Purchase More Character Slots!

Yep people will always find something to complain about

Now what we need:

Anet NEEDS to sell bundle packs of Campaigns 1 and 2 together!!!

with special stuff

Especially since they announced it before everyone bought Factions, rather than after.

So is Sweden's welfare / tax system. The analogy holds up.

Ok. I read the first 6 pages of this thread, and it all seems like the same argument. My .02

All the slots on an account get access to the new chapter when the key is added, then $10 is rather cheap compared to adding another account. Think about it, at Chapter 3, you will have 8 characters at a price of $150 (provided you got all three at $50 each). Now you can add 8 more slots with access to all the same content for $80. That's near half price!

hell shit yeah.
about freakin time. I must of deleted over 20
different characters. all with at least 3 sets of 15k
armor plus other goods. I'll pay real money for the
extra slots any time/day.

Great idea, but I'm wondering how we'll pay for the slots.. Of course, through the internet, maybe credit/debit card, paypal, but I'd like to see what WoW or CoH/CoV has: a card that you can purchase at an electronics store.. You know, because some of the less fortunate people don't have credit cards..

It would stink if you invested your time AND money to buy like 4 extra slots and have 10 slots(including Factions), and then get banned. $40 down the drain.

Ok, some of my comments may be redundant. Forgive me for that. I quit reading the entire thing because it is growing too quickly for me to keep up with tonight.

I would suggest you don't compare the value of this game on a chapter-to-chapter basis. Instead compare what we get from the developers against other online games. Other games charge a heck of a lot more for really weak value added services and the amount of game content from each expansion is typically mediocre.

For the money the content we receive is excellent. The Sorrows Furnace addon was free. Each chapter is not more of the same but an attempt to add a new play element to keep the game fresh. They pay a great deal of attention to keeping the game balanced. Many new features, such as observer mode, have not been associated with the purchase of new chapters. My guess is the auction house will be free to all players.

I think they are doing a great job of trying to appeal to the entire community as much as possible. Being a casual player I do not think I will love some of the primary elements of Factions (alliances/elite missions). If not I may not play Factions much but I feel confident the next chapter will then cater more to my play style. I have been part of several online gaming communities and none of them have put as much effort into their members/customers as we have seen from ArenaNet.

As for this particular issue:

1 – There are system resources associated with each character account. By making us pay for extra slots they cut down on unused garbage slots, that would be used if they were free, eating those resources and receive a little compensation for the extra efforts. While each slot probably doesn't eat much in the way of resources if they gave away too many slots it would add up dramatically.

2 – They gave the community exactly what most of us were asking for and for listening I say thank you ArenaNet.

Now my only complaint: if I can't get a freakin collectors edition so I can have the extra dances I'm gonna be ticked.

omg woot i want the new slots now !!!!

I'm going to clarify this, for the people having a complex about not having continuous free content updates.

Guild Wars is pay once - play forever, but if you want new content you have to pay for it when it becomes available.

Games like WoW are pay once, pay monthly to both have access and to get content updates. Pay again for any significant updates they decide to make an expansion pack.

Two mutually exclusive content delivery methods that are equal in fairness. Go with the one you personally prefer.

But for reference, skip ahead to the next week when Factions will be here. It will have been an entire year since Guild Wars was originally released. Considering you bought Factions, you paid ~$100 for all the content/features they've been able to work on. If it was WoW-style, it would have been at least ( $30-50 + 12(~$15) ). ~$100 is much more fair than $200+ in my opinion.

But your personal preference may differ.

This is not a political or a place to compare countries thread, please try to keep this on-topic. Thank you!

All you really need is an ATM card with a Visa or MC Logo on it....

I was using it as a metaphor. I see that as being on topic.

This is an excellent idea. Everyone wins.

They'll probably do something like PayPal. It would be nice, though, to be able to buy a card down at your local video game store with an access key of some kind that does nothing but add another character. I guess that'd be kind of like xbox live, where you can pay per-month, or buy a card with a year's access, except you don't have to pay per-month for GW characters. Somewhat bad analogy.

Sure, you've invested your time and money to get say fissure/15k/new factions armor across 10 characters, and if you break rules and get your account banned, you probably deserved it. Don't want to lose your time/monetary investment? Don't break rules.

