new business model for guild wars 2.

you know anet has a business model of releasing an expansion/chapter every 2 years but for gw2 how about we try a new payment method here is my idea.

you have purchased gw2 now 2 years have gone by and they have released an expansion but you don't wanna pay 50 dollars up front to expand your world so instead you'd rather do a layaway type of deal.
its like a monthly fee but not really.

the expansion is released and anet is allowing us to pay as little as 4$ a month for it until we pay it off completely.
we get to play the expansion while paying for it.
you may pause your payment at any time and you may not enter the expansion again until you resume payment.
so you buy the expansion box at the store or micro payment it little by little using surfpin, credit card, or any other payment method.
it should in no way be an obligation to keep paying.

I like it! it makes sense.

That would result in people paying $4 dollars for 1 month. Then just rushing through to get the armor and/or end game weapons. Not a good idea. Hardcore gamers can do in a month what it takes casual gamers a whole year.

they payed didn't they at im sure anet will give the expansions more that just new armor and weapons.
as long as they introduce huge new features like maybe if the expansion offers some type of flying then if they stop paying they lose the ability to do that.
so as long as they offer a crucial feature with every expansion this problem will be avoided.

If you are too poor to purchase a $50 dollar product upfront, you might want to GET A LIFE.

why do you think gw has no monthly fee its a game designed for poor people.
unnecessary flaming will do you no good.

So...your solution is to ADD A MONTHLY FEE?!

Are you serious?

honestly? are you really being serious?

go look up Guild Wars and the ethos behind it and stop spouting drivel you have no comprehension of please

Poor and intelligent with use of money *can* be interchangeable you know.

I have to agree though with the previous posts, they'd have to do a lockout on all campaign/whatever-specific items if you don't have an active payment so as to keep the money flowing in.

How about when you're given like a years noticed that there's going to be an expansion, stick $4 a month in a jar and buy it when it's released. You've heard GW2 is expected to be released sometime late 2009, start saving now if you're really that poor. Although, to be honest, if you're that poor then you should maybe start thinking about cutting out unnecessary expenses, like your internet provider.

I'm gonna go with no on this one. I'll pay for my Gw2 and expansions up front and hopefully never have to pay to access them. (short of the money I give Comcast every month got Cable Internet)

I say still pay upfront.

The hardcore gamers running through the game in a month WILL happen. I say add new expansions and make people pay upfront for them, and once a while, make some stuff like the BMP for us to buy for cheap while waiting for the next expansion.

I very strongly suspect that we're not talking here about somebody being poor here, we're talking about somebody on an allowance. If you're a kid, and your parents give you limited spending money, scraping together $50 could seem like quite a chore (though a chore easily solved by the piggy bank suggested by Cargan).

Anyway, if you ask me it's not a good idea to price items so that children can pay for them on an installment plan.

good for us not for anet. i think the current scheme is more than reasonable. good idea though, but i see no reason why anet would implement

Exactly what i was thinking.
Reminds me of factions headstart lol.

Just save a dollar a week from now until 2009 and you should have $52 saved up!

Ya, how many people would continue to pay $4 a month for GW:EN for 10 months to pay for it? Your "new" business model would bankrupt them.

Agreed.

It isn't like you are refinancing a house or buying a car.

It is $50 people. That's less then one day's work even at minimum wage. If you don't have dispossible income enough for that, then you shouldn't even own a computer that can run GW...

im pretty sure this idea is epic fail b/c ppl will pay 4$ for 1 month and beat the game to get everything. yeah they will have paid the 4$ but that isnt nearly enuff to reimburse the cost of MAKING the expansion. if it was, they would sell the game for 4$.