Update - Thursday, April 23

Well let's do the math shall we?

70 copper coins for a hard mode mission.

7500 copper coins for enough gold coins to get a heavy equip bag.

That's 101 days PER CHARACTER for 20 extra slots of "free" storage.

Oh, you can do the bounty too, that's what, 150 coins? So 1/3 that time...33 days. A whole month to get storage we've been waiting for. ThatA whole month of that extra space already paid for by Anet and partitioned per account. that we can't even use. Just taking up server disk space without any data in it. Congratulations, you've officially turned this game into Grind Wars. Dedicated players are punished for having a lot of stuff that YOU introduced into the game. Either they don't do this grind and suffer, or they do the grind and suffer, or pay stupid amounts of money for junk and suffer.

GG Anet. Tenagg Flametroller is not amused. I think I'll just go ahead and uninstall my 4 year account on the 4th anniversary and move on to something else. HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUILD WARS! WHERE'S ALL YOUR LONG-TERM PLAYERS? OH, THEY'RE JUST OFF PLAYING SOMETHING ELSE. GG.

Hey, 4 years of requests we finally get a stylist. Oh whoops, it costs $10 per change. Maybe for the 8th year aniversary they can add an auction house that costs $20 per use; note: GW2 will not be out by then!

Update is kinda neat but the Zaishen stuff better not be so ridiculously grindy....

IT seems there's a bug with the zaishen coins. It says it should be tradeable through storage, but it's not possible at the moment.

Had to check this myself to make sure it was true. Too bad it is.

big update comes, log on
game is still old and boring, log off

i appreciate how significant this must be for people who still get some excitement out of guild wars and how much work anet must have put into this but for me it only proved that no amount of updates will restore the appeal guild wars once had to me

omg trolling guru though that never gets old

so i went out and bought like 9 extreme makeover packs one for each of my characters omg it was so worth it it was only like 10 dorrars each i think this is a great new business approach for anet and they should add plenty more of these (not-so-)micro transactions that let us add even more to this new and exciting game. (^_^)d

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emo kirby approves

Oh gawd, I wish I could find that link to the somethingawful.com comedy piece about what gamers say when a big update happens and they throw their toys out of the cot.

Well, if World of Warcraft does payment for Character Recustomization, GW might as well should do it.

PS ArenaNet: Daily Missions work in WoW because they're doable by the average PuG. Killing Kanaxai isn't. And if these are the Copper Coin missions, I dread to see the Silver and Gold...

It's not a big update. It's a way for Anet to gouge every last penny out of compulsive gamers for stuff that really isn't worth it. And if you don't buy it, you still have to sit there and LOOK AT IT teasing you. You have to GRIND LIKE HELL to get the "free storage" bags. It's ridiculous. Anet lost my respect...there are games out there that offer updates and content additions and options like these that DON'T charge an arm and a leg or require ten tons of grind. I think I'll go check them out.

The difference is, it costs $10 to change your hair style in GW, and a few silver in WoW. Blizzard got it right, ANet, not so much.

Awesome. A stylist at last. Feels like a dream come true. Very nicely done Anet

Makeover Credits are US $9.99 for 5, or ~ $2 each. Unless I'm mistaken, you can do a complete alteration of all parameters for one credit. $2 seems reasonable to me for that. Haven't opted for a purchase since I'm happy with my choices, but perhaps someone who has can confirm. Wiki has no information on the subject yet.

Don't ignore the $15/month to enjoy your "free" customizations.

And how much more shit does WoW get because of the money Blizzard makes from the subscriptions? Of course that's a whole different (off topic) discussion.

The point is, you shouldn't have to pay real money to change your hair in an online game.

I really, really wish the first thing they said in the hair stylist section was that it came with a fee. One of my personally most anticipated features comes with an additional pricetag. Disappointment ensues.

Completely changing your sex is something I could understand requiring a few more additional out-of-game funs, but to just change my doo???

I'm usually a pretty happy camper in GW, despite some bad skill balance updates and random let-downs...but wow, Anet has blown my mind with this update. I'm pissed. The Grindshen NPCs just want me to do things I've already done...I have no use for a petting zoo...HoM update, who cares...traveling collector, pretty cool...

...but a good portion of the update requires me to get out my credit card. Screw you Anet, you're getting greedy and you're not getting another penny from me. I'm not buying these "extras", and I'm not buying GW2 either if this is what you're going to do with it.

Im SO glad about the stylist. I finally got to redo my ele<3 And fix up my other chars. I think $10 is a reasonable price, although wow lets you pay w/ gold. Either way, i'm glad anet added it.

To be fair, to change your sex in WoW requires a out-of-game fee. On the other hand, changing your hair, hair color, facial hair/accessory is totally in-game and affordable.

Yes, but you're STILL paying for it with your monthly fee.

WAAA stylist!

Edit
Nvm, its pay-to-use. Forget it.

Assuming 12 million active subscribers (it was 11.5 in december if the numbers are to be believed), and considering some people buy several months at a time, let's assume $14 per month, which would come out to 144 million a month or ~2 billion a year.

Agreed. Stuff that is already in the game should be free at the very least. Now if they came out with 50 new hairstyles and asked $5 for you to buy the pack, that would be different.