Thus why they added the 10$ per new slot was added..people were realizing that 2 Accounts 50+50 = 100$ (Talking about initial prices not after it becames 20-30$ at Wal-Mart, etc.), and 2 expansions 50 + 50$ = 100$. Which is effectively 200$ and quite on par with the 220-250$ you would have payed for other games with the Pay as you pay system. (I don't think it was ever Anets intent for it to end up that way, but I think they underesitmated how many people would go out and buy 2 accounts)

Thus a combination of people requesting and people realizing it actually wasn't that much cheaper, is why in my opinion ANet went with the character slot route. Plus, 4 more character slots is 40$ or effectively 10-20$ more than just buying a second account. Which is also a plus for Anet in the profits category.

My post had nothing to do with hacking files. My post was talking about doing another clean install to another directory, hence you should have another set of lines in your registry pointing to the second install of GW, assuming that GW lets you choose where to install said files, which it does

WoW has no "buy stuff outside of the game from us for use ingame" at this time and may never have it, just like GW currently. It is sony that started offering ingame items for real cash.

Sorry but I disagree with you. Extra slots in any game are not "needed" they are all a convience. The more slots a game has for characters the more that people are likely to experiment and play all sorts of classes/builds, hence it adds longevity to a game.

Now I do agree that having all slots on one account is more convenient then installing another copy of the game.

As to Anet adding other purchasable things ingame...we'll all just have to wait and see, however they are setting a precidence that they can follow up on/add on to. I remember sony/verant doing the same thing. First it was name changes, then character>server transfers, now its ingame items...etc..

That is a nice idea, though we'll have to wait and see what they come up with for the storage issue. Gaile already said they were looking into something that is supposed to be a free update for everyone.

My question is, have you ever done it before? From what I've read, it seems like the GW client checks not only for a pre-installed version of itself, but also if you try to run it twice it checks to see if it's already running. Therefore, you would have to change the name of the process to make sure it doesn't see itself. I have not, however, done this myself, I'm talking only from stuff I've read, so feel free to tell me that you've done it differently.

when you complain about how apparently unfair a special offer is, you clearly need education.

something just about everyone has wanted for how long(?) is offered, and all some people can do is complain about the price. i'm sure 10$ for infinite PLAY TIME - on now 2 chapters of CONTENT + access to one account + all professions + future chapter merges. for a mesley 10$ its a STEAL

ITS A STEAL.

i hope none of the people who are complaining have payed for WoW... that must have been hell on earth for you... 15$ PER month for how many characters can you make on diff servers, when you can only play ONE at a time? least this way you KNOW what your paying for, and can keep it forever, for one payment at a time, when YOUR good and READY of finally getting a job for some pocket change... come on... geez.

Did you ever consider that it isn't Anet fronting that money but their publisher/owner NCSoft, who happen to have quite a few pay by month mmorpgs out, amongst other products that support them. For all we know Anet/GW is a write off for NCSoft.

It is very possible that NCSoft is supplying all the bandwidth as they are already running multiple mmorpgs, so what is another one tossed into the pile?

Bet you if when you merged factions with current guild wars and got a total of 8 slots and more storage you'd hardly hear a single peep about being able to buy more character slots.

Hardly, though it might stop them for a while. Then people will start talking about the next campaign, and how they need new character slots because they don't have any free ones left. And how they need more storage because they're packrats and can't fit many new items in their inventories.

Hello campaign 4, and my 16 character slots!!

Wow....... this has stirred up quite the controversy hasn't it. i cant believe this many ppl would complain about something that is so great. Anet has given us nothing but the best, i mean i have never enjoyed a game as much as i have enjoyed gw. i remember when i first hit lvl 20 with my first char i was so friggin happy. then i beat the game and again i was friggin happy. happier then i have ever been apon the completion of a game. and i am sure many others were too. and now some of you are going to complain about something that we the gw players have asked for. wow some ppl out there are either really cheap and dont want to pay someone for something they dont have to give us and make us go buy a new account. or they all just need something to whine about. i cant remember who said it but someone on the gwg staff needs to think about making a whining forum. (thnx to whoever came up with that idea). its the best idea i have ever heard of. well i am done ranting and i hope some ppl here are done complaining about something that the good ppl of anet are giving their customers because the customers asked for it.

Not possible. NC Soft charges for the software. Whether they charge a fee or not, it doesn't qualify. Now if NC Soft gave away Guild Wars it would be a different story.

I am already laughing at the GW's not so great performance in many markets.

While Asia gets some fun stuff, ANet is milking Eu and Am.

The jokes on us.

This post made no sense... can someone please elaborate?

Well as I see it, if they waited till after factions people would get very p**sed if they didnt merge their accounts then figured out that they couldve bought more character slots.

