39.99 to 129.99 for expansion pshh... yea right!

[KayoZ]

Well if its true that Heavensward has as much content as 2.0 then its well worth the $40 price tag. Ill be getting Digital CE. Not paying +$70 for an art book with a bunch of images ill only see once and which I can probably find most of online through promotional things like ads and desktop backgrounds... and a tiny statue of a random dragon mount. If it was a statue of a well known character (faction leader, scion, Yugiri, etc) id consider it. Then again ive bought 2 CE's with statues so far and they were both disappointing.

$80 to even $100? Maybe. $130? No way. Digital CE gets all the in game goodies plus gives a nice tip in support of SE for a job (relatively) well done.

As an apology, they sold 2.0 with minimal to no profit.

I doubt it was at little to no profit. Yeah they might have lost some revenue when they removed the sub and the fact that legacy players got it free, but $40 for a game isnt that far off. If you think about it ARR was the same as an expansion to 1.0 ... hell, it even follows the numbering (2.0). It was mostly remodeling 1.0 with new stories, and mechanics but most of its costlier elements were already done.