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Originally Posted by Amity and Truth
One campaign every 6 months:
Not knowing prices in the USA or otherwhere but I payed 45€ for it. So if you're keeping up with the updates you're paying 7.5€ a month, only basically "pre charged". What about that is free? Please. Tell me. I'm intrigued to know what you exactly consider free here.
I must admit, the campaign model surely pays off for A-Net. Everytime someone asks about what happened to xyz some random person immediately jumps the thread lecturing him that A-Net is a beneficial company that provides everything for free. Get a grip on reality, you ARE paying a monthly fee so get lost with that "shut up, it's free" argument. GuildWars is honestly the only game where its community will punish itself for asking about the fix for long term bugged things (some of which are still bugged ever since official release).
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Actually, that cost of purchasing the game is pretty much what most games charge. You pay for the content already in the game, not for any future updates or patches that there may be. A company doesn't have to spend their time fixing up a game that they've already released. Now, Guild Wars is a very big game when you buy it. Prophecies has 5 large sections, hundreds of minor quests, 25 storyline missions, along with 6 professions so that you can try the game out with different skills and builds to see what you prefer. This is a lot more than you get with most games, and this is what you pay for up front. Get a grip on reality, you pay for the initial game, every update added to an old campaign after that Anet is giving you for free. It's a lot better than a lot of other online games, where you pay the same price, and maybe get 2 free weeks in game and then have to start paying subscription fees.
I see exactly how you worked out your "monthly fee" for GW, but that reasoning is flawed. The game doesn't just disappear after 6 months. You can still play as much as you like, so by your reasoning, the monthly fee for Prophecies is down to a measly 1.96€ (23 months since release in April 2005, April of 2005 being counted). Of course, this "fee" goes up if you buy more than one campaign, but the brilliant thing about GW is you don't have to buy any more.
Alright, that's my piece for today. I'm tired from correcting posts about how Anet sucks and people are naive when saying there's no monthly fee. If you want a truly free game, go play Runescape, and see how much you enjoy that.
EDIT: Bankai, you are probably right. They are probably taking time out of producing new games to add some of the suggestions that have been made.