I bet Anet is confused if some of you don't like this.

Group of Players A: Can we buy more character slots.
Anet: You know what I GET IT TO YOIU BY SUMMER!
Group of Players B: NNNNOOOO PPPPPLLLL WILL HAVE OVERPOWERED ACCOUNTSSS!!! !!!!!!!!
Anet: WTF? Huh? What do you guys want?

Nothing changes for me. I have 2 Prophecy accounts. I will have 2 Factions accounts attached to each Prophecy account. God forbid I lose one account for any of the many reasons you can, I'll still have another.

Still, this move just goes to show you that A-Net listens to its customers. Good job.

Will there be a limit on the number of characters you can purchase?

I think the idea of purchasing extra character slots is awsome, 10 bucks sounds reasonable enough to me also. I am still jonesing over the fact that I dont have to pay a monthly fee, and I am having fun playing witch is the whole point of it all.... having fun.

Hmm no idea if the client actually checks to see if it is running already in memory from a second copy, or if it can differentiate from a second copy. Seeing as I don't have a second copy I can't really check

I'm buyin 3, maybe 4
woooooo

edit: I didn't feel like reading all that stuff

why are people complaining?

About time, but I don't understand why they didn't do this months ago to make some cash, as now people will just wait until factions anyway. Of course, they might be needed in future, but still.

This community is really hard to please. SF update was "dull and late", wintersday event was "too short, boring quests too". And those were free updates which ANet had no obligation to do. Sometimes I think people have been spoiled by the active updates and lack of monthly fee. They want it all, they want it now, and they want it for free.

This feature is 100% optional and requested by the community. If you don't want to spend $9.99 on it, fine, play with your current slots. But why fart in ANet's general direction for providing something that a lot of people wanted? Because it's not free? Contrary to popular belief they aren't running a charity here.

All that's on the CD is the client, copy-burned onto every CD they make. There shouldn't be any difference in copies. It's getting a bit late for me, I'll see about running 2 copies without hex editing tomorrow. Just for grins and giggles, I might even borrow my brother's CD and install it to a different directory, if it'll let me install twice.

You're exactly right, and yet people still think ANet owes them freebies. It's rather sad, actually.

What I really don't understand are the people saying that A.net is ripping off returning customers with the merging of accounts.

So for all you necro's in Cantha who can't find a group cause they want a spiteful spirit nec, I'll just laugh at you and join the group in your place.

Chapter 1=
chapter 1 story
chapter 1 locations
chapter 1 skills
chapter 1 weapon skins
chapter 1 armors

Chapter 2=
chapter 2 story
chapter 2 locations
chapter 2 skills
chapter 2 weapon skins
chapter 2 armors

You know what both games come with? The hard work and dedication from the best VG team on the planet. My hat is off to Arena.net, thank you for this great game and the continued updates.

I think it's great that they are implementing player community ideas. It definately shows that they not only listen, but that the game is becomming "for gamers, by gamers"!

Aside from that, I think $10 for ONE slot is just too much for my tastes. I didn't like that idea when it was tossed around the forums, and I don't like it now. Then again, I never complained about slots, and will more than likely not buy any, but that's just me. It's great that there's an option.

Offering more stuff like this for a nominal fee is a decent idea, as long as it doesn't go overboard. There should never be an extra charge for a blantant advantage over other players. What they've done with the CE, special editions, and preorders are all within the acceptable, non-advantage area. Keep up with that, people like to spend money on perks.

We asked for it, Anet gave it to us. Thanks for listening to your players, Anet! Finally I can move all my chars to one account and stop that time consuming and tiresome moving of items between accounts. Woot!

By the way, I would also like to express my support for the idea to add one more row of storage space for every slot purchased. Maybe you guys could consider that idea...

To the whiners complaining about the price: It's free market. Buy or don't buy , the decision is yours. But stop that stupid whining, thank you! You can safely assume that Anet set that price according to what a significant portion of their target audience is willing to pay (ALL prices are made that way). If you don't need more slots, fine, it's not your problem anyway, then. If you are not willing to pay that price for a slot, that's your decision. I am not willing to pay the price for a Ferrari, but I don't write whine-mails to them, too. I look at that car, I wonder how anyone could ever be willing to shell out that much money for a car, but that's it. Obviously they have enough people paying their prices to keep them in business...

Of course I would have liked to pay only $5 per slot and not $10, too. Of course I would have prefered to have gotten 10 more slots for FREE. Wouldn't we all? Unfortunately it's not the way the economy works, so get over it.