It aint about the time , its an extra £15 roughly i paid to play on the 25th and i cant.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1/277-5729708-5340865?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=guild+wars+2&x=0&y=0

On the 28th in UK we can buy for £35 , to prepurchase its £50 on the link , the same price i paid on ANET site.

So on the 28th people can buy it for £35

Originally posted by Urko
It aint about the time , its an extra £15 roughly i paid to play on the 25th and i cant.

That's quite a lie you put up there, or some local reseller did rip you off. ArenaNet did sell GW2 both pre-purchase and regular edition for the same price.

Originally posted by Urko
It aint about the time , its an extra £15 roughly i paid to play on the 25th and i cant.

Things happen at launch.. Get over it

Look at the currency used please.  Just because it's the same price in some countries, doesn't mean it is in others.

The pre-purchase price was inflated in the EU.

Originally posted by grapevine

Look at the currency used please.  Just because it's the same price in some countries, doesn't mean it is in others.

 

The pre-purchase price was inflated in the EU.

Then you paid the retailer extra, not Anet I guess. 

Nowhere did it specify that for an increased price people would gain acces to the game early. The moment you prepurchased from Anet, you simply bought the game in advance and as A BONUS you would gain headstart acces.

Retailers appearantly sell both versions seperately now, but this does not mean that Anet was ever SELLING HEADSTART ACCESS. You never paid for the headstart, you simply paid more for the same thing. Which is what happens when you buy a game early.

Originally posted by Urko
It aint about the time , its an extra £15 roughly i paid to play on the 25th and i cant.

Good job at crying about something that isn't even true.  I mean seriously who cares, it is launch and stuff happens.  The game is amazing and that is all that matter. 

But as to your statement, you got the 3 day head start no matter what "pre purchase" you bought.  You payed an extra 20 dollars for the digital collectors edition that came with free items.  You will get those.  So you got what you payed for.

The game launched with over a million people online at once.  If you expected perfection, then you are going to be a sad panda.

I can't play as well, but I'm not really worried. Pretty much the only MMO I played that had a relatively smooth start was Rift and even there people were outraged about server queues at first. (Trion added more servers pretty quicky and later they had to merge them - the usual stuff.)

All Im hearing is 

Originally posted by GwapoJosh

Originally posted by Urko
It aint about the time , its an extra £15 roughly i paid to play on the 25th and i cant.

Things happen at launch.. Get over it

You obviously didnt pay extra or your loaded

Originally posted by grapevine

Look at the currency used please.  Just because it's the same price in some countries, doesn't mean it is in others.

 

The pre-purchase price was inflated in the EU.

doesnt matter it is still the same price, no matter if you pre - purchase or buy on release day.  so claiming he paid extra for the 3 days is a lie or someone cheated him into thinking so, who know maybe he borrowed someone´s account for 3 days *shrug* ,  but with the short line he wrote, it looks like he claim everyone paid extra for the 3 day headstart

Originally posted by Reizla

Originally posted by Urko
It aint about the time , its an extra £15 roughly i paid to play on the 25th and i cant.

That's quite a lie you put up there, or some local reseller did rip you off. ArenaNet did sell GW2 both pre-purchase and regular edition for the same price.

It is roughly 15 quid more for the digital pre purchase than it is for the standard boxed edition with 1 day headstart only.

Standard edition £34.97 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guild-Wars-Standard-Edition-DVD/dp/B007YZ5B0I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345897973&sr=8-1

You get exactly the same thing except for 15 quid more you get to play 3 days before everyone else instead of 1. 

Originally posted by inzane3
Guildwars 2 The new  "Error 37". Congratulations....

Not exactly the same thing. D3 fans were angry because they knew they'd be able to play if Blizzard didn't make the game online-only.

GW2, like other MMOs, can't have single player mode. So downtime is regrettable but not nearly as irritating.

As annoyed as I am whinning about it here will do no good. It will be fixed when it's fixed. 

That said i am a bit disappointed though. I had assumed all the stress tests would have anticipated something like this. Clearly they were testing the wrong things. 

Originally posted by Hedeon

Originally posted by grapevine

Look at the currency used please.  Just because it's the same price in some countries, doesn't mean it is in others.

 

The pre-purchase price was inflated in the EU.

doesnt matter it is still the same price, no matter if you pre - purchase or buy on release day.  so claiming he paid extra for the 3 days is a lie or someone cheated him into thinking so, who know maybe he borrowed someone´s account for 3 days *shrug* ,  but with the short line he wrote, it looks like he claim everyone paid extra for the 3 day headstart

Not true, the prices are different.  Just not through ANet.  The retail standard edition is cheaper.  Although not in the US, it would seem.

Some individuals need to learn their country isn't the center of the universe.

Originally posted by Coman

Originally posted by grapevine

Look at the currency used please.  Just because it's the same price in some countries, doesn't mean it is in others.

 

The pre-purchase price was inflated in the EU.

Then you paid the retailer extra, not Anet I guess. 

It was £49.99 pre purchase direct from ANET site here in England.