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My post has nothing to do with mount adoption, not sure why it was merged into this thread. My post is related to the Micro lock on story content.

...and this is a business practice you consider entirely acceptable, slippery slope. Hope digital content consumers are prepared for the costs of the future. The realities of the market is if the consumer is willing to accept inflated prices and financial exploitation it will become the new statues quo. 15 years ago the idea of selling a consumer what we now know as DLC which is often included in the original product (and thus your just paying for an unlock to access said content), or deliberately selling a game with an unfinished campaign or story with the intention of selling the conclusion as an "add-on" would have been seen as criminal. But Alas, the consumer slowly accepted the practice with some very clever marketing I might add and now it is standard practice. Today when you pre-order a game you not only have to pay full retail price but you also have to pay a 40% surcharge if you want to actually be able to finish the game. Something to consider.

Greetings Guild Wars 2 Community, I am making this post out of a desire to express my deep resentment at what I consider a very nasty bit of profiteering at the expense of the community by ArenaNet/NCSoft. I purchased Guild Wars 2 at full price at launch, played for a while but unfortunate real life came along and forced me to put the game aside for a time. Couple years on the first expansion was released, which I purchased shortly after launch at full retail price with the intention to play the game. Unfortunately once again commitments and responsibilities got in the way of those plans and alas, I did not get to play the game. Fast forward to today, I purchase the newest expansion at full retail price and finally I am going to get to enjoy the game and play through all that old content that time had no permitted up until now. I log in and low and behold I find that I have to pay for much of that content again. That's right, Season 2, Season 3, locked and at 200 of NCSofts RMT currency per mission. Apparently this is because I did not play the game on ARENANET's schedule. Though I am as much a paying customer as anyone else. I am forced to pay almost double the game cost because I did not play the game when the developers told me I should play the game. Think about that for a second and tell me that is not truly asinine. That is among some of the worst profiteering I have seen in the gaming industry, worse than the Eve Online micro scandal and various others in my opinion. I purchased a license to the content in your game, and then purchased 2 additional licenses to access the added content to your game, It should not be the prerogative of the company running that game to tell the license holder when he or she can or cannot play that content or suffer a financial fine for all intents and purposes. I just wanted to express my deep resentment at what I consider one of the most blatant examples of exploitative profiteering within the entertainment industry.