Buyer's remorse: Eye of the North

Has anyone request some kind of refund for Eye of the North?

$5 for the Pre-release, 'priviledge of the preview event with limited access'
$39.99 for the game itself ($34.99 if pre-release was bought)

Seems like this weekend is a preview event for Eye of the North and looks free, limited access?
Discounted to half price in less than three months, $19.99.

At the time of the expansion's release there were no cheaper alternative online or locally so I bought it through the online store. I know expansion packs usually go for cheap after awhile but under three months? What frustrates me is not long after its release I went away for seven weeks so from my point of view the expansion was discounted in a few weeks time.

I will be writing a request to have a partial refund of some kind. This was an overpaid for expansion like some other thread said. Don't bring up issues of Bonus Mission Package when that offer was out before Eye of the North options and people had already spent it on character slots or other things.

i agree that GWEN was too expensive for what we got. less than half the content of a normal campaign...no new classes or char slots....its a shame...although i bought it and enjoy it...it seems as if the BMP (which is why i bought it from the online store) will soon be released as a seperate purchase.

It is a lesson for you to think where you spend your money, especially if you don't have much income. Stupid is not the one who asks, but the one who pays.

Do you honestly believe that ANET is going to give you a refund? As with any product, the price typically drops over a period of time. Perhaps the price of Eye of the North dropped a bit faster than everyone expected, but that is something you are going to have to deal with. You paid the price for receiving a product upon release instead of waiting a few months for the price to drop.

When I bought the three campaines, I felt I got my money's worth for all of them. INCLUDING Factions. The expansion though...totally different story. Not worth more than $20, imo. And yes, I feel stupid for paying as much as I did for it.

To be honest, asking for a partial refund because a product has dropped in value is a fairly silly idea.

I mean, can you imagine what the stock market would be like if that happened on a regular basis?

"Fairly static" springs to mind.

You pay more to get things early.

You get the new toys RIGHT when they're available, you get your fun as soon as you can. And you pay for the privilege.

People who didn't want to pay the full price, or who weren't eager enough to buy it on release, or who were just too busy at the time...can get it for a cheaper price, because demand has fallen. This is how basic economics works.

I might as well take a list of all of my old computer games and wander through the bargain bins at the local game store, noting which ones are now only 2 quid each.

And then demand 28 quid refunds for them.

Sure you can write that letter.

Or, you could introduce yourself to economics, and say hello to the real world of money.

I buy a car. Two days later another car dealership (or even the same one), sells the same exact car for 5,000 dollars less to someone else. Will I get 5,000 dollars credit? No, I won't, because in returning my car to buy the other dealerships one, I will end up still paying a lot, and even then, I must return it, not ask for a partial refund.

Alternatively, I bought a surround sound theater the other week from Best Buy. Randomly, the next day, I went in (oh girlfriends and their need to shop for shoes), and saw it was almost 100 dollars cheaper. I got my receipt, haggled with the customer service, and got the difference. But that was only one day's difference and it would have cost them more to restock and resell then a price-down.

You are talking about a digital service (you bought the game online), which giving the partial refund for would be worthless to where you bought it from. Even a hard copy doesn't concern a live retailer (even though you can't typically return a copy in the first place that has been opened).

Add the fact that it is the holiday times, and everything gets a price cut (note only retailers are cutting prices for EoTN, MSRP is still the same), and now you complain? Some common sense here goes a long way. Expansion packs generally drop in price after a month, so a price drop during holidays, three months later, is actually fairly understandable. The difference is negligble for the amount of stress you are placing on it, unless you are a poor teenager who should have been more suave with limited funds.

So sure, you could write that letter. Just realize that coming to terms with reality is a lot easier, even if a little disencouraging. But its how the world works.

Where is Eye of the North $19.99?

If you're talking about the in-game store, look at the prices on everything there....its called a holiday promotion. Everything is 50% off. The price goes back up when the promotion is over. It happens all the time. Especially during the holidays.

You can't go back to stores months later and ask for a refund because they are having a sale on an item you bought in October.

I googled to see who is selling Eye of the North for cheap, and I can't seem to find anyone......hmm....the only people really selling under $29.99 were on Ebay.

Request a refund, but they are just going to laugh in your face.

I find the complaints about GWEN bizarre, it's my favorite GW release after Prophecies and I'm still busy working my way through the dungeons. There's far more content here than most people seem to realize (I've spent far longer playing GWEN than I did Factions, for example), but i guess that won't stop whiners from doing what they do.

As to price drops, that's the nature of PC games. Wait awhile and everything gets cheap, you pay for impatience. In this case, I think it was a good investment, but to each his own I suppose.

i paid 20 pounds for a few new skills and some stupid heroes, woot.

Eye of the North was just a stupid unnecessary marketing gimmick that we all fell for.

Hmm, although I don't have remorse, I do feel a little short-changed.

Can you just close this, tards not understanding what a expansion is. Look at other games expansion's: Oblivion = New islands , CoD = New missions. GW:EN gives you more content than you think so get over it.

I'm a 34 year old professional who makes a pretty good income, so $40 doesn't hurt, I don't feel ripped off.

I'm more disappointed at the lack of content, how it seems half done, half realized. So many recycled armor skins, there are only about 3 complete dungeons worth of design, the rest is just the same rooms rearranged. Disappointed at the product and the development. Was hoping for more.

I already know it's been some time and this is about this weekend too.
Does it hurt to try or have you all given up? That road easier to take for some.

Amazon had it for a week or so at $19.99. I make good money but that doesn't mean it's okay for me to pay for something which people are getting to get for free.

Don't spout economics when you're just learning it kiddies.

Well, I imagine you're perfectly entitled to the free preview weekend too, you know.

You got access to it earlier, and you got the BMP if you bought it online.

It was definitely priced in a "gouge away" zone where they knew people who had all the chapters would want it even if it was a bit of a rip.

Also I'd say, be careful about buying it right now until they decide what to do with the bonus mission pack access. It would suck to buy it now and then they decide in a week to bundle it with GW:EN... it's much better than the stuff in GW:EN.

Im very happy with the content I recieved from eye of the north and for the money I spent on it.

No complaints or refund requests from me.

I agree with you 100%

I thought it was a really good value, new skills, lots of dungeons, lots of story parts that fill in a few blanks, sets up GW2, new baddies and new quests to do. I bet if you did everything in gwen it would almost take as long as say factions. Of course i got the BMP wiht it too which is nice.