EoD when the Euro was high got even more screwed! Why have the system like this?! I bought this up in Lions Arch in game, and people didn't seem aware of this fact. Gems are literally more expensive in Europe. Currently "scaled 13% for all your purchases" more expensive, as a helpful fellow pointed out to me in game chat. So I thought people should be aware of it. I am wondering what everyone else thinks. Am I missing something? I obviously have not yet gone through with the purchase, so I hope it works out... but for the moment I find myself very disappointed in Anet and confused as to why they would do this? Considering most people remain ignorant of the fact that people in Europe are paying 13% more for Guild Wars 2 purchases than the rest of the world... I don't really know what to make of it. At the very least they could at least advertise the price correctly and let people know what value they're spending/getting in comparison... At the very best they could simply sell in USD and let the exchange rate adjust for the value fairly in Europe. Like they do for the rest of the world. What's different about Europe, am I missing something as far as convenience or buying power? I am no expert economist or anything, but this seems unfair and dishonest.