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

If people complaint so much, they could wait a few months, and price would go down to $19.99-29.99 on standard edition - Amazon does plenty of sales and Black Friday is only 5 months later - to which you could get 2 patches which will be great value for your bottom dollars. If you want in NOW, pay full price like everyone else.

$40!? Who the hell is pricing this? I would gladly spend $20-30 on it, but $40? That's a brand new game price. This isn't a new game, it's an expansion of an old one.

Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

$40!? Who the hell is pricing this? I would gladly spend $20-30 on it, but $40? That's a brand new game price. This isn't a new game, it's an expansion of an old one.

Name one mainstream MMO with an expansion that is less than $40 with content that comes close to what HW is adding.
I can name at least three games with expansions priced at or above $40:
EQ1
EQ2
WoW
GW2 will as well, and all of GW1's cost about $50.

And that's before considering none of these games have added THREE new classes in a single expansion in addition to a new race, on top of huge new maps.

Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

$40!? Who the hell is pricing this? I would gladly spend $20-30 on it, but $40? That's a brand new game price. This isn't a new game, it's an expansion of an old one.

I'd love to know where 40 bucks is brand new game price.

Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

$40!? Who the hell is pricing this? I would gladly spend $20-30 on it, but $40? That's a brand new game price. This isn't a new game, it's an expansion of an old one.

I actually kind of hoping you wrote that to play devil's advocate. You would be hard pressed to find a brand new game priced so low at 40. US$59.99 is typically the norm with some variation. $40 dollars for an MMO expansion is very reasonable.

$40 seems about on point. If I recall FFXI expansions were $30, but it's been nearly 10 years since I bought one of those and most games retailed for $50 at that time. Now most games are $60 and Heavensward, even if they are overestimating the content, will definitely have a lot more to do than most $60 games (granted there is also the sub). Sure they make some money selling the expansions, why shouldn't they? But it's not marked up too much. The CE on the other hand, well everyone knows that's primarily to show your support and give them some more money. If all you actually wanted was a dragon figurine, well, you have the internet obviously.